Robert Corwin
- Co-Founder and CEO at Austin Artificial Intelligence
GetLatka interview
How Austin Artificial Intelligence Reached 7 Clients and Profitability as a Data Science Services Firm (Interview with CEO Robert Corwin)
Robert Corwin (Co-Founder and CEO of Austin Artificial Intelligence) spoke to Nathan Latka on August 17, 2022.
Austin Artificial Intelligence figures from the interview
- Active Clients (2022)
- 7
- US Full-Time Team Members (2022)
- 5
- Year Founded
- 2021
- Profitable (2022)
- Yes
“What I realized at the time was that the same type of work I had been doing in quant finance for so long is now very prevalent outside the finance industry. I would say finance and defense have been doing this kind of work for twenty, thirty years.”
“We come in with a SWAT team, a data science pod, if you will, of a mix of seniorities of people, and we're very empathetic to your business. What are your business goals? Where are you going to save time? Where are going to save money? How can we help you do that?”
“A typical pod would be a senior data scientist working probably half time, managing a mid level data scientist and or engineer full time, and then also two to three junior resources who are a mix of engineers and data scientists, both in The US and abroad. We find that formula to be very effective.”
Bio
Robert has a wide array of data science experience in many industries. He is the co-founder of Austin Artificial Intelligence, a data science, ML and AI joint venture serving clients in the technology, financial, and industrial sectors. Prior to Austin AI, co-founded EVA Capital, a quantitative hedge fund which traded long/short factor strategies in U.S. equities. Prior to that, Rob served as Head of Quantitative Research at EVA Dimensions, where he was lead researcher on a variety of models, including an EVA-based stock section system for global equities, a customized risk and attribution tool, and cost of capital models. Prior to that, Rob was employed at The Rohatyn Group, a multi-billion dollar emerging markets hedge fund, where he held a wide array of responsibilities in quantitative modeling, trading, and programming. Prior to that, Rob worked in a quantitative unit of Nomura Securities in both New York and Tokyo. Rob holds a Masters in Financial Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Company
Austin Artificial Intelligence
Lakeway, United States · Founded 2021
- Revenue
- $2.5M
- Funding
- $1M
- Team size
- 15
- Customers
- 7