Summary
Richard Walroth is a Principal AI Scientist based in California with eight years of interdisciplinary experience bridging spectroscopy, chemistry, and data-driven discovery. He holds a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Cornell and combines deep wet-lab expertise—synthetic organic/inorganic chemistry, recombinant protein expression, NMR—with computational and data science skills from a Udacity Data Scientist Nanodegree. At Genentech he advanced from Senior to Principal AI Scientist, applying machine learning to complex analytical problems after research roles at SLAC and NASA Ames. Richard is equally comfortable designing experiments and turning high-dimensional spectral data into actionable models, and his background in space science gives him a unique perspective on instrumentation and signal interpretation.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Inorganic Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Inorganic Chemistry at Cornell University Graduate School
Data Scientist Nanodegree, Data Science, Data Scientist Nanodegree, Data Science at Udacity
BS, Chemistry, BS, Chemistry at University of Florida