Associate Director, Workforce, Development, and Health Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Physical Scientist; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Emmi Yonekura is the associate director of the Workforce, Development and Health Program in Project AIR FORCE and a senior physical scientist at RAND. She has applied her analytical skills to a research portfolio related to military readiness and Air Force and Space Force training and operations. She has led projects for U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and Department of War sponsors involving combat sortie generation proficiency; modeling and simulation skills and capabilities; advanced learning technologies including live, virtual, and constructive systems; readiness gap assessment in the context of a peer conflict; personnel roles in the Space Force; and thresholds for mission inoperability. Yonekura received a Ph.D. in atmospheric science and a B.S. in applied mathematics from Columbia University, and she conducted her postdoctoral research at Princeton University.
Ph.D. in atmospheric science, Columbia University; B.S. in applied mathematics, Columbia University
