A 4th-generation resident of Los Angeles, Dr. Robert Rovetti is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science at Loyola Marymount University, where he specializes in computational simulation and data analysis in applications ranging from molecular and clinical physiology to human health and performance to longitudinal multistate data, using a variety of computing techniques in numerical methods, stochastic simulation, nonlinear dynamics, statistical regression and classification, large-dataset manipulation and cleaning, and data visualization.

He received his Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he was supported by a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and completed his research in the UCLA Cardiac Computation Lab. Prior to his graduate training, Robert was a Research Analyst for the biotechnology firm Amgen Inc, supporting the development of new drugs to treat anemia in oncology patients through the analysis of human (clinical) pharmacokinetic data. Before that, he worked his way through high school and college as a landscaper, an office clerk, a biology lab TA, a cashier at McDonald’s, a math tutor, a customer service rep, a janitor, a personal assistant, and a film technician in Hollywood as a unionized member of IATSE Local 683.