Yijia Shao, Shannon Shen, Michael Ryan

Augmented Mind Podcast

Technology EN ↓ 6 episodes

With AI making major waves in society people often lose focus of the reason to build such technology: uplifting humanity. The Augmented Mind Podcast highlights technical human-centered AI research contributions by interviewing the leading minds driving the human side of the AI revolution. Hosted by Yijia Shao, Shannon Shen, and Michael Ryan

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Yijia Shao, Shannon Shen, Michael Ryan

Episodes

It's Our Mathematics: AI, Verification, and the Future of Math with Jeremy Avigad | AM Podcast #5 09.06.2026 1:01:22

Jeremy Avigad is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Jeremy is a pioneer in using AI for Mathematics and the co-creator of the Lean Theorem Prover. Currently, he is the director of the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics at CMU, Dean's Chair in Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, and the director of the newly-e...

The Privacy Layer of Personal Intelligence with Ken Liu | AM Podcast #4 04.05.2026 57:25

Ken Liu is a Stanford CS PhD student and founder of The Open Anonymity Project. Ken’s pioneering work explores the intersection between language models and data & user privacy. Outline : 0:00 - Teaser 1:08 - Prelude: Introducing Ken Liu 1:41 - Monologue: The Open Anonymity Project 3:41 - Ken’s Path to Privacy Research 6:31 - The Biggest Privacy Concern for LLM Users 9:39 - Three Perspectives o...

A User-Centric Perspective on LLM Inference | AM Podcast #3 31.03.2026 49:41

Woosuk Kwon is CTO of Inferact and creator of the vLLM inference library. Woosuk shares what it takes to build the most popular open-source LLM inference engine from a human-centered perspective. Outline: 0:00 - Prelude: Introducing Woosuk and Inferact 3:00 - Woosuk’s First PhD Project 6:00 - How the vLLM Project Got Started 9:18 - AI Infra Needs More Than Just Efficiency 14:08 - How AI Infra and...

Building AI Systems for Imperfect Humans with Sherry Wu | AM Podcast #2 27.02.2026 46:56

Sherry Wu is a professor at CMU whose research sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction and natural language processing. From making AI work for imperfect humans to making humans work better with AI — Sherry's work challenges us to rethink both sides of the equation. Outline: 0:00 - Teaser 1:13 - Prelude: Introducing Sherry Wu 2:30 - How the AI Field Has Changed in the Last Four...

Bridging Human-AI Grounding Gaps with Omar Shaikh | AM Podcast #1 23.01.2026 52:26

Omar Shaikh is a Stanford PhD student, HCI and NLP researcher, and author of the award-winning UIST 2025 paper “Creating General User Models from Computer Use”. Omar’s pioneering work aims to bridge the Human-AI grounding gap. Outline: 0:00 - Teaser 1:21 - Prelude: Introducing Omar Shaikh 2:07 - Monologue: Better Context for AI 4:22 - Bridging the Human-AI Grounding Gap 6:14 - Confidence scores in...

Introducing The Augmented Mind: A Podcast for Technical Human-centered AI 21.01.2026 17:22

Introducing The Augmented Mind Podcast (The AM Podcast). We explore techniques for building AI models that collaborate with people and augment human intelligence. In Episode 0, we share who we are, why we started this podcast, and what we're looking forward to. Outline: 0:00 - Prelude: the problems we care about 1:48 - Host introduction 2:03 - Why we started the AM Podcast 2:31 - Hot takes on...