Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Thengvall is a seasoned leader who has executed projects of all sizes for government and commercial clients. He enjoys leading a talented team at OptTek that provides innovative software solutions to complex real-world problems.
Dr. Thengvall has extensive experience solving complex problems in the commercial and government spheres where he has designed and implemented software that embeds state-of-the-art approaches from the fields of simulation optimization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, mathematical modeling, real-time optimization, transportation and scheduling, and agent-based and discrete-event simulation.
He earned his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Thengvall has taught at the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska and at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and holds multiple patents related to software and optimization.