Robert is the Founder and CEO of AskNews, which hosts the largest licensed news knowledge graph in the world. He started AskNews in 2023 to build an AI-first news data delivery system for frontier AI labs, governments, hedge funds, insurers, and intelligence groups. Those teams choose AskNews because its data is built on state-of-the-art research, including bias extraction, entity relationship extraction, misinformation detection, and point-in-time backtesting. Robert holds a PhD in Computational Mechanics and has more than 1,600 academic citations for research on large-scale model training, open-source scientific software, and fluid-solid interaction simulation.