Email: robert.downing@asdrp.org 

Robert Downing previously served as the Chair, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at ASDRP and as a Research Advisor, leading a diversity of projects that aimed to use data science to inform all parts of our everyday world (and even things out of this world!).

He came from a background comprising four decades in the high-tech and data systems industry (IBM, 3COM, etc.) and Professor and Adjunct Faculty positions in Undergraduate and Graduate studies of Hardware, Software & Computer Networking. As an experienced data scientist, Mr. Downing sees data as central to everything - from exploring habitable exoplanets to discovering Interstellar visitors to our Solar System, or possible explanations for the large-scale inhomogeneities of our Cosmos.

He will be continuing his Mentorship in Astrophysics, Cosmology, Encryption/Decryption & AI/ML from a new location in the state of Arizona, where he will also be pursuing Cryptids & Unidentified Anomolous Aerial Phenomena.