Dr. Bret Staudt Willet is an assistant professor of instructional systems and learning technologies at FSU, and the Educational Research Catalyst for the Innovation Hub. His research investigates self-directed learning, examining how individuals figure things out on their own using the internet, AI, and exploration in games. He studies what happens after learners complete formal instruction and training.

Dr. Gubanov is an assistant professor and a lead PI on a multi-year NSF ($550K) grant and a Casey DeSantis Cancer Innovation Fund ($1.2M) consortium grant with Moffitt Cancer Center to develop new AI for better cancer practices. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington and completed a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. His honors include the Amazon AI AWS Research Award, the Communications of the ACM (CACM) Award, the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlights Award, and the IEEE ICDE Best Paper Award.

Dr. Jonathan Adams, a professor in the FSU School of Information, directs the CCI Machine Learning Lab (MLab), specializing in using synthetic visual data to train AI models. His broader research focuses on educational technologies, online learning, and entrepreneurship. With over 20 years of experience as an educator and a small business owner, he is also a Fulbright Scholar.