June 5, 2025 by
Adam Elliott Segal - A&S News
Anand Agarawala and Mike Jurka can thank a chance encounter in the Department of Computer Science’s Dynamic Graphics Project Lab (DGP) for a lifelong friendship and business partnership.
Jurka, who is American, and Agarawala, originally from Calgary, instantly clicked. They’ve been working together since, most recently for Spatial, the VR-gaming company Agarawala founded eight years ago.
“Anand was the first person I met on my demo tour of the Dynamic Graphics Project lab. I was a year after him,” says Jurka, who earned his master’s in computer science in 2008. They became fast friends, soaking up the exciting, cutting-edge academic environment in the Department of Computer Science in the early 2000s.