college Experts

Richard Starnes

Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic AffairsWestern Carolina University

Christopher McKinney

Associate Vice-President, Office of Innovation CommercializationAugusta University

Dr. Christopher McKinney specializes in marketing and commercializing innovative new technologies.

Matthew Hiatt

Associate ProfessorLouisiana State University

Dr. Hiatt’s research investigates hydrology and hydrodynamics in coastal systems using numerical modeling and field measurements.

William Whittaker

Founders University Research ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

A field robotics pioneer, William "Red" Whittaker's research interests centers on mobile robots in unpredictable environments.

Jieun Shin

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Jieun Shin teaches and researches social media dynamics with a focus on the spread of misinformation and fact-checking.

Giovanna Mingarelli

Chief Executive Officer and Co-FounderM&C Consulting and Mcrowdsourcing Canada (MC2) Inc.

Giovanna Mingarelli is an entrepreneur, crowdsourcing expert, public speaker and writer

Amy Fagan

Assistant ProfessorWestern Carolina University

Amy Fagan studies NASA’s planetary geology, with a focus on petrology, mineralogy, and lunar geology.

Mary Lusk

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Mary Lusk focuses her research on well water and septic system.

Christopher Kanan

Associate Professor of Computer ScienceUniversity of Rochester

Christopher Kanan's research focuses on deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

KM (Monirul) Islam, MD/MBBS, MPH, PhD

Professor of EpidemiologyAugusta University

Dr. Islam's research in is infectious diseases and patient-centered outcomes combines epidemiology and medicine.