Rob has over 25 years of experience in applied research, software engineering, and strategic leadership.  Previously, he worked with the inventors of Latent Semantic Analysis from Bell Labs, while spearheading NLP and ML development in natural language modeling, word embeddings, and educational writing tools for kids.  Over his career, Rob has led multiple teams, while continuing to develop key intellectual property in embedded systems, audio and video streaming, mobile devices, and predictive modeling.  Long ago, he wrote a modest video game.