Robert Horton
Principal Data Scientist At Win-Vector Labs
Corte Madera, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Horton is a Principal Data Scientist at Win-Vector Labs with 11 years of industry experience and a PhD in Molecular Biology, combining deep domain knowledge in biomedicine with production data science. He has led healthcare technology assessments and built educational molecular biology simulations, reflecting a rare blend of applied ML and science education. Previously a Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft, he delivered bespoke machine learning solutions on Azure for corporate clients and analyzed complex biomedical datasets. He created and taught a graduate course in Statistical Computing for Biomedical Data Analytics and maintains course materials publicly, demonstrating commitment to reproducible teaching. As founder of Attotron Biotechnologies, he shipped the Cybertory virtual lab—an early example of interactive biology education—bridging research, software, and pedagogy. Based in Corte Madera, CA, he pairs academic rigor with practical cloud-delivered analytics to help healthcare organizations turn data into actionable decisions.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biomedical Science/Molecular Biology, PhD Biomedical Science/Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesCalifornia State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (25)
active-learning8
simulation8
simulator7
machine-learning7
classifiers7
curve6
deep-learning6
explore5
data-analytics5
threshold4
r4
webservice4
transfer-learning4
roc3
python3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rmhorton/virtual-generalist
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
A complex co-morbidities module for the Synthea patient simulator.
Contributions:199 commits, 3 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 year 8 months
patientsimulatorsimulationsynthea
rmhorton/ROC_curves
Oct 2016 - Dec 2025
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
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