AI in Action at Harvard
About the Event
Join us for AI in Action at Harvard, a day exploring how artificial intelligence is moving from ideas into real-world applications. Hear from founders and builders about creating AI products, tackling complex challenges, and using AI to empower the next generation.
Our featured talks span AI for energy infrastructure and decision-making, lessons from bringing products to market, and opportunities for the next generation of builders. Whether you are a founder, student, developer, or simply curious about AI, join us to explore what it takes to put AI into action.
More speaker biographies and session details will be announced soon.
Featured Speakers
Topic: Using AI to Empower the Next Generation
Jason Dou — Founder & CEO, Marbella AI
AI Meets the Power Grid: Building Decision Intelligence for the Energy Infrastructure Era
AI is rapidly increasing both the demand for electricity and the need for better infrastructure decision-making. In this talk, Xander Wu will share his experience building GridVision AI and explore how AI can help developers navigate grid constraints, interconnection complexity, and time-to-power challenges. He will also discuss lessons from turning an AI product from an idea into a production-ready platform and bringing it to real-world customers.
Xander Wu — Founder & CEO, GridVision AI
Xander Wu is the Founder and CEO of GridVision AI, a Harvard-based AI startup building decision intelligence for power infrastructure. GridVision AI helps data center, energy, and infrastructure developers evaluate grid constraints, interconnection opportunities, and time-to-power risks, turning complex grid data into decision-ready intelligence. Xander’s work focuses on applying AI to real-world energy infrastructure and accelerating the development of power-intensive projects.
Will Wang (William Wei Wang) — CEO, RoboStreet
Will Wang leads RoboStreet, bringing together technical expertise and business leadership. He serves as a board member and local chair of the IEEE International Conference on Universal Village and has contributed to international and national standards work, including ISO environmental labeling. An inventor with multiple patents, he has co-authored publications on autonomous driving and sustainable electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.
Dr. Anna Yushuang Xu — Founder & CEO, 111sign.com
Anna Xu is the founder and CEO of 111sign.com, a company applying AI to design, and serves as a Marbella advisor and mentor. Her background combines business and medicine: she earned an MBA at Harvard Business School, studied at Peking University Health Science Center, and received her medical degree from the University of Vienna.
Hong Yu — Marbella Board Member
Hong Yu brings experience across strategic analytics, wealth management, and investment research. He is president of Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology and previously spent nearly two decades at Bank of America, most recently as a senior vice president overseeing strategic analytics. His work connects emerging companies with investors across borders, spanning healthcare, financial services, robotics, and AI. He holds degrees from Peking University and the University of Illinois Chicago and is a CFA charterholder.
Session details: Coming soon.
Justin Xu — Student at Penn State University
Agentic AI and Fair Balance
How AI drug recommendations challenge
the FDA’s approach to risk and benefit
Kelly Zhou — Founder & CEO, Career Mister
Kelly Zhou is the Founder and CEO of Career Mister, a U.S.-based career development and global talent platform connecting education, professional development, and real-world industry opportunities. Career Mister works with students, young professionals, universities, and employers to bridge the gap between academic learning and the workplace.
Career Mister focuses on career planning, professional development, internship and training opportunities, and university-industry collaboration. Kelly’s work centers on creating practical pathways that help emerging and international talent gain real-world experience, build professional networks, and prepare for an increasingly global and AI-driven workforce.
AI Meets Career Development: Building the Next Generation of Global Talent
AI is rapidly reshaping how people learn, work, and build their careers. As traditional roles evolve and new opportunities emerge, the connection between education and real-world industry experience is becoming increasingly important.
In this talk, Kelly Zhou will share her experience building Career Mister and explore how AI is transforming career development, talent preparation, and the transition from education to employment. She will discuss how universities, employers, and career platforms can work together to provide students and young professionals with practical experience, professional networks, and career pathways that respond to the changing needs of industry.
She will also share lessons from building cross-sector and international partnerships and discuss how the next generation can prepare not only for their first job, but for long-term, adaptable careers in an AI-driven global economy.
Building Real-World Capabilities for AI Agents
Luke Guo — Co-founding Engineer, Aident AI
Luke Guo is a co-founding engineer at Aident AI, an early-stage startup bringing real-world capabilities and tools to AI agents. Its product, Aident Loadout, reached more than 17,000 users within three months of launch and ranked No. 1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
Luke is also a junior studying Computer Science at Columbia University. His work and research focus on AI agents, agentic tooling, and context engineering.
Build a Working AI Agent for Your Business
Mark Ma (Kuanze Ma) — Co-founder, HarnessRouter
Mark Ma (Kuanze Ma) is a workshop instructor and co-founder of HarnessRouter, a Y Combinator-backed AI agent infrastructure company. He will share practical techniques for turning business requirements, documents, and data into working AI agents and reusable workflows.
Build a Working AI Agent for Your Business
Richard Song — Co-founder, HarnessRouter
Richard Song is a workshop instructor and co-founder of HarnessRouter, a Y Combinator-backed AI agent infrastructure company. He will show how multi-agent engineering and industry-grade tooling can support practical business workflows.
Introducing ClientCampus: Use AI to 10× Customer Success for Insurance Agents
Leo Lin — Senior, Minnesota High School
Leo Lin is a senior at Minnesota High School and is introducing ClientCampus, an AI-powered product designed to help insurance agents achieve 10× customer success.
More Speakers
Qiqi Zhang — Coming soon.
Caelan Stewart — Coming soon.
Dr. Wenxiu Wu — Coming soon.
Organizer
Marbella AI
Co-organizer
GridVision AI
Decision intelligence for power infrastructure.