Alex Kotran co-founded aiEDU in 2019 after discovering that the Akron Public Schools did not offer any courses or learning about AI.
Kotran has a decade of experience in the AI space. In 2015, he joined Opower, the first company to use machine learning to help utility companies reduce energy demand. In 2018, he was hired to launch the social impact arm of H5, a company that pioneered language models in the legal sector. At H5, Kotran built a global judicial training program with the National Judicial College and organized dozens of AI Governance summits with organizations including UNESCO, Stanford Law, NYU Law, and the European Commission.
Kotran began his career as a community organizer, working on President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and as an appointee under the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, where he managed state-level outreach for the Affordable Care Act.
Kotran studied political science and government at the Ohio State University.