Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Michael

Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.

Deepak

I am an Assistant Professor in CS at UIUC. I research AI-driven networking spanning Earth and space. Currently exploring the AI startup space.

Kyle

Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.

Michael

Michael Lai's six word story is “failed professional athlete, striving education entrepreneur.” He is currently building Tinycare, a network of micro daycares aiming to fix the childcare crisis. Previously, he built Promise, a nonprofit venture studio for early childhood development, Minerva Project, Google.org, and competed on Harvard's varsity golf team (where he was decidedly NOT the next Tiger Woods). His passion for education starts from the classroom — 6 years volunteer teaching preschool, elementary, and middle school.

Ben

Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he was a background in systems engineering and pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.

Yuguang

A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years

Palash

Building an AI co-pilot for playable ads to help mobile gaming teams. Studied CSE at IIT Bombay. Spent 2 years at Samsung HQ, Korea as a software engineer. Worked at CRED ($6B fintech) in product. Built AI-driven personal growth products as part of an early stage startup—learnt a lot, but wouldn’t recommend it as a business.

Jacopo

I do AI, dataOps and MLOps through open source and open science. I was once a founder (Tooso, acquired by TSX:CVO) and will likely be a founder again.

Matt

Matt is working full-time on starting a climate-tech company. Previously, he was Head of Engineering at Studio and an ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He spends his free time playing music, skateboarding, and nerding out about space travel and TTRPGs.

Shishira

Shishira is a PhD student at UMD working on video compression and understanding. He has experience with labs at Snap and Apple and was also a researcher at IISc Bangalore. Currently passionate about building systems that understand the world!