Note: I am on sabbatical for the 2025-26 academic year, and will be spending portions of my time as a Visiting Scholar at the Deaprtment of Statistics at the University of California Irvine. If you’re nearby, come say Hello!

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 McDonald’s cashier, a math tutor, a customer service rep, a janitor, a personal assistant, and a film technician in Hollywood as a member of the IATSE union, Local 683.