Alison O’Connor Bio
Alison O'Connor is a Principal Data Scientist at QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI & ML Centre of Excellence. As an engagement manager, she leads global MLOps teams, working across industries to build, productionize, and cost-effectively maintain accurate predictive models used to automate decision making.
Before joining QuantumBlack, Alison spent over five years working for Charles River Analytics, an R&D US Department of Defence contractor. Working with the US Army, Navy, NASA, and DARPA, her projects covered a wide range of areas, including predictive health maintenance, power reliability, aviation safety, missile defence, weather forecasting, and operational planning. She employed machine learning and probabilistic modelling to predict states in various environments.