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Many thanks to Chieh Huang for joining Columbia’s “Build an Agent Startup” seminar! Inspiring stories on connecting the dots and caring for the people behind the business. We ran out of time for “hustle and grind.” A good excuse to invite him back! #Entrepreneurship
Thanks to Jin Zhang, Ryan Luo, Yogesh Patil, Manas Gupta & Madison Hall for joining Columbia’s “Build an Agent Startup” seminar! Lean methodology, first PR to nearly 100 customers, and balancing AI research with customer needs.
Congrats to AegisAI on raising ~$50M! #AIAgents
Many thanks to Columbia alum Riyaan Bakhda from August for joining our “Build an Agent Startup” seminar! Great insights on agent customization, evals, model upgrades, and token credits.
A pleasure having you with us, Riyaan!
#AIAgents #ColumbiaUniversity
Many thanks to Columbia/Barnard alumni Apoorv Agarwal, @ketan_jog & Marina Senderos Garcia of Arata AI for sharing their tried-and-tested CAB approach to customer discovery in our Build an Agent Startup seminar! Our student founders can put it to work as they launch.
Huge thanks to @sriramkri for joining our Build an Agent Startup seminar at Columbia! Great insights on agents, robotics, vertical AI, and how his team evaluates startups, plus feedback on student projects and consumer GTM. Lots for our student founders to put into practice!
Hey @DarioAmodei, before AI automates 70% of customer service, can someone fix my Claude Code access? @AnthropicAI couldn't resolve my ticket and zero human reps have stepped in for over a month.
It's been 3+ weeks since I filed a support ticket and I still haven't heard from a human. Can someone @AnthropicAI look into this?
Kudos to Asaf Bord for an insightful talk in the Columbia DAP Lab seminar on building and deploying AI agents at a Fortune-100 insurance company.
Great to see real, production-grade agent systems making impact at scale 👏
Great having Maël and Columbia PhD alum Ziyuan from Squarepoint Ventures in my Agent for Work seminar yesterday. Students learned how they assess later-stage companies. Huge thanks to Maël and Ziyuan for sharing their insights!
Amazing lecture and panel by four Columbia ’24 founders/builders — Rutvik, Dominic, Alfonso & Sid — in my Agent for Work seminar! Students left truly inspired with sharp insights on customer discovery, fundraising, and market positioning.
Great to have Eunice Kokor (our own Columbia CS alum) and Fuad Ali from Arize join my 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 class yesterday to share their insights on AI and agent engineering
Great to welcome our very own Apoorv Agarwal, Ph.D. (co-founder & CEO of TextIQ, acquired by Relativity) & Jay Patel back to Columbia for an awesome guest lecture on customer discovery in my 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 class! Appreciate the real-world lessons from the trenches!
Thrilled to share that I received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award at SOSP 2025!
All (read: ALL) the research it recognizes was joint with amazing students, postdocs, and collaborators — I’m just the lucky representative.
Grateful to all who made it possible ♥️
Big thanks to @andiPartovi , co-founder of @veris_ai , for an insightful guest lecture in my Agent for Work class!
Great discussion on agent simulation environments — how tool mocking enables realistic simulation, evaluation, and optimization of agent behavior.
Congrats to @wunused for a great @acm_ccs ’25 talk on our joint Columbia–Brown–Purdue–Technion–Google–Socket work securing Pickle-based ML models! 🏆 Distinguished Artifact Award!
Very grateful to
@shaoxuhui
for joining my 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 class and leading such an insightful session on AI evolution, the full stack, and startup idea creation and validation. You left a lasting impression on everyone in the room!
Big thanks to JT for a passionate and engaging lecture in my 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 class. The students really valued hearing your perspective on how tech founders should approach sales—a critical skill rarely taught but absolutely essential for building successful companies!
Incredible session w/ Cy Khormaee and Ryan Guo in my Agent for Work seminar. Amazing prod and demo on agentic email security. Super inspiring for students to hear directly from founders building at the frontier of AI on their journeys. And big congrats on the $13M seed!
Great session in my Agent for Work seminar with @lauraham150, @dan_cahana from @notablecap. Students really appreciated the market and fundraising insights you shared. Big thanks for joining us!
