In addition, they partner with MS/MBAs to develop venture concepts in Technology Venture Immersion, an intensive January-term course that culminates in pitches to venture capital investors and seasoned entrepreneurs.
“The MS/MBA is clearly a program for ambitious people,” said Rob Howe, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering at SEAS and co-chair of the MS/MBA.
Oded Navon and Yarden Halperin, students in the MS/MBA program, drew on their real-world experiences as they worked on Rainbow, an easy-to-use visual platform for managing and automating cloud-based software and hardware.
Senior Kavya Koppaparu, a Roberts Family Fellow, also presented healthcare-related research, but her work was in an entirely different realm than Carpenter.
“I’ve done a lot of work at the intersection of AI and healthcare, and a driving factor for me has always been accessibility,” she said.
Some of the start-ups presented at the showcase offered direct-to-consumer products or services, such as Coolant, Roberts Family Fellow Michael Wu’s carbon credits marketplace, or “Regent,” MS/MBA student Weston Ruths’ AI-driven video game.
“It’s really cool if you can take a technology out of a SEAS lab and help an inventor figure out how to commercialize that,” said Tom Eisenmann, Howard H.
The Undergraduate Technology Innovations Fellows and MS/MBA programs allow students to mesh their entrepreneurial and technical interests in so many diverse ways.
“Entrepreneurship is not limited to just one area or one mode of thinking, and that’s what’s been really awesome about the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows program, the MS/MBA program, and the constant interconnected collaboration between the two,” said Yeo.
Tom Eisenmann, Howard H.