Dr. Katie McConky received her B.S and M.S in Industrial Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. in Operations Research from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Prior to joining the RIT faculty, Dr. McConky worked as a research scientist for CUBRC Inc. for seven years. While at CUBRC she gained a broad range of experiences as a research scientist on military situation awareness applications and intelligence community data mining projects, as well as the opportunity to be the lead data scientist for energy data analytics start-up TROVE.

Dr. McConky is using her experiences working with 6 different utilities on load forecasting, demand response optimization, energy efficiency program optimization, and energy theft detection to develop a research program focused on sustainability in the energy space. Of particular interest is the use of smart meter data to develop optimal residential and industrial demand side management strategies.