Mr. Benjamin Manning is a faculty member in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia and the Senior Data Analytics Mentor at the University of Texas-Austin and Rutgers University and has been a machine learning and data analytics consultant since 2001. He holds a master’s degree in engineering with an emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence and he is a current Engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. Previously, he served as National Assistant Dean at Devry University and was responsible for creating and implementing Big Data initiatives surrounding student retention and learning analytics.