Robert Cregg, M.S., M.B.A.

Robert Cregg, M.S., M.B.A., is the Senior Analytics Advisor at the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR), where he provides counsel to the OAR Director and leads a team to capture and analyze the NIH HIV research portfolio, leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and text mining.

Mr. Cregg has more than two decades of experience working at NIH to develop new data analytic systems, including the text-mining Research, Condition and Disease Categorization system. Since 2016, he has served OAR in a variety of contractor and federal staff roles focused on data science, data analytics, systems engineering, and software development.

His previous positions include serving the National Science Foundation as a Data Scientist focused on text analytics, working for a biotech company as a researcher, developing anti-angiogenesis cancer drugs, and volunteering in the Peace Corps to teach physics and chemistry to high school students in Malawi, East Africa. As a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University, he conducted research on the AIDS opportunistic disease organism Candida glabrata, focusing on developing libraries of DNA mutations to identify genes associated with infection.

Mr. Cregg holds a B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz; an M.S. in biotechnology and bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University; and an M.B.A from Johns Hopkins University.