Brian Rowe
Founder at Yeshiva University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Rowe is an entrepreneur and founder with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and climate adaptation platforms from Montreal. He has repeatedly turned data science and time-series expertise into operational systems—founding Zato Novo to create a multi-hazard Climate Adaptation Data Platform and earlier leading Pez.AI to deliver production chatbots that acted as "AI workforces." His background spans finance and engineering roles at Merrill Lynch and Bridgewater through to product leadership and teaching graduate AI capstones at Yeshiva and CUNY, blending rigorous quantitative skills with practical product delivery. Brian has a track record of applying ML to social problems—reducing hiring bias, improving foster-care outcomes, and helping vulnerable populations adapt to climate and public-health risks. Less obvious: he builds bespoke domain models (evapotranspiration, mosquito abundance) not just forecasts, enabling decision-control applications rather than raw predictions. He combines startup grit, academic teaching, and cross-sector impact to move research into scalable, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electirical Engineering Mathematics, BS Electirical Engineering Mathematics at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (86)
expressions10
log4j10
keras10
normal9
python9
fractal9
logging9
r-package9
deep-learning8
functional-programming8
cooperation8
tensorflow8
csv6
cran6
modeling6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zatonovo/crant
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 years 11 months
r-packager-packagesrstatscran
zatonovo/lambda.r
Mar 2015 - Sep 2019
Functional programming in R
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 6 months
functional-programming
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