Since 2011, Tod has served as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Center for Digital Business at MIT, where he also judges the data science competition. He is the author or editor of seven books — including a bestseller on computer science and robotics written at the age of 16, and an anthology book series on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Tod was educated at Harvard and Oxford Universities, and has lectured at Stanford, MIT Sloan School, Harvard Business School, Babson College, and others.