2026 SPECIAL GUESTS
We are thrilled to welcome a diverse group of mentors, judges, and speakers who bring a wealth of experience knowledge to the event. Industry leaders, researchers, founders, and experts are here to guide participants, share valuable insights, and evaluate groundbreaking ideas. Get ready to learn from the best and take your skills to the next level.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT CORNELL
HACKATHON TEAM
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Ami Stuart '10, MS '23
Director, Hackathons
Lecturer, Dyson
Alex De Leon '26
TA & Researcher
Dyson
Tushar MEng '14
Sr Software Engineer
Alayna Hernandez PhD
OB Researcher
ILR
Lauren Chin '29
Information Science
Engineering
Rose Pember '16 MS
Design & Strategy Faculty, Parsons New School of Design
Cristina Terrones '29
Statistics
A&S
Mohsen Annabestani PhD
AI+XR Biomedical Engineer
Weill Cornell Medicine
Ya'ara Arkin MSc
Sr AI Researcher
K Health
Natalie Dean Badillo MD '26
Biomedical Engineer, ML Researcher, Medical Student
Weill Cornell Medicine
Steven Bedrick
Bridge2AI
AI, Scientific Faculty
Brandon Bernard-Mendez
Technology Leadership and Development Program Analyst
Johnson & Johnson
Ayush Bhasin
IT Lead - Technical Product Owner
Johnson & Johnson
Kathleen Bubb MD
Asst Professor of Anatomy Teaching in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Loren Busby
Director, BioVenture eLab
Weill Cornell Medicine
Junaid Chaudry
Software Engineer
Johnson & Johnson
Carolyn Chu '12
Technical Product Manager - R&D Data Science, Innovative Medicine
Johnson & Johnson
Harish Dasari
Staff Software Engineering Manager
Flatiron Health
Jeff DiDomenico MBA
Sr Technical PM, XR
Johnson & Johnson
Amanda DiDomenico MA
Sr Manager, Experience Design (XD)
Johnson & Johnson
JoAnn Difede
Professor, Director of Virtual Reality Lab and Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress
Weill Cornell Medicine
Olivier Elemento, PhD
Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, of Computational Genomics, Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Assoc. Director of the CTSC
Weill Cornell Medicine
Philip Ellis
Founding Frontend Software Engineer
chrt
David Erickson
NIH POCTRN Center Director
PORTENT
Tom Fuller
Chief of Engineering
Next Jump
Gil Gerard Austria
Sr Analyst Technology Leader
Johnson & Johnson
Harald Haraldsson
Director, XR Collaboratory
Cornell Tech
Jeff Headd
VP
Johnson & Johnson, Innovation Medicine
Renso Hernandez
Software Engineer
Johnson & Johnson
Darke Hull
BME PhD Student
PORTENT
Ibrahim Hussain MD, FCNS
Asst Professor, Neurological Surgery
NY Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine
Roger Härtl MD
Professor, Neurological Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
Keren Imberg PhD, MBA
Director of Clinical Affairs
Legrand, North America
Victor Iris Del Prado
Lead Engineer
Johnson & Johnson
Stephen Jin
Director
Shanghai Gona-Semi
Charlie Kim
Founder, Co-CEO
Next Jump
Jan Krumsiek PhD
Assoc. Professor, Computational Biomedicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Stefanie Kubanek MS/RSA
Sr Lecturer, Cornell University
Design Principal for. MUCNYC and KubanekDesign +
Lara Kurt
Experience Designer
Johnson & Johnson
Maya Manchester
IT Lead, Clinical Advanced Therapies
Johnson & Johnson
Jason Manning
PhD Student
PORTENT
Jeff Mathers
Chief Architect
Johnson & Johnson
Ean Matthews LLB
Sr Technology Counsel
Johnson & Johnson
Turi McKinley MFA
Principal
Studio Uplift
Sairam Menon
Head of AI Platform Group Engineering, Cognitive Automation
Johnson & Johnson
Samantha Merlino
Data Science TLDP
Johnson & Johnson
Meghan Messenger
Co-CEO
Next Jump
Bobak Mosadegh PhD
Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Estomih Mtui
Professor of Clinical Anatomy Teaching in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Taiane De Souza Nascimento
Postdoc Infectious Diseases
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Taiane Nascimento de Souza PhD
Postdoc Researcher, Infectious Diseases
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Manuel Oliver Rueda MA
Trainer, Instructional Designer, Organizational Psychology Consultant, and Professional Magician.
Johannes Paetzold
Assistant Professor of AI in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine & Cornell Tech
Niti Parikh MIA
Director, Learning Spaces & MakerLABs
Cornell Tech
Beth Percha PhD, MPH
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Yuqing Qiu MS 18
Research Biostatistician
Weill Cornell Medicine/ NewYork-Presbyterian/ CTSC
Edwin Quay '21
Sr Manager
Johnson & Johnson
Sushravya Raghunath MS, PhD
Director of Data Science
NY Prebyterian Hospital
Shobha Rani PhD, MBA
Sr Manager R&D, Cognitive Automation & Analytics
Johnson & Johnson
Diana Rosado
Software Engineer (TLDP)
Johnson & Johnson
John Rubin
Co-Director Extended Reality Anesthesiology Immersion Lab, Assistant Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Vivek Sandela
Sr Principle Architect IM Supply Chain - Advanced Therapies
Johnson & Johnson
Chethan Sarabu MD
Director of Clinical Innovation, Health Tech Hub
Cornell Tech
Selene Sass
IT Manager Janssen R&D Advanced Computing
Johnson & Johnson
Andrea Sboner PhD
Director of Informatics and Computational Biology
WCM Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Tron Schell
Senior AI Engineer
Johnson & Johnson
John-William Sidhom
Clinical Fellow, Hematology & Medical Oncology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Alex Sigaras MS, MBA
Asst Professor- Research in Systems & Computational Biomedicine, Director of AI-XR Lab, Director of AI + XR at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Sandhya Sriram
AI-XR Engineer
Weill Cornell Medicine
Anya Tralshawala
Experienced Scientist, Innovation Medicine Commercial Data Science
Johnson & Johnson
Sneha Tuli MBA
Principal PM
Microsoft
Jon Villena-Vargas MD
Thoracic Surgeon
Weill Cornell Medicine
Kristie Wells '10
Patient Experience, Platform Director
Johnson & Johnson
Tim Willittes '18
M&A Tech Capabilities Lead, Corporate
Johnson & Johnson
Prasanth Yadla MS
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Seattle, WA
Rashona Yang
Information Technology Analyst
Johnson & Johnson
Aaron Yim
Senior Product Manager
Sema4.ai
Pantelis Zisimopoulos
Software Engineer
Weill Cornell Medicine
