Office Hours

Join the Deep Tech community: Office Hours

Hosted by Grit Ventures and Xiaoming Yin from Lockheed Ventures. This community includes monthly Zoom calls focused on specific challenges faced by early stage deep tech startups, for example: Fundraising Strategies and Milestones, Running a Successful Pilot, Business Models and ROI Calculations, Manufacturing Strategies, Building a Company Culture, Dual Use Strategies and more! If you are interested in attending, please fill out this quick survey.

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Each session we frame the problem and invite expert speakers to offer up insights and resources and then open it to discussion where Chatham House Rules applies. Founders will not only gain vital knowledge but also develop some useful peer relationships. We also have a Slack Channel where we share a lot of founder resources.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out this quick survey.

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Academic Council

Matt Travers, PhD.

Carnegie Mellon University, Systems Scientist, Robotics.

Christoffer Heckman, PhD.

University of Colorado, Boulder, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Leader of the Autonomous Robotics & Perception Group. Amazon Fellow.

Justin Hart, PhD.

The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science, Fellow affiliated with the Building-Wide Intelligence Project and the Learning Agents Research Group.

Joydeep Biswas, PhD.

The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Research includes: perception, planning, and failure recovery for autonomous mobile robots.

Changliu Liu, PhD.

Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Professor, Robotics Institute, Leads the Intelligent Control Lab, Research topics include: robotics and human robot interactions, control and motion planning, optimization and optimal control, multi-agent systems, and game theory.

Dorsa Sadigh, PhD.

Stanford University. Assistant Professor in Computer Science. Primary research is at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and control theory.

Monroe Kennedy, PhD.

Stanford University. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Director of the Assistive Robotics and Manipulation Lab (ARMLab). Founder of Black in Robotics.

Khurram Khan Afridi, PhD.

Cornell University. Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Primary research in high frequency power and energy systems. Repeat Entrepreneur.

Howie Choset, PhD.

PhD. Carnegie Mellon University. Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science. Biorobotics Lab. Repeat Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, The Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute, Bito Robotics, Hebi Robotics, Omnibus MD, and Medrobotics Corp.

Luis Sentis, PhD.

University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor, General Dynamic Endowed Faculty Fellowship. Primary areas of research: Controls, Autonomy, and Robotics. Leads the Human Centered Robotics Laboratory. Co-Founder of Apptronik.

Junfeng Jiao, PhD.

University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor, Hampton K. and Margaret Frye Snell Endowed Chair in Transportation. Primary areas of research: smart cities, transportation.