Dr. Gerard is an author/co-author of 3 books, multiple refereed academic papers and multiple industry-press articles.  He is recognized as dynamic speaker and educator with colleagues and clients at local, national, and international conferences and events, covering a wide range of topics in AI, ML, AIoT, big graphs, NLP and multiagent systems.  He was also a supplemental machine learning expert in a multi-week, data scientist training class.