Colleen Keller

Colleen Keller is an Operations Research Analyst at Metron, Inc., a small DoD consulting firm specializing in mathematical software applications to real-world problems. Colleen was part of the Metron team that performed Bayesian probability mapping for the French Government in the 2009 search for Air France 447; she traveled twice to Paris to work on site and reconstructed the surface search efforts to find the floating wreckage. More recently she has served as Metron’s spokesperson for questions raised by the media on the search for Malaysian Air flight MH370. Colleen also applied Bayesian principles to the search for Steve Fossett in 2006 and is a founding member of the all-volunteer Missing Aircraft Search Team (MAST) which tackles cold cases of missing aircraft. She is a 3,000-hour instrument- and commercial- rated private pilot and FAA-certified A&P mechanic, and a Civilian Volunteer to the San Diego Sheriff Department’s Aero Unit and Search and Rescue team. Colleen holds a B.A. in Physics from Dartmouth College (1985) and a M.S. degree in Applied Physics from The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering (1990). She has been with Metron since 1995.