Sriraam Natarajan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Dallas. In this episode Dr. Natarajan speaks with Pitt HexAI’s podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore’ about his background and interests in artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on healthcare and biomedical applications. Sriraam and Jordan discuss work being carried out at the University of Texas, advice Dr. Natarajan commonly offers students, his being chosen to chair the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s upcoming AAAI-24 conference and his views on explainable AI.