Leanid Palkhouski, originally from Belarus, transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior. He quickly immersed himself in SCET offerings, and currently serves as the CEO of Wrodium, “a knowledge freshness infrastructure platform for AI-indexed enterprises.” A content engineering platform that optimizes for “knowledge freshness, factual consistency, and machine-readability,” Wrodium was accepted into the Berkeley SkyDeck…
Finn Metz first joined the SCET community after participating in the Startup Semester at Berkeley program at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2024. Originally from Germany, he studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich, and studied at Copenhagen Business School before attending UC Berkeley. Finn has dedicated himself to developing and investing…
Ace Por joined the SCET community as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Summer Venture Lab, a program designed for students to accelerate their early-stage technology startups. For the past two years, Ace has been building Palate, an AI-powered app designed to bring family and friends together through shared dining experiences and immortalize…
No longer a distant frontier, the AI-driven shift will undoubtedly continue to redefine global economies, industries, and institutions, a transformation that calls for strategic leadership of executives and policymakers. In the coming years, it is imperative to design systems that harmonize AI capabilities with human judgement and champion ethical AI governance at this critical intersection…
This spring, instructor Sepher Khosravi and course manager Mohamed Bukhari led Gen-AI Bootcamp, an online course offered through Berkeley Startup Studio. In just four weeks, students learned how to build and launch their own web app from scratch using AI. We connected with Mohammed Bukhari, to learn more about his journey and accomplishments beyond the…
Baptiste Vanpoperinghe and Amaury Grange first joined the SCET community in the fall of 2024 after participating in the Entrepreneurship, Technology & Startup Management Program. Fast forward to today, they are the founders of Pilea, a platform using AI to detect and fix subtle UX and design flaws on e-commerce websites, helping brands boost conversions…
This fall, SCET will offer a new Challenge Lab, ENGIN 183C-001: Regenerative Ventures: Build Innovations for a Better Future, taught by Rana Kanaan, founder of Makai Labs and seasoned technology product leader with over two decades of experience scaling innovations from zero to billion-dollar businesses. This course aims to present students with an opportunity to…
For the first time this fall, SCET will be offering a new course: ENGIN 183/283-006: Advanced Product Management: Strategy, Scale, and AI. The course will be taught by Laura Teclemariam, who is a product management executive and currently works as the senior director of product management at LinkedIn. As AI innovation and platform disruption continue…
As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Dylan Chiu studied Public Health and Political Economics and earned the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology. Today, he serves as a Principal at the Berkeley Frontier Fund, where he invests in the next generation of technology startups within the Berkeley network and gives back to UC Berkeley…