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Rich is Co-founder and CEO of Acrebase, a negotiation intelligence platform for contracts such as commercial real estate leases. Acrebase combines Game Theory with advanced algorithms to predict counterparty behavior and quantify and rank legal outcomes.
Previously, Rich was an AI research scientist at Superhuman and Grammarly, where his work focused on Large Language Model (LLM) evaluation and LLM-as-a-Judge systems. Rich’s interdisciplinary research has been featured in the most prestigious peer-reviewed research venues across several fields, including natural language processing (-ACL conferences), human-computer interaction (CHI), artificial intelligence (NeurIPS and AAAI workshops), optics (SPIE, Journal of Biomedical Optics), and public health (Vaccine).
Rich has broad experience within higher education, having 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 was a voting member of an organization that managed investments for part of Northeastern’s endowment. He also sat on the Advisory Committee for Investment Responsibility at Duke.
Rich was nominated by the Graduate and Professional Young Trustee Nominating Committee in 2024. He is serving a three-year term on the board, including the Graduate and Professional Education and Research Committee.
February 2026