Katie McConky
Department Head
Katie McConky
Department Head
Education
BS, MS, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Bio
Dr. Katie McConky received her BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering 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 Predictive Data Science.
Dr. McConky combines her love of operations research, data science and machine learning to solve complex problems in today’s society. Her work spans developing deep learning models to solve combinatorial optimization problems to energy demand forecasting and emissions aware demand side management. Her work has been applied to uncertainty aware rover mission planning on remote planets, optimization of unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle routing, and optimization of kidney exchange programs. Her work has received funding from a number of agencies including ONR, AFRL, NASA, NYSERDA, and DARPA.
To see more about Professor McConky visit her website.
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In the News
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August 28, 2024
Faculty-researchers Katie McConky and Amanda Bao named ELATES Fellows
Two faculty-researchers at RIT have been selected to the Class of 2024-2025 of Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) program, designed to promote women in academic STEM fields and faculty allies of all genders into institutional leadership roles. -
October 2, 2023
Kate Gleason College of Engineering appoints two new department heads
Brian Landi and Katie McConky have been named department heads of the chemical engineering and industrial and systems engineering programs in the college. Both bring extensive teaching, research, and company experience to the academic leadership positions in the engineering college.
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May 27, 2021
Micatu Inc. donates high-tech optical sensors for campus microgrid
Micatu Inc. donated its groundbreaking Gridview optical sensors to RIT for a new campus learning lab. The equipment allows faculty and students to monitor renewable integration and manage the addition of distributed energy resources onto the campus microgrid.
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May 20, 2024
McConky earns Rochester Engineering Society recognition
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October 11, 2023
Landi, McConky named department heads in engineering college
Featured Work
Scalable Operations Research for Transplant Exchange
Katie McConky
Dr. Katie McConky and her collaborators at SUNY Buffalo are investigating how deep learning and hybrid learning approaches can be used to improve the process of matching kidney donors to recipients in...
Managing Exponential Decision Spaces
Katie McConky
Managing exponential decision spaces is helping the Office of Naval Research look at innovative ways to efficiently solve large combinatorial optimization problems through the fusion of machine...