Robbie Haertel is a Principal Engineer at Google with 14 years of software engineering experience and a deep research background in applied machine learning and natural language processing. He blends industry-scale systems design with academic rigor as a Ph.D. candidate researching Bayesian topic models, cost-conscious active learning, and statistical morphology for Semitic languages. At BYU he founded and led the Active Learning for Annotation group, and his work spans both production ML systems and principled decision-theoretic approaches to annotation efficiency. Based in San Jose, he has progressed through senior technical roles at Google, shipping large-scale features while mentoring engineers. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he also holds an M.A. in linguistics, spent two years living in the Yucatán studying Mayan languages, and was trained in Mayan hieroglyphic reading—bringing rare linguistic and fieldwork perspective to language technologies.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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