Acorn Social

Boyang Zhang

Boyang Zhang is an engineer who enjoys working on ideas with a positive societal impact. He is a prominent event host with more than 30 large-group social events hosted in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. He has previously launched several successful products in the entertainment field and has both research and industry software development experience.

Kevin Calopisis

Kevin Calopisis is a software developer a second-year data science student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor College of Engineering. Kevin has interned at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer Intern with experience delivering a product to users. He focuses on and user-centered development. He also has experience as a teaching assistant for Data Structures and Algorithms.

Rafe Symonds

Rafe Symonds is a computer science and engineering student at the University of Michigan. He has interned at Charles Schwab and TechSmith, where he worked on backend systems and critical software features that people rely on every day. He has also teaches as game development instructor, helping students bring their creative ideas to life through programming and design.

Sophie Lin

Sophie Lin knows firsthand how technology can be utilized to create real friendships. A student of the University of Southern California during the COVID-19 pandemic, she connected with her community and made lifelong friends through online platforms, and now she wants to help others form genuine, lasting connections.

Robert Dick

Robert Dick’s advises on entrepreneurship, AI/ML systems, and algorithm design. He is also a Professor at the University of Michigan and IEEE Fellow. Several of his technologies have been mass-market commercial successes. He was founding CEO of Stryd, which invented the athletic wearable power meter and leads the market. His 160 publications mostly on AI/ML and embedded systems have been cited 13,000 times.