Michael L. Roberts

Co-founder · michael@combinatoriallabs.com

Portrait of Michael L. Roberts

Michael Roberts has two decades of experience in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Along the way he has had the privilege of working with great teams at organizations like NASA, The Walt Disney Company and TomTom.

His career in technology has progressed from the design of advanced systems for manned spaceflight in the days of the Space Shuttle, through building an experimental search engine in the early days of the Internet, to exploring the application of genetic algorithms to dynamic neural networks and hypergraphs.

  • US 11,914,578 · 2024

    Xbundle: a hierarchical hypergraph database designed for distributed processing

    A novel form of graph database incorporating a hierarchical structure with a single recursive computational abstraction---the xbundle--- to implement the roles of vertex, edge, and subgraph.

  • US 11,757,850 · 2023

    Distributed Logging for Securing Non-Repudiable Multi-Party Transactions

    A blockchain-based distributed system for multi-party transaction logging.

  • US 11,481,790 · 2022

    Customer Experience Artificial Intelligence Management Engine

    A machine learning approach to estimating customer loyalty from sparse time series data.

  • US 11,082,409 · 2021

    Verifying message authenticity with decentralized tamper-evident logs

    Using decentralized systems such as blockchains or distributed ledgers to verify the authenticity of messages using tamper-evident logs.

  • US 10,861,028 · 2020

    Detecting and reducing bias (including discrimination) in an automated decision making process

    A bootstrapping method for approximating an unbiased distribution from a distribution of unknown bias and using it to estimate and correct the unknown bias.

  • US 10,783,535 · 2020

    Business Artificial Intelligence Management Engine

    A machine learning system for comparatively evaluating event timelines in a time series, such as consumer transactions and interactions.

  • US 10,484,343 · 2019

    Distributed Logging for Securing Non-Repudiable Multi-Party Transactions

    A system for secure distributed transaction logging on a blockchain.

  • US 5,265,829 · 1993

    Tetrahedral Lander

    An integrated aerodynamic deceleration and landing system for small unmanned payloads.