Conversations On Science

Mathilde Caron is a PhD. candidate at the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and at Facebook AI (Meta AI). She does the majority of her research in the field of Machine learning called self-supervised learning. She has a few first authorships on important academic papers in the space. Her work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eiB0s-kAAAAJ&hl=fr You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin address: 33wejXuGGDtQj9GPwCgjwPxPq4dc4muZjg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Robert Huang is a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Technology where he does theoretical research in the field of quantum computing. He is advised at CalTech by professors John Preskill and Thomas Vidick. His research touches on esoteric topics like quantum intelligence and quantum formalisms. All which we go into at great details. If you've ever wanted to understand the fundamentals of quantum computing, this episode is for you. According to his website, he works on the interplay between quantum physics and computer science (information theory, machine learning, complexity theory). His work: https://hsinyuan-huang.github.io/ You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin address: 33wejXuGGDtQj9GPwCgjwPxPq4dc4muZjg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Professor Maura Dykstra is a professor of history at the California Institute of Technology. She is an historian of late imperial Chinese history in which she obtained her PhD. from UCLA. She has held fellowships at East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Library of Taipei, Harvard University, and the University of Tokyo. Her current research focuses on the evolution of the Qing bureaucracy and the archival technologies that the Manchu state used to rule over its own officials and the locales for which they were responsible. Her works include: A Crisis of Competence: Information, Corruption, and Knowledge about the Decline of the Qing State https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.11/ Beyond the Shadow of the Law: Firm Insolvency, State-Building, and the New Policy Bankruptcy Reform in Late Qing Chongqing https://journal.hep.com.cn/fhc/EN/10.3868/s020-002-013-0028-8 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Dr. Norman is a postgraduate researcher in the lab of professors Richard Anderson and Mikhail Shapiro at the California Institute of Technology. He did his baccalaureate education in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Utah. He was also an NSF graduate research fellow studying human-robot interactions. His current work is in Brain-Human Interfaces (BMIs). Him and his team at Caltech recently published a seminal paper on a new technique poised to revolutionize the field of minimally invasive BMIs. They call it Functional Ultrasound, and it is a proof of concept in an effort to give the hope of mobility back to those suffering from paralysis. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Dr Mohamed Amgad is a medical doctor from Egypt and a current PhD candidate at Emory University’s computer science department. He’s also currently a visiting predoctoral fellow at Feinberg School of Medicine. He and I are labmates at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine at The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. For this episode, we go in depth on how computer science is being used to detect pathologies in tissue samples with the goal of making clinical predictions. This was a phenomenal master class on machine learning in medicine. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Dr Katie Hsiao is a Taiwanese neuroscience researcher at the prestigious Rockefeller University in New York. She’s a member of the Rajesethupathy Lab headed by Dr. Priya Rajesethupathy. She did her graduate work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she trained under Dr. Deanna Benson. We talked about the smallest unit of cognitive computation, synapses. Also how synapses are the starting point for memory and psychiatric pathologies. This was an illuminating conversation. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Michael Biddlestone is a postgraduate researcher and associate lecturer in the school of Psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury UK. His research is focused on the group-orientated Social Identity motives behind conspiracy theory belief. Idris Sunmola --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Rachel Sherman is a PhD candidate in computer science at The Johns Hopkins University. She does most of her research in the Salzberg Lab under professor Steven Salzberg where she analyzes human genomic data. Her groundbreaking work has been featured in prominent publications like The Atlantic. Publications: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/human-genome-300-million-missing-letters-dna/576481/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0273-y http://ccb.jhu.edu/people/rsherman/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Mary Niedrauer is a new PhD from Purdue University. She does her research in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Peptide Synthesis. She also obtain her MBA during her time at Purdue. A US Army vet and Jiu Jitsu practitioner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Beverly Mok is a graduate student at Harvard University. She currently studies chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University and is a member of the Liu Lab at the MIT and Harvard Broad Institute. Her research work is centered around mitochondrial DNA gene editing. Publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Professor Thomas McDade is a professor of Biological Anthropology. He’s also a faculty fellow at the institute for policy research, and director of the laboratory for human biology research. With a group of collaborators, he created a Covid-19 at home test kit that uses dried blood on filter paper from a finger prick. This kit is then shipped from the user's home to the lab to determine if the person has had exposure to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Dr Francelle is a french molecular neuroscientist that’s currently a postdoctoral candidate at Feinberg school of medicine. We went in depth on neurodegenerative diseases like Hunington’s and Parkinson’s disease and their pathologies. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Andrew Jo is a visual ophthalmology PhD research candidate at Feinberg School of Medicine. He does his research under Professor Yongling Zhu and Professor Steve DeVries at Feinberg. Enjoy the show! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

For this episode, I interview a very impressive researcher. Talking to Professor Ermin Wei, we touch on a variety of very technical topics like household robotics and algorithms used to make our electric grid more efficient. We spent most of the conversation talking about algorithms in general, her area of vast expertise. Hope you enjoy this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

For this episode, I interview the principal investigator of one of the labs I’m in called PerLab. Professor Pedram Khalili is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering. At PerLab, which stands for Physical Electronics Lab, we work on Spintronic devices that could one day be used to create highly efficient and robust computer storage devices. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

Anastacia Montgomery is a PhD student at Northwestern in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She’s also a member of the Climate Change Research group. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support