Alison Evans Cuellar, Ph.D, Chief Statistician

Alison Evans Cuellar is Chief Statistician and an important resource for defining research methodologies and advanced analytics. She is a mainstay in the Know your Network Users practice and is adept at programming and statistical modeling with extremely large datasets. Her ability to relate business challenges and opportunities to data is extraordinary, which has been particularly valuable in engagements with Sprint, Bell Canada, Sky Broadband, and Microsoft. Alison is a recognized expert in identifying and evaluating innovative organizational forms, and their effects on quality, efficiency, costs, prices, and technology adoption. 

In addition to her role at WaveLength, Alison is an Associate Professor teaching strategy at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia and Adjunct Economist for RAND. She spent 2005-06 as a visiting economist to the U.S. Department of Justice working on anti-trust issues. From 2001 to 2008, she has taught courses in research methods, statistics, and in strategic management to graduate and undergraduate students, as an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York City. She is a member of a national collaborative network supported by the MacArthur Foundation in Washington, D.C. that conducts research on policy issues. 

Alison earned her undergraduate degree and MBA at the University of Texas at Austin, and her PhD at University of California, Berkeley.