Robin Cross

Robin Cross is a founding partner and Research Director of DemandLink. While leading the DemandLink team, Robin also serves as Assistant Professor-Senior Researcher in Applied Economics at Oregon State University. His research focus areas include Cognitive & Behavioral Analysis, Evolutionary Computing, Machine Learning and Wine Economics. Through his research work, Robin has partnered with Oregon State University and its public and private collaborators, including Harvard University, Oregon Health Sciences University, University of Maryland, Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart. Robin has been widely published and is the author or co-author of 13 journal articles, 7 conference papers, and 7 book chapters.

Previously, Robin served as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oregon State University and Chief Financial Officer at Kraemer’s Nursery prior to co-founding DemandLink in 2008. His professional experience also includes a Senior Credit Officer role at Northwest Farm Credit Services. In 2000 he started his graduate work at Oregon State University as Graduate Research Assistant. Robin holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University, and graduated Summa cum Laude with a B.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University.