The Pava Center + Computer Science Networking Night welcomes computer science students interested in connecting with industry leaders and like-minded peers. This event is for anyone who is building a startup utilizing AI or those curious about the requirements for doing so and will explore how the AI boom will shape startups and technology in the coming years. If you’re curious about joining or founding a startup, or looking to grow your startup, particularly in the software and artificial intelligence sectors – register today!
Join us on Monday, March 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for an engaging evening featuring:
- Opportunities to network with peers and current AI and software student teams
- Fireside chat with two accomplished alumni in the AI/software space – Q&A included
- Buffet dinner provided by the Pava Center
Alumni Guests:
Brandon Duderstadt (WSE ’18, ’19) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic, a company focused on making AI more explainable and accessible. Through his work at Nomic, he has released several of the most popular AI products in the world. These include GPT4All, the first open-source language model to surpass GPT3.5’s performance, as well as Nomic Embed, an open source embedding model that accounts for ~5% of all Hugging Face model downloads. Before Nomic, Duderstadt trained and deployed AI systems in a wide variety of domains, including robotics at Carnegie Robotics, defense at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, medicine at Google backed startup Rad AI, and finance at Block. His work has been featured at AI conferences including ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, and VisxAI, as well as in mainstream publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Forbes. Read about Nomic’s Series A here.
Nick Culbertson is the CEO of Protenus, a Baltimore-based AI company that brings automation and risk reduction to healthcare compliance. Under Culbertson’s leadership, Protenus has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence, by CB Insights as one of the Most Innovative Digital Health Startups, by Forbes as one of America’s Top Startup Employers, and by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Culbertson was named one of “Healthcare’s Entrepreneurs to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review and was recognized as one of Baltimore’s Top 40 under 40 and EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Culbertson is a lead contributor to over 20 patents and co-author to several peer-reviewed articles. Prior to co-founding Protenus, Culbertson served eight years in the U.S. Army as a highly decorated U.S. Special Forces Operator (Green Beret) and Advanced Tactical Practitioner. He holds a B.S. from The Johns Hopkins University and has research experience in the fields of genetics, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and medicine. Currently, Culbertson serves on the executive board of The 6th Branch, a veteran-led community service organization in East Baltimore. Culbertson is also an active volunteer with several Baltimore initiatives focused on entrepreneurship and innovation in the Baltimore tech community. Read about Bluesight’s acquisition of Protenus here.