Welcome back to Humans of Medicine - A podcast where we interview and learn about different types of people in medicine and research.
This conversation is with Max, an Adelaide-born ANU graduate, cricket fanatic and passionate researcher who’s also headed to Oxford later this year as a Rhodes Scholar. I currently work with Max in a research lab at USyd - as well as being a great human and research buddy, he’s also extremely passionate and goes deep into areas he cares about - which is why I’m particularly keen to share this conversation.
We talked about his journey, and how different mentors have guided him, what he’ll be working on in his computational neuroscience PhD, and his perspective on all the exciting developments around “AI”. Hope you enjoy!
If you have any questions for Max, send him a message on Linkedin.
Timestamps:
0:44 Why medicine and research?
3:50 Paradigm-shifts: From bench to bedside, explore vs exploit
7:58 The value of hard work and being kind
10:26 Max’s PhD: Information representation in the brain
15:35 Research experiences and great supervisors
17:58 Challenges in Immunology and Psychiatric Disorders
23:20 Generative AI and its potential understanding the brain
26:39 Overhyped and Underhyped AI applications
29:18 Attention spans and content mediums in the age of AI
36:07 Advice for undergraduates
