Richard Kiely

As the Associate Vice Provost for Engagement and Land-Grant Affairs and the Director of Academic Initiatives in the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, Richard Kiely stewards the design and implementation of the Engaged College Initiative and oversees academic programs and … more

Ellen Topitzhofer

Ellen Topitzhofer has been working with beekeepers mastering on-the-ground testing and applicable research since 2012. She has spent most of her working career in the Northwest — a place that offers paid pollination in 15 different crops and average honey … more

Nakeschi Watkins

Nakeschi Watkins is the Director, Risk Management, and Insurance at Cornell University. Nakeschi joined Cornell in 2018, In this position she oversees risk management and insurance. During her 17+ career she has served in various roles of risk management including … more

Lutz Finger

Lutz Finger is a Silicon Valley technologist and Cornell faculty member with 20+ years of experience building AI-driven products and platforms at Google, LinkedIn, and Snap. He is a serial entrepreneur (R2Decide, acquired in 2025; Fisheye Analytics, acquired in 2013) … more

Leslie Danks Burke

Leslie K. Danks Burke, J.D., is a lawyer, adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, and adjunct full Professor in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). Her career in tax, international … more

Alex Woltornist

Frank Pasquale

Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine learning. Professor Pasquale’s books include The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press, 2015) … more

Samuel Gutekunst

Sam Gutekunst is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Data Science at Bucknell University, with appointments in the departments of Computer Science and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2020, … more

Frans Schalekamp

Frans Schalekamp received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2007. He has worked both in academia and in industry on three continents, in areas ranging from plant breeding and genetics to logistics. Former academic positions were at … more