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🤫 University Relations

The builders of what comes next are in school right now.

We fund research, share our work, and show up for students where we live first. Research universities, technology colleges, business schools and community colleges: the places raising the next generation of thinkers and builders.

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Why universities

Every good idea starts as somebody's research.

🤫 is a public-benefit project, funded today by one American citizen as research and development given to America. That kind of work has always started on campus, with people who chose to teach. We partner with universities to fund the field, not to take from it, and to help the smartest, hardest-working students in America and around the world build things that matter.

What we work on

The questions we would love help with.

Private AI infrastructure for people

Turning a person's attention, time and preferences into a private agent they own: one that manages their information and context across every agent that wants to know them, and only with their consent.

  • How does one self-owned profile serve every agent and brand, with access granted per field and revoked at will?
  • What does machine-verifiable consent between agents look like, with a receipt for every access?
  • How does a personal agent carry context across services without leaking it between them?

Computer security and privacy, systems, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and technology policy.

Permanent asset management and quantitative strategies

Long-horizon investing research: owning great, cash-generating businesses for decades, disciplined quantitative strategies, and results measured honestly.

  • Do simple, rules-based strategies hold up over ten and twenty years once costs, taxes and behaviour are counted?
  • Which benchmarks are honest for permanent capital, and when does a strategy deserve a new one?
  • How should an agent explain a financial decision so the person it serves can check it and say no?

Computational finance, applied mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance.

Personal supercomputing

The compute a private agent runs on, owned by the person or the business it serves, from a phone to a machine in the garage.

  • How far can models run on hardware a person owns, and at what cost per watt?
  • How should a fleet of owner-operated machines share work safely and fairly?

Computer architecture, distributed systems, and energy-efficient machine learning.

Asset management here means research. Nothing on this page is an investment product, an offer, or investment advice.

Where we work today

The universities we work with.

  • IIT Bombay🇮🇳 Mumbai, India

    Agent systems, on-device models, and trustworthy design.

  • IIT Kharagpur🇮🇳 Kharagpur, India

    Agentic personal knowledge and the infrastructure behind personal and business agents.

  • IIT Madras🇮🇳 Chennai, India

    Agent systems, on-device models, and trustworthy design.

  • Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi

    Privacy-preserving machine learning and multilingual language technology.

  • Purdue University🇺🇸 West Lafayette, IN

    Super intelligence infrastructure: personal supercomputing for everyone.

  • Stanford University🇺🇸 Stanford, CA

    Human-centered AI, privacy and data policy, and applied cryptography.

  • Stony Brook University🇺🇸 Stony Brook, NY

    Personal information management, quantitative finance, and personal supercomputing infrastructure.

  • University of California, Berkeley🇺🇸 Berkeley, CA

    Privacy law and policy, secure systems, and confidential computing.

  • University of Washington🇺🇸 Seattle, WA

    Consent-first personal agents, security and privacy, and quantitative finance.

    How to work with us at Washington
Our research labs and the people behind them
For students

Come build with us.

The students we would love to meet, and what they would work on. We never publish a student's name.

PhD

Security, privacy and consent

You study how systems earn trust: consent protocols, tracking, secure agents. You would work on the private AI infrastructure questions above.

PhD or Master's

Systems and machine learning

You build models and the systems they run on. You would work on on-device agents and personal supercomputing.

PhD or Master's

Computational finance and applied mathematics

You care about evidence more than elegance. You would work on permanent asset management and quantitative strategies research, published whatever it shows.

Master's or MBA

Business, policy and design

You want to know how a company earns trust instead of buying attention. You would work on going to market, policy, and the product people touch.

What you get

Paid work at the Garage

Internships and the Garage Residency in Kirkland, paid properly, on work that ships.

Research with our labs

Our university research labs take on students for real research. Ask us, and we will make the introduction.

A project with your name on it

Capstones and student projects on real problems, with mentors who have shipped at scale, and credit that is yours.

Your own agent, free

🤫 Agent One is free to every American, students included. Your data stays yours.

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Who we build with

Four kinds of school. One set of promises.

For the thinkers

Research universities

Funded labs and sponsored research on the hard problems: consent a machine can verify, agents that run on hardware a person owns, and personal supercomputing for everyone.

For the builders

Technology and technical colleges

Real systems, not toy problems. Capstones on the work we actually ship, the Garage Residency in Kirkland, and the hands-on craft that turns an idea into a working machine.

For the business men and women

Business schools

A new kind of company to take apart: going to market, local commerce, and ventures built in the open. Case studies and projects on how a business earns trust instead of buying attention.

For everyone who wants in

Community colleges

Short, practical paths into agentic AI, taught by trainers who came up the same way. The front door we care about most, through the 🤫 Academy we are building.

What we do together

The research, and the neighbourhood.

Research and development

The deep work, funded properly and published openly.

  • Funded research labs, on multi-year terms
  • Sponsored projects on questions we define together
  • Named fellowships for PhD students
  • Findings published freely, including the ones that prove us wrong

Community

Showing up, in person, in the places we live.

  • Guest lectures, office hours, and builder nights at the Garage
  • Hackathons with real problems and real mentors
  • Projects in service of the neighbourhood: charities, food banks, and the offices that help people pay their bills
  • Train-the-trainer paths through the 🤫 Academy
What we promise

Promises we make in public.

  1. 01

    Faculty publish freely

    We never ask a researcher to delay, soften, or bury a finding. If our work fails a test, we want to know, and so should everyone else.

  2. 02

    IP stays clean

    What each side brings, each side keeps. Anything new is worked out in good faith, through the university's own technology transfer office.

  3. 03

    Students come first

    Every engagement has to be worth it for a student: mentorship, real data, published work, or a path to a job. Paid work is paid properly.

  4. 04

    No data broker behaviour, ever

    Anything that touches a joint project is consent-first, with a receipt for every access. That is the whole point of the company.

  5. 05

    Given, not sold

    🤫 Agent One is free to every American, students included. We never sell anyone's data, their attention, or their contacts.

How to start

Start small. Earn the rest.

Ways to work together, in order of commitment. Start anywhere. Most great partnerships start with the first.

  1. 1

    A conversation

    Coffee at the Garage, a lab visit, a guest lecture, a paper read together. No paperwork.

  2. 2

    A student project

    One team, one real problem, one term. We bring the data, the mentorship, and a letter of recommendation.

  3. 3

    Sponsored research

    A faculty-led project on a question we define together, usually 12 to 18 months, with one or two PhD students.

  4. 4

    A named fellowship

    Funding for one PhD student a year, in an area we both care about.

  5. 5

    A multi-year agreement

    Several faculty, clear IP terms, and an annual review. This is how our university research labs work today.

  6. 6

    An advisory seat

    One or two faculty with a standing voice in where our research and product go next.

We fund the engineering and the students' time. We never ask for free labour.

Starting at home

We start where we live.

Proximity compounds. A student can walk in on a Thursday afternoon, and a professor can visit for the price of a coffee. So we begin in our own neighbourhoods, then go everywhere.

Schools near us we would love to get to know.

🇺🇸 Kirkland and Seattle

Washington

Home of the Kirkland Garage at 1021 5th St W, where the company started. The University of Washington is fifteen minutes away.

  • Lake Washington Institute of TechnologyTechnology college

    A public technical college here in Kirkland, with professional-technical programs and applied bachelor's degrees.

  • DigiPen Institute of TechnologyTechnology college

    A Redmond institute devoted to computer science, game development, and digital art.

  • Bellevue CollegeCommunity college

    A public college on the Eastside offering associate and bachelor's degrees.

  • Cascadia CollegeCommunity college

    A community college in Bothell that shares its campus with the University of Washington Bothell.

  • Seattle UniversityBusiness school

    A Jesuit university in Seattle, home to the Albers School of Business and Economics.

  • Northeastern University, SeattleResearch university

    Northeastern's Seattle campus, with graduate programs in computing and technology.

🇺🇸 Tampa Bay

Florida

Florida has been home to our principal office since April 2026.

  • University of South FloridaResearch university

    A public research university in Tampa, with a campus in St. Petersburg.

  • The University of TampaBusiness school

    A private university in Tampa, home to the Sykes College of Business.

  • St. Petersburg CollegeCommunity college

    A public college in Pinellas County offering associate and bachelor's degrees.

🇺🇸 Stony Brook and Long Island

New York

Home of our research lab at Stony Brook University.

  • Farmingdale State CollegeTechnology college

    A SUNY college of applied science and technology on Long Island.

  • Suffolk County Community CollegeCommunity college

    A SUNY community college serving Suffolk County.

🇮🇳 Pune

Maharashtra, India

Where part of our engineering team works, a few hours from our lab at IIT Bombay.

  • COEP Technological UniversityTechnology college

    One of India's oldest engineering institutions, now a technological university.

  • Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyTechnology college

    An engineering college focused on computer and information technology.

  • Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityResearch university

    Pune's public state university.

  • IISER PuneResearch university

    An Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, devoted to research and teaching in the sciences.

  • Symbiosis International UniversityBusiness school

    A Pune university whose schools include the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.

  • FLAME UniversityBusiness school

    A Pune university known for liberal education, with a school of business.

🇦🇪 The UAE

Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah

Home of our UAE Garage in Dubai.

  • Khalifa UniversityResearch university

    A leading science-and-technology university in the region - engineering, AI, robotics, and advanced research - and the first UAE institution to enter the global top 150.

  • NYU Abu DhabiResearch university

    A global liberal-arts-and-sciences campus with strong computer science and computer engineering, and a master's in interdisciplinary data science and AI.

  • United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)Research university

    The UAE's oldest and flagship national university, with broad engineering, computing, and science research across the country's priorities.

  • American University of Sharjah (AUS)Technology college

    A well-regarded university with strong engineering and computer science programs and an international student body.

  • University of SharjahResearch university

    A large public research university with growing computing, engineering, and applied-AI research.

Described with public information and genuine admiration. Naming a school implies no partnership, affiliation, or endorsement, and each links to its own site as the source of truth. If you would like your school described differently, or not listed at all, write to partners@hushh.ai and we will change it.

With gratitude

To the people who teach.

Everything we build stands on something somebody taught first. Our faculty directory celebrates the professors of the world's great universities, each with a cited source, and each removable on request.

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