Patrick Roos

I’m a Computer Scientist by training and solo-founder of software company Gnomish Enterprises (better not bigger). During the employee era of my career I was Director of Machine Learning (ML) at The Knot Worldwide, and Chief Data Scientist at zData, the US Data Science and AI practice of Atos (now Eviden). I came there via acquisition of Miner & Kasch, an AI and Data Science consulting startup.

Before joining the industry world I did research at the National Cancer Institute and in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University of Maryland (UMD). I received my Ph.D. (2012) and M.S. in Computer Science at UMD, co-advised by Dana Nau (Computer Science) and Michele Gelfand (Cultural Psychology). My interest in interdisciplinary work launched under Bill Manaris during my B.S. in Data Science at the College of Charleston (2007).

I grew up in Bavaria, Germany and became a US citizen after having lived in the US for about half of my life. Outside of work I spend a lot of time training and (no longer really) competing in Muay Thai.