Cornell Tech alum returns to Studio

Cornell Tech was thrilled to welcome a familiar face to Studio today: Cornell Tech alum Aditya Mukerjee, who is the co-founder of the health care start-up BoardRounds, which aims to improve follow-up care for emergency room patients.

Mukerjee stopped by to work with the students on their company projects (and commiserate with them on the challenges they’re facing). Speaking from experience, Mukerjee talked about the importance of iteration, especially for the engineering students who, as builders, naturally want to start coding to explore project possibilities. Mukerjee warned the students about getting too attached to their code as they develop and change their projects. Learning through building is an important process – even if you end up throwing out early code or prototypes.

One group that has made major progress on a prototype while just in week three is a team of two MBA and two MEng students that are working with Segovia, which combines the latest technology with extensive field experience running large social programs to reach the world’s poor.

The team is developing biometric solutions to help direct cash to the world’s poor in two different scenarios: NGO and government programs, and natural disasters.