Traceable optimism
We celebrate progress only when artifacts—configs, cards, graphs—carry fingerprints auditors recognize.
People & ink
Collective
We keep roles explicit: faculty leads own curriculum truth, lab instructors own exercises, operations coordinators own calendars, industry advisors own what still works on Mondays.
Faculty Lead
Dr. Lena Vogel
Streaming features, watermark math
Lab Instructor
Kenji Patel
Edge packaging, TensorRT recipes
Industry Advisor
Noah Anders
Inference graphs, canary releases
Operations Coordinator
Rika Sato
Cohort logistics, studio access
Faculty Lead
Amelia Costa
Privacy budgets, cross-border retention
Lab Instructor
Leo Zhang
GPU scheduling, chargeback templates
Industry Advisor
Hina Morikawa
Notebook hardening, reviewer loops
Lab Instructor
Marco Ibarra
Vector retrieval, sparse rerankers
Operations Coordinator
Priya Nandakumar
Partner lab visits, visa paperwork
Faculty Lead
Dr. Yusuf Adeyemi
Experiment design, finance-facing metrics
Industry Advisor
Sofia Lind
Model cards, policy translation
Faculty Lead
Dr. Mei Lin
Streaming joins, watermark edge cases
Principles
Comfortable friction
Productive disagreement is part of the syllabus. Silence in reviews worries us more than sharp questions.
Modest metrics
We publish ranges, envelopes, and tradeoffs. Hero charts without caveats do not survive critique night.
Annotator ergonomics
Human signal matters. Interfaces that ignore wrists and eyes get redesigned, not praised.
Milestones
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2019-04
First closed cohort
Twelve engineers met in a borrowed Minato conference room with one shared GPU.
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2022-11
Remote-first parity
Lab kits shipped; office hours rotated time zones without diluting critique standards.
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2025-09
Partner ink shelf
Three industrial partners co-signed review templates now reused across cohorts.