Summary
Rob Churchill is Head of Data Science with 11 years of experience applying unsupervised machine learning and data engineering to real-world problems, most recently directing predictive analytics for restaurant performance at 5-Out. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Georgetown where his dissertation and ICDM-published work introduced topic-noise models to make topic modeling robust to social media noise, time, and domain knowledge. Rob combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering—building production ML pipelines, serverless backends, and bespoke AI agents for startups through his consultancy, Churchill Software. He has led teams to design cost-efficient data architectures and monitoring systems that scale to larger clients while keeping models interpretable for stakeholders. Based in New Jersey, he is equally at home prototyping novel unsupervised models and debugging SQL schemas, and outside work he’s an avid surfer, skier, and kitesurfer who gravitates toward problems that take him outdoors.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Georgetown University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Boston University
French