Robert Edwin Rouse is a researcher at Cambridge Zero, where he focusses on developing new statistical and machine learning approaches to be applied to real world problems; the development of predictive tools for assessing the impact of extreme meteorological phenomena, including but not limited to flooding, storms, and heatwaves; and artificial intelligence optimisation of built environment systems, such as decarbonisation pathways for commercial/industrial structures. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in artificial intelligence for environmental risk and prior to that received Masters degrees from the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and The Royal College of Art. Robert was a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.