Robert Ness
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Ness is a Senior Researcher and author of the book "Causal AI" with a decade of experience applying statistical and machine-learning methods to real-world problems at Microsoft, startups, and academia. He blends deep theoretical training—a PhD in Statistics and a master's in Mathematical Statistics from Purdue—with hands-on product and research roles, from founding Altdeep to driving ML research at Gamalon and Zymergen. As a Professor of Practice at Northeastern and an active researcher affiliated with PKU and Microsoft, he bridges teaching, published research, and industrial deployment of causal and language technologies. His background in finance, economics, and China studies gives him an unusual interdisciplinary lens for causal inference in socio-technical systems. He is comfortable moving between founding teams and large R&D organizations, translating complex statistical ideas into practical AI tools and curricula. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines entrepreneurial grit with rigorous research, often focusing on interpretable, causality-driven solutions rather than black‑box models.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Program, China Studies, Hopkins-Nanjing Center Program, China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAISMaster's degree, Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Master's degree, Mathematical Statistics and Probability at Purdue UniversityBachelors, Finance, Economics, Bachelors, Finance, Economics at University of Pittsburgh
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
coupon8
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
forecast5
recurrent3
machine-learning2
summarization2
lstm2
amazon2
gru2
nlp1
neural-network1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RobertMarton/RobertMarton
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
RobertMarton/projectsforFun
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
projects out of work time
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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