Dahan’s research interests are in combinatorial optimization, game theory, and predictive analytics, with applications to service operations management and disaster logistics. His primary focus is on developing strategies for improving the resilience of large-scale infrastructures — particularly transportation and natural gas networks — in the face of correlated failures such as security attacks and natural disasters.

He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in computational science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.Eng. and B.Eng. from the École Centrale Paris, and a B.S. in mathematics from Paris-Sud University.