Scott Alan Turner, MSDS

I'm a founder and operator who teaches AI and data analytics at the University of Richmond and Weatherford College. I've spent my entire career at startups, building, and running businesses.

In the classroom, I focus on how technology actually gets used inside real organizations - where decisions are imperfect, resources are limited, and outcomes matter. My courses are built around execution, tradeoffs, and judgment, not theory for theory's sake.

Alongside teaching, I have side projects I work on. I'm helping one company incorporate AI to scale toward an exit, and building SportSensAI, an applied AI startup focused on performance and injury reduction. That hands-on work shapes how I think about and teach AI - as a practical tool for real decisions, not something abstract or academic.