Empowering students and universities to succeed
Academics on a mission to help university staff and students optimize their potential.
Our mission
ProfessorMe is a leading edge Edtech training business with an AI-enabled platform enhancing student experiences, increasing universities’ capacity and performance. We have developed the world’s first digital-multilingual professor to interact and train university students. Our mission is to ensure staff and students have the support they need to be successful in their research and studies. Our multilingual avatar and AI enabled platform, Professor Dynamo, enhances the student experience while increasing universities’ capacity and performance.
Always empathetic, knowledgeable and personalised, our avatar Professor Dynamo is a unique, wise ‘Professor pal’ that produces and presents original training resources, demonstrating and explaining how to optimize potential. We share our insider knowledge, using our deep experience as top academics to digitally train students and university staff how to thrive.The courses are segmented into Bachelor’s (Undergraduate) or Graduate (Postgraduate) or Doctoral and Staff levels. Our AI-leveraged platform and online courses aim to support, inform and guide. With high academic achievements as the goal, ProfessorMe strives for results with warmth, compassion and understanding.
The Numbers
- Startups of the Year
- 2000
- Years of Academic Experience
- 0
- Students supported
- 0
- University Partnerships
- 5
Meet the team
The Academic Team at ProfessorMe
With 30+ years of experience, Dr. Kate Smith and the ProfessorMe team provide expert support to help students and staff excel in research, presentations, and study skills.
With decades of experience in learning and teaching and research, the team of academics at ProfessorMe is passionate about ensuring all university staff and students have access to excellent support. Founder and CEO Dr Kate Smith has spent more than 30 years in academia having worked at Harvard and Yale universities in the US and Edinburgh University and St Andrews University in the UK. Kate started an in-person academic training company in 2015 which pivoted online during lockdown. She then created Professor Dynamo as a digital resource to boost student experiences. During her career she found that some students needed to access supplementary courses on presentation skills or assignments, essay writing, dissertations, doctoral research or organisational skills.
Kate found staff also needed support in dealing with the day-to-day organisational and professional challenges of academic life. So, ProfessorMe created a range of support for staff including supervision, organization, leadership and working effectively with colleagues. Staff can benefit from courses on entrepreneurship, negotiation skills, media training and graduate attribute skillsets such as leadership skills. ProfessorMe’s work complements what universities already offer and has a wide range of applications in the Higher Education sector.
The team
Dr. Kate Smith
Co-Founder / CEO
Daisy McConville
Co-Founder / CPO
Dr. Ben McConville
Chief Academic Officer
Milly Stevenson
Digital Marketing Officer
Gill Donoghue
International Education Officer
Dr. Lucy Hall
Academic Content Officer