
Open Development Collaborations
Partnership with Academics, Cloud Providers and Innovation Hubs to move research ideas into the future.
Academic
Partners
Dr. Rachana Guta
Director, Senior Design
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeremy Edmondson
Associate Director, Senior Design
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Jeff Terry
Interim Chair, Department of Biology
Interim Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Professor of Physics
Professor of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Editor, Applied Surface Science

Dr. Andrew Rindos
Adjunct Professor
Program Director
IBM Center for Advanced Studies
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Dr. Noble Anumbe
Senior Program Manager
Engineering and Emerging Technologies
Dr. Michael (Misha) Bouzinier
Co-Founder, Forome Association & Genomics Platform
Senior Research Software Engineer, Harvard School of Public Health
Healthcare Genomic Analysis Architect, Oracle

Dr. Jeff Nyhoff
Professor of Computer Science,
Carthage College
Lecturer of Computer Science,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Daria Tsoupikova
Professor of Digital Media Design,
School of Design,
University of Illinois-Chicago

Dr. Emmanuel Ahene
Co-Founder at Cyberpass Consult
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Dr. Deborah Richards
Professor, School of Computing
Ethics and Agency Research Centre
Performance and Expertise Research Centre
Cloud
Partners
Sudhakar Nagarajan
Principal Customer Success Manager
Architect, Financial Services
IBM Global Sales
Coach, Open Assets

Next Lab at University of South Carolina
Simulation Lab for Industry 4.0 and Factory to Factory secured communication.
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Innovation
Partners

AI Alliance
The AI Alliance is focused on fostering an open community and enabling developers and researchers to accelerate responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigor, trust, safety, security, diversity and economic competitiveness.

IBM Center for Advanced Studies
IBM Center for Advanced Studies provides high-touch collaborations with Universities and Research organizations.

Startopreneur
360
Startopreneur is a Startup Accelerator and Ecosystem Partner dedicated to fostering a thriving startup ecosystem. By enabling fundraising opportunities and driving cross-border collaborations, we empower startups to scale globally, bridging innovation across markets.

Association of Information Technology Professionals
Founded in 1951, AITP remains one of the largest professional technology associations in the country.

Pan Asian American Business Council
The mission of the PAABC is to enable and foster the development and growth of Asian American owned businesses.
Business, Technology, Cyber Risk Think Tank with a team of dynamic, experienced industry experts.

Chicago Java
Users Group
Chicago Java User’s Group is here to help the Java Professional. We want to make Chicago the ‘best’ place to be a Java developer, by offering a support network that allows each individual Java developer to grow.

AI Camp
AI Camp is a world-wide collaboration to make AI availavle to developers. It is present in 15+ countries, 50+ cities, with 300,000+ developers around the world
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.“
Charles Darwin, Author of On the Origin of Species, 1859





















