Distributed AI

In this episode of the Distributed AI Podcast, Timothy Chou speaks with George Jeno, co-founder of TieSet, about his journey from academic research to building scalable federated learning infrastructure. The conversation explores the challenges of moving federated learning from theory into production, architectural approaches to large-scale distributed AI, and real-world applications in manufactur...

In this episode of the Distributed AI Podcast, Timothy Chou speaks with Dr. Graham Jones of Novartis about how federated learning and digital biomarkers could transform drug development for Parkinson’s disease. The conversation explores the origins of a landmark Nature paper, the challenges of sharing data across pharma, foundations, and academia, and a long-term vision for using home-based, longi...

Rene Haas, CEO of ARM, joins Timothy Chou to discuss how ARM has become a foundational architecture for cloud, edge, and AI computing. He explains the shift from x86 dominance to ARM-based CPUs in hyperscale data centers, the rise of agentic workloads, the future of AI at the edge, and why he believes health care may become AI’s most important application. This episode is brought to you by BevelCl...

In this episode, Dr. Oliver Saldanha of Cather Lab joins host Timothy to explore how swarm learning is transforming medical AI—from histopathology to global multi-center collaboration. Hear the story behind his landmark Nature paper, the technical breakthroughs in decentralized model training, and how his team is paving the way for real-world deployment of federated AI across the healthcare ecosys...

Markus Bujotzek, PhD student at the German Cancer Research Center, joins host Timothy to unpack the challenges and successes of deploying real-world federated learning in radiology. Learn how Markus and his team used the open-source Kaapana platform across six university hospitals to tackle organizational, legal, and infrastructure hurdles—and why their results prove that federated learning is mor...

Listen to Dr Timothy Chou introduce us to the Distributed AI Podcast presented by BevelCloud. This episode is brought to you by BevelCloud—empowering the future of distributed AI in healthcare. Learn more at BevelCloud.ai.

In this insightful episode of the dAI Podcast, host Timothy Chou interviews Hugo Song, Product Manager at Google Research, to discuss the transformative power of Federated Learning and its role in advancing privacy and utility in machine learning. Hugo shares his journey from programming with Visual Basic in high school to working on cutting-edge AI technologies at Google. The conversation delves...

In this episode of the Distributed AI Podcast, Timothy Chou sits down with Matt Siegel, Co-Founder of BitFount and former leader of the Private Federated Learning team at Apple. Together, they explore the transformative power of Federated Learning, its role in preserving data privacy, and its applications across industries like healthcare and life sciences. Matt shares insights into his journey fr...

In this episode of the Distributed AI Podcast, Timothy Chou sits down with Dr. Berivan Isik, a recent Ph. D. graduate from Stanford University and a research scientist at Google. Dr. Isik shares her journey from Turkey to Stanford, her pioneering work on federated learning, and her focus on efficient and trustworthy AI. The conversation delves into her Ph. D. thesis on improving communication effi...

Our guest Hina Dixit, co-founder and CEO of Decomp Compute, discusses her journey from leading investments at Microsoft’s M12 and Samsung Next to founding a company that aims to revolutionize AI infrastructure. Hina shares insights into the challenges of heterogeneity in AI compute, the inspiration behind her patented fine-tuning technique LaserTune, and her vision for empowering businesses to bui...

In this episode of the Distributed AI Podcast, host Timothy Chou sits down with Andrew Wheeler, Director of Hewlett Packard Labs, to explore the forefront of AI and distributed computing. They discuss HPE’s advancements in AI supercomputing, distributed AI workflows, and the transformative potential of Swarm Learning in industries like healthcare. Andrew shares insights into Hewlett Packard Labs’...

Our guest Prashant Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Federated Machine Learning at Intel, discusses the transformative power of Federated learning and confidential computing in healthcare. He explores how these technologies enable secure collaboration on sensitive healthcare data, driving innovation while ensuring patient privacy. This episode is brought to you by BevelCloud—empowering the future...

Our guest Dr. Nic Lane, co-founder of Flower Labs and professor at Cambridge, discusses the growing role of Federated learning in AI. He explains how distributed AI can unlock vast amounts of data while ensuring privacy, and how it will play a critical role in scaling AI models across industries such as healthcare and finance. This episode is brought to you by BevelCloud—empowering the future of d...