Dr. Michael Shamos - Distinguished Career Professor in the Institute for Software Research and the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His impressive career spans private and academic institutions in intellectual property and computer science. Currently, he is the director of the Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation degree program at CMU and previously ran the Master of Science in eBusiness Technology at CMU for 20 years.

Jack Mostow is an Emeritus Research Professor of Robotics, Machine Learning, Language Technologies and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, and has served as President of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society. In 1992 he founded Project LISTEN (www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen), which developed an automated Reading Tutor that listens to children read aloud, winning a United States patent and the Allen Newell Medal of Research Excellence. In 2017 his RoboTutor team won a $1M Finalist Award in the Global Learning XPRIZE competition to develop an Android tablet app that teaches basic Swahili literacy and numeracy to children with little or no access to schools. He now works on data-driven refinement of RoboTutor for its continuing use in Tanzania.

Maria Paulselli - President at Provident Charter School, specializes in helping students with dyslexia. She is a special educator with extensive reading and writing remediation background. She has served as an educational researcher, public school teacher, learning center director, special education advocate, and educational consultant.

Dr. Bhiksha Ramakrishnan - Professor at the Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His focus has been in the areas of speech recognition, audio processing, neural networks, and Privacy/Security for voice processing.

Dr. Rita Singh - Associate Research Professor at the Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her focus on speech recognition and artificial intelligence has enabled greater automation and created more powerful scalable search strategies for voice processing systems.

Teo is the Enterprise Vice-Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Mayo College of Medicine and Science, Honorary Professor at Queen’s University Belfast and at the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute in Northern Ireland, and an International Surgical Advisor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He serves as the ambassador for the Royal College in the United States. Previously, he served as chairman of both the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences and of the School of Management at Queen’s University Belfast. He directed the Harvard-MIT Program in Biomedical Entrepreneurship and has lectured at Harvard Business School, Wharton, and the Georgia Institute of Technology on innovation policy and investment. He is currently the senior advisor to CURAM, at the National University of Ireland in Galway, and to Broadview Ventures, a venture philanthropy fund focused on cardiovascular and neurovascular disease. Teo received an AB from Columbia College, MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins, MTS from Harvard, and MBA from Wharton. He trained in Neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Maudsley, Guy’s, and King’s College Hospitals in London. He also trained in pediatric psychiatry and neurology. He served as a combat neurosurgeon in the US military is currently a Deputy Command Surgeon in the National Guard. He holds the US Humanitarian Service and the Dixon Medals, among other decorations. He is an Overseer of the Beth Israel Lahey Hospital in Boston, a past Director of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and a director of Mission Brain, a charitable organization focused on bringing advanced neurosurgical care to underserved populations.

Dr. Maroon is a Clinical Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Heindl Scholar in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. He did his undergraduate work at Indiana University, where he was a Scholastic All-American in football, and received his medical education at Indiana (Bloomington), Oxford (England) Georgetown Universities, and the University of Vermont. In 1990, he co-developed the ImPACT neurocognitive test, which is the only FDA-approved test for concussion assessment and is the standard of care in most amateur and professional sports organizations. He is senior vice president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), one of the largest medical societies in the world for preventive medicine. He has been the team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers for 40 years and the first neurosurgeon directly appointed in the NFL. In November 2016, he was appointed chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Chuck Noll Foundation. He is a senior member of the NFL Head, Neck, and Spine Committee and also the medical director of the World Wrestling Entertainment Corporation (WWE). He has published over 310 peer-reviewed papers, 56 book chapters, and 6 books. In 2017, his book on overcoming adversity and “burnout”, Square One—A Simple Guide to a Balanced Life, was favorably reviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta and others. In 2011, He was recognized as an Indiana University Distinguished Alumnus. He has competed in 8 Ironman distance triathlons, five at the annual World Triathlon Championship in Kona, Hawaii. In 2022, he placed second in his age group in the Senior Olympics Triathlon. He was inducted into the Lou Holtz Hall of Fame along with Joe Montana. In 2019, he was selected "Man of the Year" by the Jerome Bettis Foundation. In 2020, he was honored with the Physician of Courage award by UPMC given to one person each year out of 5,000 physicians. In 2022. He was selected as the Alumnus of the Year by the Indiana University Medical School.