Selected media coverage, interviews, and profiles. Highlights below; the complete media list has everything.

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Highlights

CNBC Disruptor 50 Academic Advisory Board
CNBC
2024–present
Member profile and advisory role.
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“My Avatar Teaches In Any Language’: Inside Gies’ Radical AI-Driven Curriculum Revolution”
Poets&Quants (originally AACSB Insights)
October 2025
Feature by Dean Brooke Elliott discussing AI-driven business education and avatar-based instruction at Gies.
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“Illini Insider | The future of AI: In the home, on the battlefield, in space, sports and beyond”
News-Gazette
June 2025
Interview on the future of artificial intelligence and its societal impacts.
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“Innovation: Using Faculty Avatars & AI In An MBA Classroom”
Poets&Quants
October 2023
In-depth feature on avatar-based teaching and AI course design.
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“Implementing AI Technology in Business Education”
AACSB Insights
November 2023
Discussion of AI integration in business curricula and pedagogical implications.
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“Illinois Business Professor Creates AI Double to Teach Class”
GovTech
November 2023
Coverage of AI avatar teaching methods and implications for online education.
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“Q&A: What impact will the Biden administration’s AI order have?”
Tech Xplore
November 2023
Discussion of AI executive order policy implications and regulatory concerns.
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“Podcast: Gies Chief Disruption Officer Robert Brunner”
Gies College of Business
August 2023
Podcast interview on artificial intelligence, blockchain, and futuristic technologies in business education.
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“Disruption and Innovation at Gies Business”
Poets&Quants
May 2021
Feature on the Chief Disruption Officer role and innovation initiatives at Gies.
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Instructor Profile
Coursera
Teaching profile for AI and business courses reaching global audiences.
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For everything else, including earlier coverage of blockchain, the metaverse, and cryptocurrency, see the complete media list.