Dr. Edwin Tjoe is the Director of the Talent Development & Learning Center (TDLC) at Stony Brook University Hospital, which has over 8,000 employees. Dr. Tjoe was with St. John's University for several years before his current position. His last role was Director of Fiscal Affairs & Human Resources in the School of Education. His research and teaching focus on preparing forward-thinking leaders and learners.

Dr. Tjoe has over 20 years of administrative experience in higher education and teaching experience with undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. Dr. Tjoe has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at St. John's University since 2006 and has lectured at Stony Brook University since 2005. Over the past 20 years, he has taught over 40,000 students in different teaching modalities. Dr. Tjoe was also a member of the SUNY FACT Committee that developed the 2014 CIT that focused on connection strategies to move higher education forward using assessment strategies and learning analytics as a key to understanding the effectiveness of learning and the changing learning environments. He has also worked with over 50 doctoral students as a committee member for their dissertations. He is an inspired leader, working to ensure understanding and respect between all people by recognizing diversity as a central component in achieving desired student/teacher/administrative learning outcomes, and it puts diversity and inclusion efforts at the center of its decision-making.