Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
News The Local Entrepreneur Creates an Everyday Alternative for the Guy-on-the-go. WHO TO WATCH: RAMZI ASSAF The local entrepreneur creates an everyday alternative for the guy-on-the-go. AGE: 26. LIVES IN: The Loop. CLAIM TO FAME: CEO and founder of Portefini (Portefini.com), a local menswear startup. BACKSTORY: Born and raised...
News Unique Programming Environment Uses New Techniques to Enable Everyday Coding with Graphical User Interfaces Ravi Chugh, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at the University of Chicago, is developing programming language technology for applications in software engineering and human-computer interaction. “Software...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
News Improving Precollege Education Last October, top-ranking representatives from McGraw-Hill spent a day on campus meeting with the authors, researchers and administrators responsible for creating some of the best, most widely used preK-12 math...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 5 Episode 5: Foxtrot May 13, 2021 Foxtrot cofounder and CEO Mike LaVitola, MBA ’14, has become expert at hearing “no.” He was not initially accepted into the New Venture Challenge,...
News Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2026: Beyond the Hype Last week, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Chicago Booth’s Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Group hosted the Rattan L. Khosa SeedCon 2026, the University of Chicago’s flagship...
Technology Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence For Rapid Multi-Task Learning Multi-task learning is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Biologically-inspired recurrent neural networks (RNNs), trained using backpropagation, can learn an…
News Polsky’s Small Business Growth Program Accepts 10 Companies into Winter Cohort The Polsky Small Business Growth Program has announced its Winter 2020 cohort, which is made up of small businesses located in the South and West Side of Chicago.
Technology Deep Learning Uncertainty Quantification System For Reliable Cancer Histopathology Diagnosis Deep learning and uncertainty estimation (via Monte Carlo dropout and cross-validation) to classify digital pathology images by confidence, improving reliability in cancer diagnostics and supporting effective clinical decision-making The Unmet…
News AI, Measurements Workshop to Explore the Intersection of Machine Learning and Physics The University of Chicago’s Office of Research and National Laboratories Joint Task Force Initiative earlier this year awarded a second round of AI + Science grants to three projects and...
Technology Deep Learning-Based Diagnostic System For Differentiating Thyroid Tumor Genetic And Histologic Profiles A deep learning system analyzes high-resolution pathology images to predict thyroid tumor subtypes and gene expression patterns, helping distinguish less aggressive cancers from those requiring more intensive treatment The Unmet…
