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Caps off to the Class of 2026! 🎓🎉 From bold ideas to real-world impact, you’ve pushed boundaries, built what’s next, and redefined what’s possible in tech. We can’t wait to see where you go from here — congratulations, graduates! Special thanks to Cornell University President Michael I. Kotlikoff and Cornell Tech Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost Greg Morrisett, who delivered inspiring remarks to our amazing grads. #CornellTech #Classof2026 @cornelluniversity @cornelleng @cornell.law.school @cornellbowerscis @cornellmba @technion.israel

Class of 2026, you came to Cornell Tech to build the future — and now you’re ready to lead it. Congratulations! 🎓🚀 #CornellTech #Classof2026 @cornelluniversity @cornelleng @cornell.law.school @cornellbowerscis @cornellmba

From pitch to possibility — Cornell Tech’s 2026 Startup Awards + Open Studio showcased the next generation of founders building what’s next. 🚀 The Startup Awards + Open Studio is an important part of Cornell Tech’s re-imagination of graduate tech education. The annual event includes demo tables from our students, faculty, and community partners, showcasing what they have accomplished this year, as well as presentations from Startup Award finalists. Startup Awards are post-academic $100,000 investments in pre-seed stage companies founded by one or more current Cornell Tech students. A panel of tech industry leaders and executives, along with members of the Cornell and Cornell Tech faculty and staff, selects up to five winning student teams each year. Cornell Tech’s 2026 Startup Award winners were Aiseptor, Custos, Kindred, and Lola. Two runner-ups were also selected: CoagHealth and MedComm. Congratulations to each of the winning teams! 🏆 #CornellTech #StartupAwards #CornellAI @cornelluniversity @cornelleng @cornell.law.school @cornellbowerscis @cornellmba @technion.israel @sorkinsays

A huge thank you to the nearly 600 guests who joined us for Cornell Tech’s 2026 Startup Awards + Open Studio! This year’s presenters tackled some of the most consequential problems in tech today — from AI safety and agentic systems to predictive healthcare, satellite collision risk, and the future of legal and financial decision-making. Special thanks to our panel of judges, Momo Bi, JCT MBA ‘15, Partner at Human Prosperity Studio; Amanda Eilian, Co-Founder and Partner of __able Partners; Jenny Fielding, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures and Co-Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech; Josh Hartmann, Chief Practice Officer at Cornell Tech; Howard Morgan, Chairman of B-Capital Group; Joshua Ruch, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rho Capital Partners; Sam Dix, Founder of aThereThere and Co-Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech; Alberto Escarlate, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tough Day and Co-Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech; Fernando Gómez-Baquero, Director of Runway and Spinouts at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Instituteat Cornell Tech; Aaron Holiday, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 645 Ventures; and Greg Morrisett, Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost at Cornell Tech. Finally, thank you to judge and special guest announcer Andrew Ross Sorkin, Founder and Editor-at-Large at The New York Times DealBook, Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box, Author of “1929” and “Too Big to Fail”, and Co-Creator of Showtime’s “Billions”, for presenting the 2026 Startup Awards. #CornellTech #StartupAwards #CornellAI @cornelluniversity @cornelleng @cornell.law.school @cornellbowerscis @cornellmba @technion.israel @sorkinsays

Open-source made the AI boom possible, but what role does it play now? In a keynote conversation, Soumith Chintala, chief technology officer of Thinking Machines, will sit down with Cornell Tech associate professor Yoav Artzi to discuss the open source tools shaping today’s AI ecosystem. This conversation is part of the Frontiers of AI Summit, a gathering at Cornell Tech on May 27 focused on understanding how AI works today, and what’s coming next. Designed for those shaping the future of AI, the summit is intended for technical industry leaders, including research directors, engineers, principal scientists, AI-focused venture capital leaders, AI heads, and chief technology officers. Learn more and request to attend: Link in bio. #FoAISummit

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Startup Awards: Aiseptor, Custos, Kindred, and Lola! 🏆 Learn more about the awards: Link in bio. Aiseptor is a zero-trust security layer for high-stakes assessments that shifts the industry from probabilistic detection to deterministic prevention, making AI exam fraud fundamentally harder. Custos enables safe AI agent-driven payments with programmable policies, real-time controls, and full auditability across existing payment rails. Kindred makes sure products that matter most reach markets faster. Its deterministic reasoning engine turns thousands of pages of regulation into defensible filings, scaling products across borders and verticals. Lola leverages agentic AI to turn knowledge into consistent judgment, automating decisions at the speed of growth. CoagHealth and MedComm were selected as runner-ups. Each team will receive an investment valued at $100,000 in their company, including co-working space in the Tata Innovation Center. #CornellTech #StartupAwards @cornelluniversity @cornelleng @cornell.law.school @cornellbowerscis @cornellmba @technion.israel

Our final Studio final!! In Associate Professor Jesse LeCavalier’s studio “Not Not Buildings: Data Centers and the Politics and Aesthetics of Infrastructure,” students explored data centers as a new building type that contributes to civic infrastructure. We are so fortunate to have as guest critics (pictured, from left): - Maia Woluchem, director, Data + Society - Laurie Hawkinson, principal, Smith-Miller Hawkinson - Kimberly Yao, principal, ARO - Forrest Meggers, Princeton University - Daniel English, Legacy Investing - Kate Crawford, USC, author, Atlas of AI (Yale University Press). - Jason Long, partner, OMA Pictures: Students Jenny Ye and Cheng Nam (Damon) Ho (both M.Arch 2026) @cornellaap @cornell_tech @cornellarchitecture @lecavalier.r.and.d @maiawoluchem at @dataandsociety @laurie_hawkinson of @smithmiller_hawkinson @kim__yao of @architecture.research.office @chaos_of_forrest of @princetonarchitecture @da.english @__katecrawford__ @jlong_ of @omanewyork

Announcing startup company NYX Labs as a finalist in the 2026 Startup Awards competition on May 14 at Cornell Tech’s Startup Awards + Open Studio! NYX Labs, founded by Theodoros Chronopoulos, ORIE ‘26, is an AI engine that designs a custom compressor for your data. Join us for Cornell Tech's Spring 2026 Startup Awards + Open Studio! Eleven of our top student teams will be competing for $100,000 of investment in their startup ventures. Additionally, our students and faculty will be showcasing their innovative research and projects. The event features presentations from Startup Award finalists, demo tables, and opportunities for attendees to engage with the Cornell Tech community. Learn more and RSVP: Link in bio. #StartupAwards #CornellTech @cornelleng

Our MS. AUD students’ final review! Instructed by Kobi Ruthenberg and Garine Boghossian of ORG, the studio focuses on the real estate alongside the IBX (Interborough Expressway), a 14-mile freight line now being developed by the MTA as a light rail that will connect underserved areas of Brooklyn and Queens. Thanks to guest critics! - Daphne Lasky, AIA, MTA - Erick Gregory, LEED AIA, Dept City Planning - Robert Balder, Exec Dir, Gensler Family AAP NYC Center - Jesse LeCavalier, Director, MS. AUD program - Matthijs Bouw, AIA IA, founder ONE Architecture - Miriam Harris, Senior VP, Transit-oriented Development, MTA Student Tina Zhang (MS. AUD ‘26) presents her project. @kobi_ruthenberg @garine.boghossian @thisis_org @matthijsbouw @one_arch_urb @erick.t.gregory @jesse_lecavalier @balderrobert @miriamharris2420 @cornellaap @cornell_tech

Announcing startup company Kindred as a finalist in the 2026 Startup Awards competition on May 14 at Cornell Tech’s Startup Awards + Open Studio! Kindred, co-founded by Julia Klingberg, LLM ‘26, and Aagam Bakliwal, CS ‘26, makes sure products that matter most reach markets faster. Its deterministic reasoning engine turns thousands of pages of regulation into defensible filings, scaling products across borders and verticals. Join us for Cornell Tech's Spring 2026 Startup Awards + Open Studio! Eleven of our top student teams will be competing for $100,000 of investment in their startup ventures. Additionally, our students and faculty will be showcasing their innovative research and projects. The event features presentations from Startup Award finalists, demo tables, and opportunities for attendees to engage with the Cornell Tech community. Learn more and RSVP: Link in bio. #StartupAwards #CornellTech @cornell.law.school @cornell.bowers

The inaugural Frontiers of AI Summit brings together technical industry leaders at the forefront of artificial intelligence — research directors, engineers, principal scientists, AI-focused venture capital leaders, AI heads, and chief technology officers — to hear from and engage with groundbreaking researchers, founders, industry leaders, and public thinkers. Explore the full speaker lineup — featuring leaders from Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bloomberg, the Simons Foundation, Biohub, and more — and see who’s joining the conversation on the future of AI. This coming May 27 at the Cornell Tech campus in NYC. Learn more and request to attend: Link in bio. #FoAISummit

Student spotlight: Tobias Weinberg, computer science doctoral candidate Tobias Weinberg studies the reframing of augmentative and alternative communication technology as a medium of expression, challenging the assumptions of what communication is for. "Cornell Tech’s position at the intersection of technology and real-world impact made it the right fit for research that refuses to stay purely theoretical." Read more using the Student and Alumni Spotlights link in bio.