Dr. Alena Crivello is Statistician and Data Scientist. After postdoctoral work in clinical trials at the University of Michigan, Alena has spent the last decade working in the energy industry in Houston. She has worked on data science challenges in a wide variety of applications, including financial modeling, wind energy production, drilling, geophysics, facilities engineering, cybersecurity, equipment reliability, reservoir management, and environmental health & safety.

At EDP Renewables, Alena specialized in identifying and evaluating risks of potential and existing energy contracts and made hedging recommendations based on views about the energy industry. At Chevron, in addition to working on data science projects in a variety of disciplines, she was responsible for creating and leading educational programs in data science for the enterprise.

Alena holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Statistics, both from Rice University, and received her B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Dallas.