Artificial Intelligence

Colby Kash, D.C.

Colby Kash, D.C., (BSAPK ’17), is a co-founder and CEO of Camelot BioCapital, a biotechnology venture studio that seeks to bring technologies to life that increase the human health span. Dr. Kash is author of Amazon bestseller, The Autoimmune Plague: How to Regain Sovereignty Over Your Body and Life, is a wellness and longevity functional medicine practitioner.

He is a sought-after lecturer on healthcare-related topics featured by Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, The Epoch Times, Chiropractic Economics Magazine and Health Professional Radio. He is dedicated to improving the quality of health for all through the combination of modern health technologies and evolutionary biology.

Dr. Kash has a Doctor of Chiropractic and Master of Science in Applied Clinical Nutrition (Northeast College of Health Sciences), and a B.S. in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology (University of Florida College of Health and Human Performance). He holds additional certifications, including ADAPT Functional Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine-Certified Exercise Physiologist and National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Training.

Kristy Boyer, Ph.D.

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida.

Her research focuses on how intelligent systems can support human learning and sport across a variety of contexts including within classrooms, out-of-school settings, recreational sports, collegiate sports and elite/professional sport.

Her research group builds computational models of the processes and phenomena in these contexts, and these models drive the adaptivity of intelligent systems. The computational models in turn shed light on effective strategies for supporting human endeavors.

Boyer holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, an M.S. in Applied Statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Valdosta State University.  She has led more than $30M of external research funding, has been recognized with numerous Best Paper honors and was recognized with an NSF CAREER award.

Ron Gromoll

Ron Gromoll has been a General Manager in the hospitality industry for over thirty years managing limited service hotels to full service conference center hotels. He has been a hospitality instructor at both City College and the University of Florida.

His expertise is in guest services, staff development, and revenue and budget applications. He is a United States Marine, has an A.A.S. in Hotel & Restaurant Management from Luzerne County College and a B.S. in Business from Phoenix University. He has certifications from the American Hotel and Lodging Association in Hotel Administration and Hotel Education and a master certification in Essentials of Hospitality Management from Cornell University.

Scott Nestler, Ph.D., CAP, PStat

Scott Nestler, Ph.D., CAP, PStat, is a business analytics “pracademic” (practitioner-academic). He currently serves as a professor of practice in the Department of Sport Management in the UF College of Health & Human Performance, with a joint appointment in the Warrington College of Business.

He is also the Director/Owner of Analytic Solutions, LLC, a small analytics and data science consulting firm. Previously, he was Director, Research & Development, as well as Principal Data Scientist and Optimization Lead, at SumerSports.

Prior to that, he was Director, Statistics & Modeling at Accenture Federal Services. Previously, he was the Academic Director of the MS in Business Analytics program and is still an Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

Originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Scott is a 1989 graduate of Lehigh University with a BS in Civil Engineering where he received his commission as an officer through the U. S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps.

He earned a Ph.D. in Business and Management (Management Science and Finance) from the University of Maryland in 2007 and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1999. He also earned a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in 2013.

He retired from the U.S. Army as a Colonel in 2015. In his last Army assignment, Scott served as Director of Strategic Analytics at the Center for Army Analysis, an internal Army think tank. Scott’s other tours of duty include assignments as an Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School; Director of the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics at West Point; Chief of Strategic Assessments at the US Embassy—Baghdad; Force Structure Analyst in the Pentagon; and Director of Computer Operations at West Point.

Scott won the Barchi Prize from the Military Operations Research Society in 2010 and was recognized by INFORMS with the Volunteer Award (Gold Level) in 2019. Scott has earned and maintains the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) and Accredited Professional Statistician (PStat) certifications. He has published numerous articles and is co-author (with Wayne Winston and Kostas Pelechrinis) of the book “Mathletics.”

Celeste Wilkins, Ph.D.

Celest Wilkins, Ph.D., is a research scientist on the AI-Powered Athletics project, which aims to gain meaningful insights from large datasets of student-athlete performance using AI and Machine Learning.

Prior to joining UF she was a biomechanics specialist at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, the parent company of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs.

She received her doctoral degree in biomechanics from Hartpury University in the UK, where she elicited new classifications of horse rider technique using neural networks.