Robert Martin-short
Senior Data Scientist
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Martin-short is a Senior Data Scientist based in Berkeley with 10 years of experience turning ML research into production systems, particularly in NLP, time series, and healthcare applications using LLMs. He holds a PhD in geophysics and brings uncommon domain expertise in geospatial and seismic data, high-performance computing, and numerical modeling to data-driven product work. At companies from data.ai to Nuna and now Databricks, he has led cross-functional teams to build scalable pipelines, LLM-powered evaluation frameworks, and customer-facing “chat to your data” interfaces. His work spans deep learning for multimodal feature extraction, robust statistical debiasing for large-scale metrics, and practical evaluation methods (including LLM-as-judge) to accelerate iteration. Comfortable both in research settings and in product delivery, he combines scientific rigor with hands-on engineering to reduce time-to-insight on complex, real-world datasets.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geophysics and Seismology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geophysics and Seismology at University of California, BerkeleyMSci Geophysics with a year abroad Geophysics and Seismology, MSci Geophysics with a year abroad Geophysics and Seismology at Imperial College London
Github Skills (29)
audio9
nlp8
python8
google-map8
natural-language-processing8
pytorch8
instagram8
llm7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
transformer6
speech-recognition6
sklearn6
google-maps6
multimodal6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rmartinshort/GeneticAlgorithm
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
A genetic algorithm for selecting optimal feature combinations with sklearn supervised ML objects
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
genetic-algorithmmachine-learningsklearn
rmartinshort/AmbientNoise
Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 6 months
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