The Guru Circle

Founded 2016

Overview

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.

Management Team

Co-founder

Greg Kestin

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.

Co-founder

David Krohn

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.