Adam Paulisick
Professor
Adam Paulisick is the CEO of SkillBuilder.io - deploying AI Growth Agents within minutes thanks to more than 4 years of applied research anchored out of Carnegie Mellon University. Adam has spent over 10 years as a Professor of Entrepreneurship (sales, marketing, and digital product design) at the graduate level of Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, a lead Executive Education Instructor at CMU's School of Computer Science (#1 in the world), Adjunct in the Masters of Artificial Intelligence program, and Adjunct at CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (the first HCI graduate program of record). Prior to Adam’s focus on teaching at CMU, Adam was the Chief Product Officer at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) resulting from the acquisition of MAYA Design and was a Senior Vice President at the Nielsen Company post the acquisition of BuzzMetrics with global leadership roles based in the US and Europe. To connect with Adam:
www.linkedin.com/in/paulisick/ and check out www.SkillBuilder.io
Sean Ammirati
Professor
Sean is a Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and the Co-Founder and former Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab (CSL). Through CSL, he developed tools and courses to help corporations integrate entrepreneurial practices and partnered graduate students with companies to test startup ideas. Beyond academia, Sean is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and author with a track record of leading seed investments in 20 companies, including NoWait (acquired by Yelp) and JazzHR (acquired by Jobvite). He also founded and sold multiple ventures, including mSpoke, LinkedIn’s first acquisition. His book, The Science of Growth (2016), was released by St. Martin's Press in April 2016 and was subsequently translated and published in Korean and Mandarin.
Bain McHale
Teaching Assistant
Bain is a Master's of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation student who completed in the course in Spring 2024 as part of the Embark team. He previously cofounded and served as CTO for Soter Driving after completing the LEARN, MAKE, and LAUNCH programs of the Create-X program at Georgia Tech. Bain has completed multiple internships in both hardware and software across multiple industries at companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Epic Systems. He received the ECE Senior Scholar award at Georgia Tech and multiple Venturing Leadership Awards for his volunteer work in Scouting.
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The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon educates the leaders of tomorrow and performs groundbreaking research in the areas of:
Natural Language Processing | Computational Linguistics | Information Extraction | Summarization & Question Answering | Information Retrieval | Text Mining & Analytics | Knowledge Representation | Reasoning & Acquisition | Language Technologies for Education | Machine Learning | Machine Translation | Multimodal Computing and Interaction | Speech Processing | Spoken Interfaces & Dialogue Processing
Shoutout to Dr. Michael Shamos. The Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation (MSAII) program combines a rigorous AI and machine learning curriculum with real-world team experience in innovation and entrepreneurship.