Legends of Data & AI

Usama Fayyad speaks with Tom Davenport - Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, Faculty Director at C. Dean Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Research Fellow at MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Tune in to hear Tom discuss the role of analytics in AI, his concern for the future of entry-level workers , as well as his views on the importance of well curated data.

Usama Fayyad speaks with Larry Brilliant - American Physician, Epidemiologist, Technologist, Author. Tune in to hear Larry discuss his history in epidemiology, his time spent on the WHO Smallpox Eradication Program for SE Asia, as well as his views on the applications and limitations of data and AI in predicting outbreaks.

Usama Fayyad speaks with Alessandro Vespignani - Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University. Tune in to hear Alessandro discuss his history in network science and AI, and hear his views on complex systems, the high dimensionality of network data, and the applications of AI in network science. 

Usama Fayyad speaks with Chris Wiggins - Associate Professor at Columbia University and Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. Tune in to hear Chris discuss his history in data and AI, and hear his views on social physics, generative AI, and experiential AI.

Usama Fayyad speaks with Rai Winslow - Director of Life Science and Medical Research at The Roux Institute. Tune in to hear Rai discuss his history in life sciences, medicine, Computational Medicine, and hear his views on the limitations of AI-based approaches.

Usama Fayyad speaks with Kenneth Church - professor of the practice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Tune in to hear Kenneth discuss his history in Information Retrieval, NLP, and search technology, and hear his views on the interest surrounding ChatGPT.

In this podcast, Samuel Scarpino, an expert in the field of AI and life sciences, shares his story of how he transitioned from a field biologist and geneticist to an AI expert. He discusses how his background in biology influences the kind of work he is planning to do at the Institute for Experiential AI. Reflecting on his role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Scarpino shares his insights on the potential role of AI in helping us prevent another pandemic.

He also discusses the biggest risks to leveraging AI in this context, including issues related to data privacy, government regulation, and data availability. Scarpino sheds light on the field of network science and its importance in the life sciences. He shares his thoughts on the opportunities at the interface of AI and network science and how AI practitioners can benefit from incorporating network science into their work.

Listen to this exciting podcast with insightful answers to provocative questions, with Usama Fayyad and Samuel Scarpino. 

Usama Fayyad speaks with Rajesh Parekh - Engineering Director @ Google, former Vice President of Data Science at Groupon. Tune in to hear Rajesh discuss how data was originally used in consumer tech, and his views on the changes in utilization of data and its applications.

Usama Fayyad speaks with Samir Khleif - Biomedical Scholar, Professor of Oncology @ Georgetown University. Tune in to hear Samir discuss the current role of AI in cancer therapeutics, and his views on how AI will help in developing drugs in the future.

Usama Fayyad speaks with Derek White - CEO of Galileo Financial Technologies. Tune in to hear Derek discuss fintech, how humans interact with technology and money, and his views on how human behavior changes with the interface that they engage with.