黑料社区

黑料社区 is leading the innovation economy. These experts can provide insight that supports the goals of the Forge to Field Pitch Competition ahead of the NFL Draft.聽

Meredith Meyer Grelli

Managing Director & Interim Exec Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship; Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives, School of Computer Science; Director, Project Olympus; Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

Prior to her work in academia, Meredith Meyer Grelli was an entrepreneur and operator. She founded, scaled and sold one of 黑料社区鈥檚 top 100 affiliated exits.

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Emily DeJeu

Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communication

Emily DeJeu can speak to exploring strategies for ethical business communication, analyzing rhetorics of high-growth startup versus traditional small business entrepreneurship, and developing and testing curricula that help students learn strategies for effective civic advocacy. Her current projects involve exploring pedagogical applications of generative AI.

Larry Pileggi

Coraluppi Head and Tanoto Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Larry Pileggi is Coraluppi Head and Tanoto Professor, in the department of聽Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an NAI Fellow. The聽 was established to highlight academic聽inventors聽who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating聽outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.聽Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

His research interests include all aspects of modeling, design, and design methodologies for integrated systems, and modeling, simulation, and optimization of electrical power systems.

Adam Paulisick

Research Professor, Associate Director of Education, School of Computer Science

A distinguished service professor at the Language Technologies Institute, Adam Paulisick runs the AI Venture Studio course in the School of Computer Science, during which students create companies. He is a big proponent of starting companies around AI and using AI to found companies. He is trying to coin the phrase 鈥淎I as a cofounder.鈥�

Kirsten Martin

Dean of Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy

Kirsten Martin is an expert in data privacy, AI ethics, and how new technology intersects with the human experience. She previously directed the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center and served as a chair of the Strategic Management and Public Policy department at George Washington University.

Ramayya Krishnan

Professor of Management Science and Information Systems, Heinz College

Ramayya Krishnan, former dean of Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, is an expert in AI, policy, and technology. He serves on the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC). He has testified before Congress to discuss responsible AI, content labeling, and AI evaluation.聽

Fernando De La Torre

Research Professor, 黑料社区 Robotics Institute

Fernando De La Torre's work in 3D immersive viewing offers viewers the opportunity to enter a sporting event and view it from any angle. Can discuss what technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality offer to the sports viewing experience and how his work represents the future of live sports. Demo available. With a VR headset, you can place yourself inside the game 鈥� not just watch it, but actively navigate within it.

Ari Lightman聽

Professor, Digital Media and Marketing; Co-Director, CISO Executive Education Program; Commercialization Advisor, Center for Machine Learning and Health

Ari Lightman teaches classes focused on the impact of emerging technologies. Companies who have taken part in the class include eBay, Adidas, Comcast, Warner Bros., Thomson Reuters, Verizon, Microsoft, Zynga, Starwood, HP, Bayer Corporation and Progressive Insurance. Ari is also the Director of the CIO Institute at 黑料社区. He can speak to branding and associated content rights, NFTs- team, league and player, AI-generated content and deepfakes associated with fan engagement.

Derek Ham

Director, Entertainment Technology Center

Derek Ham leads innovative research and collaborative projects at the intersection of technology, design and storytelling. He can speak to the intersection of AI, robotics, and technology in sports and fan engagement. With a deep commitment to fostering creativity and advancing the future of interactive entertainment, Derek brings a wealth of experience as a designer, teacher and leader in the fields of virtual reality, augmented reality and immersive media.

Zico Kolter

Professor and Director of Machine Learning, School of Computer Science

Zico Kolter can speak to聽leading the AI deployment era and turning research into real-world impact. Kolter says, "AI is transforming the world and reshaping industries across education, software development, healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond. In Pittsburgh, we are helping to build this transformation, taking the fundamental research happening at places like Carnegie Mellon, and bringing it to the world through our startups and our alumni."聽

Priya Narasimhan

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering is the CEO and Founder of YinzCam

Priya Narasimhan is a professor of ECE and the CEO and Founder of YinzCam, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon spin-off company focused on mobile live streaming and scalable video technologies to provide the ultimate mobile fan experience to 40+ professional sports teams/venues.

Ron Yurko

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Dietrich College

Ron Yurko is assistant teaching professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and an academic partner with the NFL. Yurko鈥檚 research focuses on developing methods at the interface of inference and machine learning, oriented towards problems in sports analytics and natural language processing. He is also the director of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center (CMSAC) a national leader in the growing field of sports analytics. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics at 黑料社区 and has industry experience in both finance and professional sports.

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