Description: Join us for a special session of the Computing Startup Seminar featuring current PhD students launching startups! We have a panel with three exciting speakers:
• Nathan Arnold, UIUC Physics; co-founder and CEO, Photon Queue – memory for quantum computers (joining us in person)
• Akul Goyal, UIUC School of Computing and Data Science; founder, Provenance Security – redefining how security data is represented to provide context to LLM-driven automation (joining us via Zoom)
• Andy Zou, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department; co-founder and CTO, GreySwan – safety and security for the AI era (joining us via Zoom)
Zoom Link: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83796623621?pwd=aaYT5KXIWXQfkKPZbNb62cZoY1ahaE.1
Meeting ID: 837 9662 3621
Password: 814236
The panel will discuss the process of doing a startup as a PhD student – what’s the right moment to make the jump to a startup, balancing research and commercialization, how doing a PhD helped prepare for a startup and what it didn’t prepare you for, and more. Join us for a lively discussion!