Rich Stureborg is an AI research scientist at Grammarly , with a primary focus on LLM Evaluation and LLM-as-a-Judge. He has broad professional experience within higher education, including in university endowments, currently serving as a voting member on the board of Duke University , where he previously received his PhD and was the first founding student of the Duke NLP lab .

Rich Stureborg is an AI research scientist at Grammarly , specializing in the use of language models for complex, subjective tasks that include high levels of ambiguity, nuance, and contention. His interdisciplinary research has been featured in top venues across fields like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, optics, and public health.

He started his career in finance and has broad professional experience within higher education, including in university endowments, currently serving as a voting member on the board of Duke University . Previously, he led DACC , a consulting organization, driving growth to 25 client engagements in a single year. Rich got his PhD in computer science from Duke University, where he was co-advised by Jun Yang and Bhuwan Dhingra . He also holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke, and a BS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern.

Rickard (Rich) Stureborg is a computer scientist, specializing in the use of language models for complex, subjective tasks that include high levels of ambiguity, nuance, and contention. His research focuses on the use of language models in high-subjectivity, high-difficulty tasks such as understanding vaccine concerns and building reliable LLM scorers for generative AI quality monitoring. Rich’s interdisciplinary research has been featured in the most prestigious peer-reviewed research venues across several fields, including natural language processing (*ACLs), human-computer interaction (CHI), artificial intelligence (NeurIPS and AAAI workshops), optics (SPIE, Journal of Biomedical Optics), and public health (Vaccine).

Rich has broad professional experience within higher education, currently serving as a voting member on the board of Duke University. He has worked in and sat on committees and boards for a wide range of topics, including curriculum development, Title IX, disability resources, hiring of key administrators, and university endowments. He served on the Advisory Committee for Investment Responsibility (ACIR) at Duke, which examines portfolio transparency and potential divestments for the $12B endowment. He was a voting member of an organization that managed investments for part of Northeastern’s endowment. He was also the Treasurer for Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG), where he had direct responsibility for the $360K annual budget impacting more than 10K students. In this role, he directly negotiated a PhD stipend increase of 15% on behalf of ~4K Duke doctoral students as part of a task force composed of the Deans and CFOs of each school at Duke University.

Previously, Rich served as president of DACC, a consulting organization that provides pro-bono technical and management consulting for businesses of all sizes (from startups to S&P 1000) and all industries (from biotech to retail). There, he oversaw more than 50 client engagements and hired more than 200 part-time student consultants. In 3 years, he restructured the organization into four strategic business units, led a rebranding campaign, drastically reduced turnover, and grew the organization from ~2-3 completed projects per year to 25 clients served per year (roughly 10x growth).

Rich started his career in 2016 on the Indonesian stock market, working on equities research. Rich graduated Summa Cum Laude in three years from Northeastern University (a five-year school) with a BS in Computer Engineering. There, he was inducted into the Huntington 100 group, an annual list of the top 100 most influential students from the University’s 18,000+ students (top 0.5%). He got his PhD and MS in Computer Science at Duke University.