Rob Hall

Rob Hall is a highly experienced machine learning professional with a strong background in data science and engineering. Currently serving as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb since March 2025, Rob focuses on price modeling. Prior to this role, Rob worked at Resonance Companies, where responsibilities included factory scheduling and computer vision. Previous experience includes positions at Gopuff and Faire, centered on search infrastructure and machine learning pipelines. Rob held key roles at TripAdvisor, contributing to recommender systems and ranking models, and has academic experience as a part-time lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Rob earned a PhD in Machine Learning and Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, where research focused on privacy-preserving data mining. Rob's early career included internships at Google, developing recommendation systems and retrieval techniques.