Projects ranging from robotic process automation to prediction models powered by artificial intelligence have flourished since the official launch of the Disruption Lab at Gies College of Business in January. The Lab has garnered participation from some 60 students from 28 disciplines spanning the campus, six faculty and staff members, and a handful of interested foundational partners from outside the University.

With those early successes in hand, Dr. Robert Brunner, director of the Disruption Lab, is leveraging the momentum and setting his sights on launching a new phase of the fledgling Lab’s ambitious agenda: a skunkworks operation that will bring together collaborators from inside and outside the university to develop projects with practical application for Gies, the larger University, and partners in the business world.