Meet Kathryn Hechtel, PhD
Artificial Intelligence, Workflow Optimization, Software Integration
Kathryn Hechtel is an AI consultant based in Reno, Nevada, with a PhD in mathematics from the University of Kentucky. She specializes in crafting AI-driven tools and software solutions that optimize business processes and improve operational efficiency.
After completing her PhD, Kathryn founded TechFrontier AI Consulting, where she partners with businesses to address specific operational challenges including:
Resource Optimization
Streamlined Data Transfer
AI-Driven Business Operations
Process Efficiency
Private AI Deployment
Kathryn has worked with Sierra Integrated Systems (SIS), where she has developed several impactful tools. This includes an AI-driven proposal summarizer, a data transfer solution that streamlines updating the Work-In-Progress Report, and a custom schedule optimizer tool. Her innovations have significantly reduced manual labor, saving the SIS team over 100 hours per month and enabling project managers to cut their data entry time by over 90% for these reports.
In 2023, Kathryn was selected by UCLA and the Zuse Institute of Berlin to participate in their G-RIPS research initiative. She was one of a team of mathematicians hired to optimize municipal electric bus schedules. Kathryn and her colleagues applied genetic and large neighborhood search algorithms to create bus schedules that deliver public transportation services at the lowest possible cost.
Kathryn frequently participates in conferences on AI, cybersecurity and applied mathematics and has given several talks on algebraic coding theory. She participated as a guest speaker for a webinar on AI in the Construction Industry hosted by TechEdge Dynamics. Kathryn has also delivered an award-winning presentation on skew-cyclic codes at Eastern Kentucky University and presented on skew-polynomials at the Joint Math Meetings (JMM) conference in San Francisco.
Companies interested in exploring AI solutions are welcome to contact Kathryn at khechtel@techfrontierai.com.
