Opportunity for building AI ventures

Ishaq Khan ikhan05 at mit.edu
Thu Jan 30 17:49:35 EST 2025


Dear Postdocs.,

If you are interested in building AI ventures, Prof Raskar's is inviting a hand-full of post-docs to join his very popular AI Venture course. The course involves 80+ students, 20 VCs, a dozen professors as mentors and ends with a demo day that’s attended by top leaders in Boston area.

Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/L5f79WamdBYBdXHS9

MAS.665 AI Venture Studio class

Website: https://aiforimpact.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/aiforimpact.github.io/spring25.html__;!!NZvER7FxgEiBAiR_!tszyah6QLMSGKlg4h7t8Fz_8bQ-fpragGtvRZfgvBOdYH42emUtM_oypWPQHria9WvYMwN2LEhY0ZMgk9QJZ6KdnkKSpDUIRk_dD$>github.io<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/aiforimpact.github.io/spring25.html__;!!NZvER7FxgEiBAiR_!tszyah6QLMSGKlg4h7t8Fz_8bQ-fpragGtvRZfgvBOdYH42emUtM_oypWPQHria9WvYMwN2LEhY0ZMgk9QJZ6KdnkKSpDUIRk_dD$>
Class Schedule: Thursdays 10:00-12:00
Class highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOCBve0G3I


Instructors: Ramesh Raskar (Media Lab), Pulkit Agrawal (CSAIL), Sertac Karaman (LIDS), Serge Vasylechko (Harvard)

Leaders:John Werner, Sandy Pentland, David Blundin, Hossein Rahnama, Beth Porter, Mark Weber, Santanu Bhattacharya and more

Course #: MAS.665 / 15.375 / EC.731 / IDS.865
This hands-on practical course will teach you to master systematic methods for identifying high-impact real-world opportunities for AI applications, learn technical fundamentals of the modern AI stack, and gain hands-on experience with rapid prototyping and product development. The course features guest lectures from leading AI scientists, CEOs, VCs, and culminates in a demo day with top investors from the MIT ecosystem.

Previous speakers included Lex Fridman, Vinod Khosla, Grace Isaford, Neha Narula, Steve Jurvetson, Peter Diamandis, Paul English, Calvin Chin, Jason Pontin, Bilal Zuberi, and more. The course hosts many well-known AI figures as guest speakers. In the past, the course hosted guests from Deepmind, Google AI, Cohere, Hugging Face, Meta. MIT co-instructors included Pattie Maes, Daniela Rus, Roz Picard, Devavrat Shah, Cynthia Breazeal, Hari Balakrishnan.

Come launch your AI startup! Sign up now to secure your place, before the course fills up: https://aiforimpact.github.io/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/aiforimpact.github.io/__;!!NZvER7FxgEiBAiR_!tYdOmlJDnw6VTEfOzi4lBruvzN7N0m6ltFlBEZY-Npnrs0LpLKMokzfDYwwvBdHxSKQ_0MEmcjSfFUCfNN6SbRZtIzfE$>  Follow instructions on the website for Entrepreneurship Minor credits.


Kind regards
Khan
Vice-President Postdoctoral Association


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