CMU Lab to Market - Fall 2025

Thursday, September 25, 2025
Simmons Room A, Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University

9:00 - 9:10 a.m. - Welcome & Opening Remarks

• Theresa Mayer, VP of Research, Carnegie Mellon University
• Meredith Meyer Grelli, Managing Director & Interim Exec Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship; Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives, School of Computer Science; Director, Project Olympus; Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

 9:10 - 9:50 a.m. - Panel: Intelligent Systems & Advanced Materials for Industrial Transformation
Panel Moderated by Anita Jesionowski, Senior Director of Research Partnerships & Entrepreneurship, College of Engineering

• Reeja Jayan, Founder & CEO, SeaLion Energy; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
• Brandon Lucia, Co-Founder & CEO, Efficient Computer; Kavčić-Moura Professor, ECE
• Carmel Majidi, Founder & CTO, Arieca; Clarence H. Adamson Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Calum Munro, Associate Fellow, PPG Industries
• Andrew Tan, Managing Director, Salience Capital

10:10 - 10:50 a.m. - Panel: Embodied AI
Panel Moderated by Martial Hebert, Dean and University Professor of Robotics, School of Computer Science

• Katerina Fragkiadaki, JPMorgan Chase Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Machine Learning Department
• Han Hua, Stealth Angel Investor
• Changliu Liu, Founder, Instinct Robotics; Associate Professor, Robotics Institute
• Tuomas Sandholm, Founder, President, and CEO, Strategy Robot, Inc.

10:55 - 11:00 a.m. - Demo Video & Tech Talk Featuring Newell Washburn, Ansatz

• Newell Washburn, Co-Founder & President, Ansatz

11:00 - 11:40 a.m. - Panel: Agents Gone Wild: Robustness of Security & Reliability
Panel Moderated by Allison Lechnir, Partner, Hyde Park Venture Partners

• Matt Fredrikson, Co-Founder & CEO, Gray Swan; Associate Professor, School of Computer Science
• Yucheng Low, Co-Founder & CEO, XetHub (acquired by Hugging Face)
• Chris Martin, Senior Director, Responsible AI, BNY Mellon
• Pradeep Ravikumar, Co-Founder, Woodwide AI; Professor Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science
• Norman Sadeh, Founding CEO, Wombat Security Technologies (Sold to Proofpoint); Professor of Computer Science, Software and Societal Systems Department; Co-Director, Privacy Engineering Program 

12:00 - 12:40 p.m. - Fireside Keynote: Abhay Parasnis
Interviewed by Isabell Bajeux, Dean and Richard P. Simmons Professor of Finance, Tepper School of Business

• Abhay Parasnis, Managing Partner, Salience Capital; Founder & CEO, Typeface; Former CTO & CPO, Adobe

12:55 - 1:00 p.m. - Demo Video & Tech Talk Featuring Marios Savvides, Ultron AI

• Mario Savvides, Founder & CEO, Ultron AI; Bossa Nova Robotics Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, CyLab Biometrics Center

1:00 - 1:40 p.m. - Panel: Next Frontier Intelligent Life Sciences  
Panel Moderated by Alison Snyder, Senior Writer, Google DeepMind

• Keith Cook, Chief Strategy Officer, Advanced Respiratory Technologies; Professor and Department Head, Director of the Bioengineered Organs Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University
• Andrew Hudson, Senior Director of Tissue Therapeutics; Co-Founder, FluidForm Bio
• Anna Mamo, Director, Translational Sciences, UPMC Enterprises
• Jonathan Minden, Founder & CEO, Impact Proteomics, LLC; Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

1:40 - 1:50 p.m. - Closing Remarks

• Namrata Banerjee, Senior Director, CMU VentureBridge, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
• Meredith Meyer Grelli, Managing Director & Interim Exec Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship; Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives, School of Computer Science; Director, Project Olympus; Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

Fall 2025 Planning Committee

• Meredith Meyer Grelli, Chair, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Project Olympus, & Tepper School of Business
• Namrata Banerjee, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
• Jenny Belardi, School of Computer Science
• Cindy Chepanoske, Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation
• Matthew Christian, Office of Research
• Edward Dunlea, Mellon College of Science
• Sonya Ford, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
• Steven Guo, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
• Allyson Hince, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship
• Jim Jen, Corporate Startup Lab

CMU Lab to Market - Spring 2025

Thursday, March 27, 2025
Pear VC, 1800 Owens St, San Francisco, CA 94158

11:30 - 11:35 a.m. - Welcome & Opening Remarks

• Theresa Mayer, VP of Research, Carnegie Mellon University
• Meredith Meyer Grelli, Managing Director & Interim Exec Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship; Assistant Dean of Entrepreneurship Initiatives, School of Computer Science; Director, Project Olympus; Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

11:35 - 11:55 a.m. - Breakthrough Research Across Verticals
Panel Moderated by Theresa Mayer, VP of Research, Carnegie Mellon University

• Alex Acero, Venture Partner, Cadenza; former Microsoft and Apple
• Larry Pileggi, Co-Founder & Chairman, Pearl Street Technologies; Coraluppi Head and Tanoto Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Arash Afrakhteh, Partner, Pear VC

11:55 - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch & Lightning Talks
Introduced by Justin Krauss, Managing Director, Head of AppliedTechnology, Innovation Economy, JP Morgan

• 12:20 - 12:40 p.m.
  • Zach Lipton, CTO/CSO at Abridge
  • Raj Reddy, Associate Professor of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon
  • Hanseul Nam, Partner, Spark Capital
• 12:40 - 1:00 p.m.
  • Anupam Datta, Co-Founder, Truera; AI at Snowflake
  • Jerry Chen, General Partner, Greylock
• 1:00 - 1:20 p.m.
  • Vyas Sekar, Co-founder/Chief Technologist Rockfish Data; Tan Family Chair Professor at Carnegie Mellon University,
  • Anupam Rastogi, Managing Partner, Emergent Capital
  • Priya Ramachandran, Founder & General Partner, Foster Ventures

1:40 - 2:25 p.m. - Deep Dive into a Horizontal: Robotics Applied
Panel Moderated by Matthew Johnson Roberson, Director, Robotics Institute; Co-Founder, Refraction AI 

• Howie Choset, Kavčić-Moura CS Professor of Robotics; Co-Founder, JP Robotics
• Herman Herman, Director, National Robotics Engineering Center; Co-Founder & CTO, Carnegie Foundry
• Xiaoyu Kaess, Co-Founder & COO, Aquatonomy
• George Kantor, Research Professor, Robotics Institute; Co-Founder Bloomfield Robotics

2:45 - 3:30 p.m. - Trustworthy AI
Panel Moderated by Martial Hebert, Dean, School of Computer Science

• Zico Kolter, Co-Founder, Gray Swan; Open AI Board Member; Professor and Director of the Machine Learning Department with the School of Computer Science
• Graham Neubig, Chief Scientist, All Hands AI; Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Gauri Joshi, AI Edge; Associate Professor Electrical & ComputeEngineering
• Scott Dietzen, Co-Founder & CEO, Augment

3:30 - 3:40 p.m. - Closing Remarks

• Theresa Mayer, VP of Research, Carnegie Mellon University