{"id":61642,"date":"2026-07-10T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unhz.eu\/?p=61642"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:37:15","slug":"unisum-2026-professor-spotlight-brian-gillikin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unhz.eu\/bs\/blog\/unisum-2026-professor-spotlight-brian-gillikin\/","title":{"rendered":"UNISUM 2026 Professor Spotlight: Brian Gillikin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhz.eu\">University \u201cHaxhi Zeka<\/a>\u201d International summer University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhz.eu\">UNISUM<\/a> 2026, <\/strong>Brian Gillikinwill co-teach the course\u201c<strong>Applied AI for Business Informatics\u201d <\/strong>together with<strong> Prof. <\/strong><strong>Ylber Januzaj<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian Gillikin is a Lead Data Scientist at IBM and an Adjunct Professor of Applied Data Science at the University of Maryland\u2019s College of Information Studies. 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