The Guru Circle

We build expertise networks for universities to help faculty with their research and boost alumni engagement.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Currency USD

Company Summary

Universities are large sprawling organizations with knowledgeable faculty and loyal alumni, yet the expertise to be found within these communities is often vastly underutilized. To fix this we have created an expertise finding network to be licensed for use within universities and their alumni communities. Our system helps automatically create expertise profiles, provides a powerful search functionality, and makes communication very easy.

Team

  • Greg Kestin
    Co-founder

    Greg is a PhD student studying theoretical particle physics at Harvard. He has an active interest in the use of technology in education. He directed a team of four creating online tools for Harvard’s Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows program, and worked as an educational video consultant for Harvard’s Academic Technology Group. Greg focuses on growing a user base and refining the user experience.

  • David Krohn
    Co-founder

    David received his PhD in theoretical particle physics at Princeton, and is currently a Simons postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. His experience is more on the technical side - he is experienced in algorithm design, databases (MongoDB, Neo4j, MySQL), web development (Django, Coffeescript, Backbone), and cloud services like Amazon’s EC2. David is responsible for the backend development and splits front-end design responsibilities with Greg.

  • David Krohn

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