Cole Robertson
Chief Technology Officer at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCole Robertson is an interdisciplinary technology leader and researcher blending nine years of hands-on AI engineering with deep academic training in cognitive science, linguistics, and behavioral economics. As CTO of Ogma Therapy and former CTO of Texture AI, he has shipped explainable, clinically-aligned ASR and NLP products that drove measurable commercial impact while embedding rigorous data pipelines for safety and scalability. His postdoctoral work and visiting research role at Emory use cognitive-science methods and mechanistic interpretability to probe latent representations in LLMs, VLMs, and world models, and to extract linguistic biomarkers for neurocognitive conditions. He has a track record of synthesizing disconnected literatures—demonstrated by a PhD linking modality in language to economic discounting—and applies that integrative approach to both product strategy and fundamental AI questions. A serial entrepreneur and former research scientist, he balances startup execution with publishable research and seeks collaborative postdoc or research-forward roles focused on world models and cognitive neuroscience of AI. Based in Atlanta with roots in the UK, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor, product-minded engineering, and therapeutic-impact experience.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Arts and Sciences, Associate's degree Arts and Sciences at Capilano UniversityPhD Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics, PhD Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics at Radboud UniversityMaster of Science - MS Anthropology, Master of Science - MS Anthropology at University of OxfordBachelor of Arts Western Society and Culture, Bachelor of Arts Western Society and Culture at Concordia University
Spanish
Github Skills (126)
fasttext10
twint10
twitter10
word2vec10
topic-modeling10
gensim10
scrape10
twitter-api10
word-embeddings10
corpus9
api9
nlp9
lda9
python9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cbjrobertson/ftr_classifier
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:15 releases, 117 commits, 113 pushes in 2 years 8 months
cbjrobertson/cbjrobertson.github.io
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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