Making AI Possible
Making AI Possible
Podcast Description
Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your new monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward.
This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. Discover how cutting-edge research is being applied to transform and streamline healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance.
Each episode explores the "how" behind AI breakthroughs and the "why" that drives innovation—from lab to enterprise. Whether you're a technologist, strategist, or decision-maker, Making AI Possible offers rare insight into how advanced AI systems are built, governed, and applied in the real world. Tune in to discover how the latest research becomes transformative technology.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered around artificial intelligence, including its applications in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance. For instance, episodes explore how AI innovations from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are applied in real-world contexts, and discussions around the transformation of decision-making processes in organizations through advanced AI systems.
Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your new monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward.
This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. Discover how cutting-edge research is being applied to transform and streamline healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance.
Each episode explores the “how” behind AI breakthroughs and the “why” that drives innovation—from lab to enterprise. Whether you’re a technologist, strategist, or decision-maker, Making AI Possible offers rare insight into how advanced AI systems are built, governed, and applied in the real world. Tune in to discover how the latest research becomes transformative technology.
Caltech Affiliate Director of AI Programs Nicholas Beaudoin, talks with special guest Dr. Georgia Gkioxari on the subject, From Research to Application, where they discuss how research applies to industry use cases and their direct applications.
Dr. Georgia Gkioxari, PhD
Assistant Professor at the Computing + Mathematical Sciences at Caltech
Dr. Gkioxari obtained her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Jitendra Malik. Prior to Berkeley, she earned her diploma from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. After earning her PhD, she was a research scientist at Meta’s FAIR team. In 2021, she received the PAMI Young Researcher Award, which recognizes a young researcher for their distinguished research contribution to computer vision. Dr. Gkioxari the recipient of the PAMI Mark Everingham Award for the open-source software suite Detectron (2021), the Google Faculty Award (2024) and the Okawa Research Award (2024). In 2017, Dr. Gkioxari and her co-authors received the Marr Prize for “Mask R-CNN” published and presented at ICCV. She was named one of 30 influential women advancing AI in 2019 by ReWork and was nominated for the Women in AI Awards in 2020 by VentureBeat. ♦
As Caltech CTME’s Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech’s Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas’ focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations. ♦
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