Catherine Ordun
Senior Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

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Catherine Ordun is a senior data scientist at Booz Allen focused on growing AI capabilities for biosurveillance and biodefense clients across the public health and defense markets. She specializes in leading teams to develop machine learning models for computer vision, natural language processing, and time series forecasting and collaborates with modern software and Agile development teams to build environments for deployable models. Over the course of her career at Booz Allen, Catherine has served clients in the intelligence community, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the US Army, and the Department of Treasury. The breadth of her experience is reflected by the diversity of the data, use cases, and client requirements across these organizations, ranging from leading prototypes that combine computer vision and robotic process automation at the Department of Treasury to predicting hostile work environment risk at the VA to developing time series disease forecasting models for the DoD and developing cognitive search capabilities for the US Army. Recently, Catherine has been leading a team of data scientists to develop prototype sentiment modeling on images and is working to help lead investments in model reproducibility and interpretability at Booz Allen. She’s passionate about mentoring junior talent and promoting education for the firm’s Women in Data Science group. Previously, Catherine worked for the CDC, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the US intelligence community. She holds a BS in applied biology from Georgia Tech, an MPH in environmental and occupational health from Emory University, and an MBA from George Washington University. She’s also a Booz Allen NVIDIA-certified Deep Learning Instructor.