Olga Simek

Dr. Olga Simek is a technical staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at Lincoln Laboratory. For the past ten years, she has been leading projects, conducting applied research, and publishing in the area of text analytics, social networks analysis and crowdsourcing.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, she worked in industry for a number of years. She held leading positions at several companies where she used machine learning to design and build state-of-the-art predictive risk models for global financial risk, market demand estimators, and fraud detection. She also held positions at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Simek received a BA degree in mathematics and computer science from Eastern Washington University, an MA degree in mathematics from Western Washington University, and a PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Arizona.