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.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics at Purdue UniversityHopkins-Nanjing Center Program International Relations and National Security Studies, Hopkins-Nanjing Center Program International Relations and National Security Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Bachelors Economics, Bachelors Economics at University of Pittsburgh
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
coupon8
tensorflow7
forecast6
recurrent-neural-networks4
lstm3
github-pages2
nlp1
natural-language-processing1
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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