What happens when generative AI meets medical imaging? Aimee sits down with Dr. Pierong Liu, assistant professor in Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Data Science and AI Institute, to discuss how AI systems can work across imaging modalities, improve lower-quality scans, and support more personalized care through virtual patients and digital twins. Their conversation explores the promise of AI as a clinical assistant, the policy and privacy challenges ahead, and how cross-disciplinary collaboration at JHU is helping shape the future of healthcare.

Spiders are more than superheroes: they are capable of a so-called “internal state” that directs our everyday behaviors and motivations. Dr. Andrew Gordus is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins’ biology department, exploring the genetic and molecular mechanisms of behavior. Join us as Joseph Brodsky delves deeper into the behavioral nuances across the animal kingdom and how our eight-legged friends can help us gain a greater understanding of our own minds.

Can we transform stroke recovery? Omkar Katkade sits down with Dr. Argye Hillis, a professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, to discuss the science of stroke, the brain’s remarkable capacity for recovery, and the emerging tools that could transform treatment in the years ahead. From acute interventions like mechanical thrombectomy to the next frontier of electroceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and the potential role of stem cells in restoring language function, the conversation explores how innovation may change what recovery looks like for patients around the world.

How does aphasia affect the ways we understand and produce language, and when is the optimal time to learn a new one? Joseph Brodsky explores this question and more with Dr. Manuel Marte, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins. Listen in to explore the inner workings of speech through the care and recovery of stroke patients.

In this episode, host Gordon Lee sits down with Dr. Mark Zhang, a partner at Cloudstone Venture Fund and a Silicon Valley veteran. With experience spanning biophysical chemistry, software engineering at HP during the 1990s internet boom, and venture capital, Dr. Zhang explores next-generation diagnostics, smarter healthcare technologies, and other innovations in biotechnology and medical devices that may redefine medicine in the years ahead.

The future of robotics takes an innovative turn at the hands of Pheratech Systems, a company dedicated to socially autonomous systems. Gordon Lee talks to CEO Michael Huynh about how nature inspired him to take a unique approach to adaptive technology. How are ants key to decentralized processing? How else can we apply drone technology in our everyday lives? Listen to find out!

Can we solve the plastic crisis by rethinking its very foundation? In this episode, Mathew Chaves sits down with award-winning Johns Hopkins lecturer Dr. Olivier Nsengiyumva. From his early life in Rwanda to his groundbreaking work on low-cost, biorenewable polyesters, Dr. Nsengiyumva shares the personal and professional journey that fuels his passion for green chemistry.

Cindy Yuan is a PhD student at Harvard studying neuroscience, investigating cognitive and computational processes in decision making, spatial representation, and navigation. Listen in to learn about Cindy’s work with virtual reality, the current state of neuroscience research, and some insights into life as a graduate researcher.

We continue our AI discussion with our guest speaker Joseph Brodsky. As algorithms continue to advance rapidly, how will we eventually integrate them into our everyday lives? Will their ascension to a higher mode of thinking introduce new challenges or new opportunities? Aimee Liang joins Gordon Lee and Omkar Katkade to cap off this exciting roundtable conversation.

In this episode, we are breaking down what “conscious AI” really means and its implications for our lifestyles, occupations, and the future of humanity. Gordon Lee and Omkar Katkade lead this episode, featuring a special guest, Joseph Brodsky.