Dave Crusoe

Co-Founder Dave Crusoe has invented and produced a variety of educational and social technologies. He began his career with ThinkQuest for Tomorrow’s Teachers, and moved on to complete two degrees through the Harvard Graduate School of Education (TIE & MBE). Prior to co-founding the PLML, he assisted in the startup of a family literacy program, Connecting through Literacy Inmates, Children and Caregivers, designed to establish positive educational relationships between incarcerated parents and their children. He was also an Education Pioneer Fellow (2007) with Citizen Schools, where he continued to contribute through 2010.

In his off-time, he writes children’s books with his wife Laila, dotes over the spread of tangly garden, uses the biological and molecular properties of food ingredients to grow strange foods and applies geology as a caver with the UT Grotto and Boston Grotto.

Albert Liau

The formidable Dr. Liau is exceptionally well-rounded, with a background in Lakoffian cognitive linguistics, neuro+biology and data design. His role is with the EdU Data Project and PLML’s data literacy research and development. He also teaches Biology and Human Impact on the Environment at Lesley University. Which is to say that he’s one busy guy!

Mircea-Sebastian Rabaea

Mircea is one-half our all-star development team. He’s responsible for the awesomeness of Glean PEMDAS and our other new tools and, when not determine to perform a new programming feat, can be found contentedly fishing.

Robert Sibley

Co-Founder Robert Sibley has created and directed a broad range of educational programs including ThinkQuest Junior, ScienceQuest, ThinkQuest for Tomorrow’s Teachers and Exploring the Future of Learning at Advanced Network and Services. More recently, he helped develop environmental education programs for Clean Air-Cool Planet, The Connecticut Science Center Collaborative, and the Power of One Foundation.

Robert has served on national education advisory boards, contributed to a college textbook on digital equity in education, and received the 1998 Global Information Infrastructure Award (GII) for Education. He has a Masters degree in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

If shirking his duties as a fine father and husband, he can be spotted re-engineering the landscape, structure or architecture of his Connecticut home. His re-engineering, in particular, his ability to single-handedly materialize a stone wall, has been featured in the news.

Dmytro Tverdokhlib

Dimic is the other half of PLML’s all-star development team. He’s working on the top-secret EdU Data Engine, part of our measurement and analytic system and without question, a behemoth. Outside of programming the giant EdU Data, he treks the back-country of Europe by bike!