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The Neural NetworkData Privacy and Security in the Age of AI with Dr. Umar IqbalHello Neural Network listeners! Today, we discuss the complexities of Data Privacy and Security with Dr. Umar Iqbal from Washington University in St. Louis, especially with a focus on AI advancements. You won't want to miss our discussion on technology policy in the past and future!2024-11-1018 minThe Neural NetworkLLMs and Alleviating Loneliness with Dr. Stefano PuntoniHello NN Listeners! In this week’s episode, we were joined by Dr. Stefano Puntoni, a professor at The Wharton school with research around marketing, artificial intelligence, and decision-driven analytics. We had an insightful conversation spanning education systems across different continents to the community at UPenn to his work with large language models. We hope you enjoy!2024-10-2720 minThe Neural NetworkThe Last Mile Problem with Dr. Vahideh ManshadiIn the second part of our interview with Dr. Manshadi, we discuss the implications of the decision-making and algorithmic processes behind these initiatives that benefit non-profits. Furthermore, we discuss our thoughts on the last mile problem. We hope you enjoy and tune in next week for another episode!2024-10-1914 minThe Neural NetworkAI in the Social Sector with Dr. Vahideh ManshadiHello NN Listeners! In this week's episode, we have a conversation with Dr. Vahideh Manshadi, a professor and the Research Director for Operations Research at the Center for Algorithms, Data, & Market Design. She provides insight into the growing use of algorithms and AI in modeling, especially in the field of operations research, along with applications in matching platforms. Listen to hear about her work in the sector of societal good. Hope you enjoy!
2024-10-1218 minThe Neural NetworkAI-Powered Consulting and Chess with Dr. Santiago SegarraHello NN Listeners! Here's the second part of our interview with Dr. Santiago Segarra, a W. M. Rice Trustee Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He provides insight on his startup in progress, Acumen, which helps streamline consulting tasks with AI. Stick around till the end to hear Dr. Segarra's answer to some more fun questions, including his favorite hobbies and what other field he'd like to be an expert in. Hope you enjoy!2024-09-2716 minThe Neural NetworkSignal Processing and Shakespeare with Dr. Santiago SegarraHello NN Listeners! In this week's episode, we have a conversation with Dr. Santiago Segarra, a W. M. Rice Trustee Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. We discuss his research interests, primarily graph signal processing, and interdisciplinary applications. Stick around till the end to hear about his work on Shakespearean play attributions. You can catch the second part of the interview next week. Hope you enjoy!2024-09-2421 minThe Neural NetworkAI and the Brain with Dr. Michael FrankHello NN Listeners! In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Dr. Michael Frank, a cognitive, linguistic, and psychological professor at Brown University. We keep up our discussion about the evolutionary role of AI in cognitive neuroscience with applications tied to the development of signal processing and language models. Dr. Frank also shares his favorite scientist and things to do in Rhode Island towards the end of the episode. Hope you enjoy!2024-09-1316 minThe Neural NetworkCognitive Neuroscience and AI/ML's Role with Dr. Michael FrankHello NN Listeners! In this week's episode, we were joined by Dr. Michael Frank, a professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological science at Brown University. We got to discuss his research and projects, from hierarchies of cognitive control to reinforcement learning. It was nice to hear his insights from a wide range of experiences and disciplines. Stay tuned for next week's episode for the second part of the interview!2024-09-0621 minThe Neural NetworkImage Processing and Robotics with Dr. Jason CorsoHello NN Listeners! In this week's episode, we were joined by Dr. Jason Corso, a professor of robotics and EECS at the University of Michigan. We discuss his computer vision startup, Voxel51, going through the challenges and nature of its founding. Tune in till the end to hear about his robotics research and the UMich community. We hope you enjoy!2024-08-3020 minThe Neural NetworkThe Interdisciplinary Nature of AI in Healthcare with Shawn CoeHello NN Listeners! In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with CTO Shawn Coe from Care.Trials. We talk about Cairo, a specialized language model used by the company, the interdisciplinary aspects of AI in healthcare, and how Shawn maintains a work-life balance. We hope you enjoy!2024-08-2418 minThe Neural NetworkHow AI is Augmenting Clinical Trials with CTO Shawn CoeHello NN Listeners! In today’s episode, we talk to Shawn Coe, the Chief Technology Officer of Care.Trials, a company dedicated to addressing a niche need in the healthcare industry. Listen to this week’s episode to learn more about the various careers that led him to AI, the conversations behind his choice of profession, and AI’s role in understanding and expediting clinical trials. We hope you enjoy!2024-08-1621 minThe Neural NetworkAI's Role in Socioeconomic Shifts with Jordan WilsonHello NN Listeners! Here's the second part of our interview with Jordan Wilson, the host of the most popular AI Podcast, Everyday AI. Hope you enjoy!2024-08-0923 minThe Neural NetworkJordan Wilson on the Proliferation of AI in Business and Internet UseHello NN Listeners! Bit of a different upload schedule this week since we're collaborating with Everyday AI, a top AI-centric podcast about everything related to AI, from LLMs to productivity tips. In this episode, we were joined by Jordan Wilson, the host of Everyday AI, who talked about his podcast, 2024 AI projections, and the integration of AI in business and day. We had a great time and will be joining Jordan next on the Everyday AI podcast tomorrow, 8/1, at 8:30 AM EST. 2024-07-3120 minThe Neural NetworkStereotyping and Noise in AI with Dr. Kai-Wei ChangHello NN Listeners! Here is the second part of our interview with Dr. Kai-Wei Chang, a professor at UCLA and the lead of UCLA's NLP Group. This episode features more of his work with multimodal AI, including a detailed description of the development of GLIP. We hope you enjoy! Stay tuned for next week's episode with Jordan Wilson from the Everyday AI Podcast.2024-07-2622 minThe Neural NetworkLanguage Model Bias with Dr. Kai-Wei ChangHello NN Listeners! This episode was special as we were joined by a professor from UCLA who has made some amazing contributions to the field of NLP: Dr. Kai-Wei Chang. Dr. Chang has made some technology we've used, including GLIP and VisualBERT, and we got to discuss them with him. His work on debiasing language and vision-language models was another prominent topic. Stay tuned for the second part of the interview next week! Hope you enjoy.2024-07-1923 minThe Neural NetworkHuman Robot Interaction Lab with Dr. Vasanth SarathyHello NN Listeners! Here's the second part of our interview with Dr. Vasanth Sarathy, research assistant professor at Tufts University. We cover more exciting topics, from his work in the Tufts Human-Robot Interaction Lab to using video games to study human creativity and cognition. Stick till the end to learn what Dr. Sarathy's favorite comic is. We hope you enjoy! Stay tuned for next week's interview with Dr. Chang from UCLA. 2024-07-1321 minThe Neural NetworkRobotics and Video Games with Dr. Vasanth SarathyHello NN listeners! In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Vasanth Sarathy, a research assistant professor at Tufts University. We discuss a wide range of topics, from his background in law to the connection of the humanities to machines. He offers insights on various research interests and projects, spanning cognitive science, social ML, and robotics. We hope you learn something and enjoy! Tune in next week for Part 2. 2024-07-0624 minThe Neural NetworkYouth AI Programs with CMU's Dr. RoséHello NN Listeners! This is the second part of our interview with Professor Carolyn Rosé from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. Vasu, again, couldn't make it, but Sidharth Subbiah joined us as a guest co-host. We continue where we left off with many topics, from youth AI programs to Israeli folk dancing. We hope you enjoy! Tune in next week for our episode with Professor Vasanth Sarathy of Tufts University. 2024-06-2918 minThe Neural NetworkEducational LLMs with CMU's Dr. RoséHello NN listeners! Vasu couldn't make this episode, but we were joined by guest host Sidharth Subbiah and Carolyn Rosé, a professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, with research around language technologies and human-computer interaction. Professor Rosé offers her insights on a plethora of topics, from language models in education to her style of teaching. This was a fun episode, and we hope you like it! Tune in next week for the second part of the interview.2024-06-2224 minThe Neural NetworkDefinition of Fair with Dr. Zick2024-06-1616 minThe Neural NetworkMarkets without Money with Dr. ZickHello Neural Network Listeners! In this week’s episode, we interview Yair Zick, a professor at UMass CICS, with research applying ML algorithms to the fields of game theory and economics. Our conversation explores various exciting concepts, from fair division to what constitutes fairness. Dr. Zick shares thought-provoking responses with excellent analogies and breakdowns of consequential topics. We hope you enjoy Part 1 of our Interview with Dr. Zick, and we hope you tune into Part 2 of our interview as well next week!2024-06-0725 minThe Neural NetworkThe Void of the Familiar, Yet Strange: The Uncanny (Special)Hello Neural Network Listeners! In today's special episode, Armaan and I drift away from Artificial Intelligence and discuss a phenomena unlike no other: the Uncanny. Professionals around the world have struggled to create a concrete definition for the term, so we were delighted to hear the perspectives of our friends to gain larger insight on the topic. Tune in next week for another interview with a remarkable professor! -Vasu and Armaan2024-05-3105 minThe Neural NetworkAdvice for People Interested in ML with Dr. WuIn this episode, Armaan and I continue our interview with Dr. Wu on his research. We discuss the intersections of AI with other fields, such as biology, and interdisciplinary collaboration. As a result, we talk about some of his work where he's applied AI/ML to create innovative solutions to tasks in other fields. We hope you enjoy! Tune in next week for an episode on the uncanny. 2024-05-2617 minThe Neural NetworkTheoretical AI and Kernels with Dr. WuIn this episode, Armaan and I begin to look at something fascinating: the theoretical side of Artificial Intelligence. Learning about a completely different side to AI/ML methods for optimizing the efficiency in these models, we learned the significant impact that theoretical AI might have for future development of an array of models. We hope you enjoy, and look forward to some of our next episodes in the near future (we’re hoping to upload more consistently now that there’s no AP exams and summer break’s on the way!).2024-05-1820 minThe Neural NetworkDangerous Future of NLP and Deepfakes with Dr. LiuThis episode is the second part of our interview with Dr. Liu, a professor at WPI specializing in AI/ML, especially in the fields of NLP, text/graph mining, and computational social science. In this part of the interview, we discuss a slew of ML developments and advice for those interested in pursuing similar research. We hope you enjoy, and make sure to tune in next week!2024-04-2220 minThe Neural NetworkSocial Risks of AI with Dr. LiuIn this episode, we talk to Dr. Xiaozhong Liu, a professor at WPI. His research interests include natural language processing, text/graph mining, and computational social sciences. In this part of the interview, we discuss large language models and their roles and implications in his research and on a broader societal spectrum. We hope you enjoy it, and tune in next week for the second part of the interview!2024-04-1122 minThe Neural NetworkAI Summer Programs for High SchoolersHello, Neural Network Listeners! In today's episode, Vasu discusses with Rishith Prathi, a senior at Shrewsbury High School, the impact of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Science as a whole. Looking at the various impacts that Computer Science Programs had on Rishith, we discussed challenges, both technical and non-technical, to conceptualize the state of AI and CS. Unfortunately, Armaan was not able to join us for this episode; however, he's looking forward to joining us on our next BIG episode. We also want to apologize for the slightly inconsistent upload date from our previous episode; we're hoping to...2024-03-3023 minThe Neural NetworkASSISTments + AI in Education with Dr. HeffernanThis episode is the second part of our interview with Dr. Heffernan, a professor at WPI specializing in AI/ML, especially in the fields of education and personalized learning. We highly recommend that you check out our previous episode for a more enjoyable experience in case you haven't. In this part of the interview, we discuss more about ASSISTments as well as other general opinions on the future of AI in education. We hope you enjoy, and make sure to tune in next week!2024-03-1422 minThe Neural NetworkStudents in AI vs Regular Classrooms with Dr. HeffernanIn this episode, Armaan and I interview Dr. Neil Heffernan, a professor at WPI specializing in AI/ML, specifically in the fields of education and personalized learning. We go into depth about recent developments in AI research, especially LLMs, and also talk about Dr. Heffernan’s biggest project: ASSISTments. The audio quality isn’t the same as usual as the interview was over Zoom, but we hope you enjoy. Make sure to tune in next week for the second part of the interview!2024-03-0522 minThe Neural NetworkAI Classification Models for Biomarkers with Nihitha ReddyThroughout this episode, Armaan and I discuss with Nihitha Reddy, a senior at Mass Academy, about her extraordinary ML project. Beyond simply just learning about the ML skills that were needed to accomplish the project, she provided excellent insight on important things to consider to make completing a research project enjoyable. Nihitha also discusses a fantastic opportunity that prepared her for this experience: Beaver Works Summer Institute. Aside from the episode, we look forward to consistently uploading in the future, specifically we’re aiming for weekly uploads now that we’ve got more time! Keep on coming back, since we g...2024-02-2420 minThe Neural NetworkPatenting an AI Project with Joseph YuIn this episode, Armaan and I talk to Joseph Yu (Mass Academy Senior) about his independent research project: a disease detection AI model based on immune footprints. His project is not only novel but has also obtained a provisional patent, the process of which we all discuss in this episode. Hope you enjoy this episode!2024-02-0630 minThe Neural NetworkWPI Hackathon Winner's Product with Charles TangIn this episode, Armaan and I discuss hackathons and other tech things with Charles Tang, a fellow Mass Academy student and rising Brown University freshman. We talk about GOATHACKS, a hackathon at WPI that he recently won, and MAMS SISO, a really cool independent project that assists students with signing in and out. Hope you enjoy this episode and tune into our next one with Joseph Yu!2024-01-3022 minThe Neural NetworkWhat is NeurIPS? with Vasu and ArmaanIn this episode, Armaan and I delve deeper into the world of AI by analyzing some of the innovative research presented at the NeurIPS 2023 conference. Through thorough analysis of the gaps and advantages of this research, we reflect upon the novelty and astuteness within these papers. Hope you enjoy!2024-01-2228 minThe Neural NetworkChallenges with Citing AI with Jacob JiangHello Everyone! In this episode, Armaan and I were joined by our fellow Mass Academy Student, Jacob Jiang, to discuss the impact AI has on Education. We discuss the evolution of AI and its influence on School Systems, Creative Thinking, and Personalized Learning. 2023-12-2131 min
The Neural NetworkThe Neural Network IntroductionHello Everyone, welcome to our podcast, the Neural Network! Our names are Vasu Lakshmanan and Armaan Priyadarshan, and we are discussing our aspirations for this podcast. Stick around for our next episode on Artificial Intelligence's impact on education. 2023-12-0201 min