Michael McCourt is the head of engineering for the SigOpt team within Intel, developing computational statistics and AI tools to power efficient model development and experimental design. His team is responsible for both the research into novel methodologies and their stable and robust implementation and deployment in our enterprise SaaS platform. He did his undergraduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, graduate work at Cornell, and postdoc at CU-Denver, all in Applied Mathematics.  He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and a text on kernel methods in mathematics and statistics.