About Michael McCourt
Michael McCourt is the Head of Engineering at SigOpt, an Intel Company, where he has significantly contributed to the development of tools and resources aimed at optimizing the modeling process.
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Michael McCourt serves as the Head of Engineering at SigOpt, an Intel Company. In his role, he has played a pivotal part in enhancing the resources available to modelers. He contributed to the blog post ‘Take the Pain out of Training and Tuning,’ which focuses on simplifying the model training and tuning process. McCourt was also involved in the development of SigOpt’s Experiment Management solution, a topic he discussed in the blog post ‘Modeling Managed.’ His efforts extend to the creation of resources that assist modelers in managing their modeling processes, as detailed in ‘Keeping track of it all: recording and organizing model training runs.’ Furthermore, he has worked on improving modelers’ ability to understand their experiments through effective visualizations, as outlined in the blog post ‘Finding your way to the finish line: model comparisons and visualizations.’ His contributions are aimed at refining the efficiency and effectiveness of the modeling process, thereby supporting modelers in achieving better outcomes.
About SigOpt
SigOpt, based in San Francisco, CA, offers an Optimization-as-a-Service platform that tunes research pipelines for various industries, including insurance and algorithmic trading.