Robert Osazuwa Ness is an adjunct professor of computer science at Northeastern University, an ML Research Engineer at Gamalon, and the founder of AltDeep School of AI.  He holds a PhD in statistics.  He studied at Johns Hopkins SAIS and then Purdue University. 

References 

• Altdeep School of AI, Altdeep on Twitch, Substack, Robert Ness 
• Altdeep Causal Generative Machine Learning Minicourse, Free course 
• Robert Osazuwa Ness on Google Scholar 
• Gamalon Inc 
• Causal Reinforcement Learning talks, Elias Bareinboim 
• The Bitter Lesson, Rich Sutton 2019 
• The Need for Biases in Learning Generalizations, Tom Mitchell 1980 
• Schema Networks: Zero-shot Transfer with a Generative Causal Model of Intuitive Physics, Kansky et al 2017