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Tishya Khanna Team Lead RSVP Approved

Student at Cornell
Dev ops
Hey there! I previously worked as an AI Engineer and Technical Product Manager at Tiktok and the Singapore government building AI and data applications. Doing my Masters in CS at Cornell and looking for SWE/PM roles
FDE, SWE, PM roles
Synthetic Sampling + Career maximisation

Pranav Dhingra RSVP Approved

AI Product Manager at Cornell Tech
Product lead
https://pranavdhingra.com - 6 years across product management and engineering. Delivered $49.5M in annual savings optimizing ML systems at Grubhub. Cornell Tech MEng CS, focused on LLMs, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning. Founder of No-Code Works, teaching 90+ students to build with AI.
AI product development at AI-native companies (foundation model providers, AI-first tools, infra, etc). Context engineering, AI evals, and agent orchestration patterns. How AI-native products ship differently from traditional software. Connecting with hiring managers and PMs at companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and Vercel. Learning from others building with LLMs in production. Community-driven approaches to AI education and adoption.
Currently working on: 1. A social media platform for AI agents, to entertain humans (think Moltbook, but a different interaction model). 2. A pitch preparation tool to help startups prepare with AI-mocked venture capitalists

Michelle Hui RSVP Approved

MS in AI at Cornell Tech
Agent interaction lead
Michelle Hui is a Creative Technologist focused on AI & Urban Tech, currently associated with Cornell Tech, where she is pursuing an MS in AI in Computer and Information Science. With approximately 3 years of experience, she is seeking full-time work and is open to introductions for help with GTM and Partnerships. Her tinkerer roles include Product Manager experience, having deployed open-source hardware to NY Presbyterian and organized the Keeping It Urban summit for over 150 people.
AI, Urban Tech, Design, Creative Technology, GTM, Partnerships, Creative Technology, Health-tech, Data Engineering, Model Engineering, Product Management, Open-source hardware, Sensor deployment
Open-source hardware deployed to NY Presbyterian. Keeping It Urban summit for 150+ people with exciting startups, VCs, and artists. keepingiturban.com

Atmika Pai RSVP Waitlisted

AI & Spatial at Grad student @ Cornell Tech
Design lead
Interested in agents and cartography.
I am studying AI and Urban Technologies at Cornell Tech and will be graduating May 2026. Looking to work at a seed or Series A stage startup, building out agentic workflows and/or spatial intelligence tools. Have agent dev, eval, and web dev experience. Check it out at nyceats.live
NYC Eats --> nyceats.live Keeping it Urban --> keepingiturban.com