Lt. Col. David Beskow is a doctoral candidate at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Previously, he served as an infantry leader in the 82nd Airborne Division and the 4th Infantry Division. He also was an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and an operations research and systems analysis analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He is a West Point graduate.