Dr. Hesam Panahi is a clinical assistant professor in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and founder of RED Labs, the university’s startup accelerator. Dr. Panahi teaches courses in management information systems and entrepreneurship, and is the organizing faculty member for 3 Day Startup, a technology entrepreneurship education program where students start building companies over the course of three days. He is also an organizer for Houston’s Startup Weekend. He received a Ph.D. and a Bachelors of Business Administration in Management Information Systems at the University of Houston.