Robert Lauer
Lead Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Lauer is a Lead Data Scientist and ML engineer based in Greater Boston with 10 years of experience applying physics-honed modeling and software engineering to industrial and scientific problems. He leads teams that design and deploy production ML solutions—most recently driving HVAC optimization projects that cut operating costs and resource use by double-digit percentages—while also bridging customers and engineers to articulate clear AI value. His background as a physicist and former astrophysics research lead informs rigorous statistical and likelihood-based approaches, proven by building widely adopted analysis software and leading multi-institution collaborations. Comfortable across the stack, he has implemented scalable data pipelines, cloud analytics, and live alerting systems, and has hands-on experience from detector commissioning to automated ETL at scale. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex models into robust, deployable features that deliver measurable sustainability and safety outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy at University of NottinghamDiploma, Physics, Diploma, Physics at RWTH Aachen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Magna cum laude at Humboldt University of Berlin
English, German, French
Github Skills (17)
xspec9
curve8
python8
astronomy8
modeling-tool7
spectral7
netcdf6
datasets6
astrology5
pandas5
cosmology5
visualization4
astrophysics4
oceanography4
spatial4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rjlauer/lctools
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Light curve plotting and analysis
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pythonlightcurveplottingvisualization
rjlauer/aerie-liff
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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