Karen O’Brien is a senior principal data scientist and AI/ML practice lead at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. In this capacity, she leverages her 20-year Army civilian career as a scientist, evaluator, ORSA, and analytics leader to aid DoD agencies in implementing AI/ML and advanced analytics solutions. Her Army analytics career ranged ‘from ballistics to logistics’ and most of her career was in Army Test and Evaluation Command or supporting Army T&E from the Army Research Laboratory.

She was a physics and chemistry nerd early on, but now uses her M.S. in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University to help her DoD clients tackle the toughest analytics challenges in support of the nation’s Warfighters. She is the co-Chapter Lead of the Women in Data Huntsville Chapter, a guest lecturer in data and analytics graduate programs, and an ad hoc study committee member at the National Academy of Sciences.