Robert Mahari is a non-residential fellow at CodeX where he helps lead the center’s research group and shape new research directions. He is also the founder of Akiva AI, a firm that partners with legal teams to build bespoke AI solutions and support AI adoption through training and strategy. He previously served as CodeX’s Associate Director.

Robert holds a JD-PhD in Legal Artificial Intelligence from MIT and Harvard Law School anchoring his dual fluency in computer science and legal doctrine. His research leverages computation to surface new jurisprudential insights, build tools to improve legal practice, and identify new approaches to regulating emerging technologies. His work has been published across disciplines, from Science and Nature Machine Intelligence to computer science venues including NeurIPS, ACL, and ICML, and covered by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Robert collaborates with public and private entities to prototype and deploy novel legal technologies, and speaks frequently to academic, industry, and government audiences worldwide. He co-chairs the New York City Bar Association’s Subcommittee on Generative AI and the Law, and as co-founder of Leading Beyond Boundaries, convenes practice-oriented academic workshops during the World Economic Forum.