Dec 12, 2025
Lunch with Prof. Yongjoo Park
Assistant Professor at Illinois CS and co-founder and Chief Scientist of Keebo, an AI-driven data learning platform. On what it takes to run a research group and a company at the same time.
Keebo
Events
Upcoming
Nothing on the calendar yet this term.
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Past events
Everyone below built a company out of research. Most of them started on this campus.
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Dec 8–9, 2025
Rajesh Karmani visit
Co-founder of First Intelligence, leading multimodal AI and agent workflows. He also founded Farmer's Fridge, which has raised $40M. Illinois CS PhD and Young Alumni Achievement Award recipient, 2017.
First Intelligence
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Dec 2, 2025
Joe Jablonski at Startup Seminar
Serial tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Ocient, which delivers high-speed analytics on petabyte-scale datasets.
Ocient
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Oct 28, 2025
Lunch with Nathan Arnold
Physics PhD student at Illinois and co-founder and CEO of Photon Queue, developing free-space quantum memory technologies. Proof that you can do both at once, from someone still doing both at once.
Photon Queue
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