Impact AI

The climate crisis is one of the most important and complex challenges of our age, and solving it will require collaboration, innovation, and commitment. According to Project Drawdown (a non-profit organization that functions as a top resource for climate solutions), one of the key drivers of climate change that we can meaningfully address as a society, is food waste. In today’s episode, we learn...

Today, I am joined by Ersin Bayram, the director of AI and data science at Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, to talk about tissue imaging during cancer surgery. This technology provides real-time margin visualization to surgeons intraoperatively vs. waiting days later for the pathology report, which remains the gold standard for confirming margin status. The surgical oncologists’ goal is to achieve cl...

Matt Gray is the co-founder and CEO of TransitionZero, a not-for-profit analyzing financial data to manage the decline of fossil fuels and support the shift to zero carbon growth opportunities. During today’s conversation, we talk about how TransitionZero leverages the power of machine learning to create a positive impact on the world. We touch on the mechanics before acknowledging the indispensab...

Today, I am joined by Kilian Koepsell, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Caption Health. We’re taking on the multifaceted topic of ultrasound for early disease detection. Join us as Kilian talks about the problem Caption Health identified in the world of ultrasound use, and how he is working to solve it. Hear how he is using machine learning to help practitioners to guide and interpret ul...

Climate change is impacting many industries across the globe, and the farming and agriculture industry is no exception. Changes in rainfall patterns, temperature, and increasingly extreme weather place farmers under immense strain and threaten food security. However, there is a solution, and Manal Elarab, the COO at Regrow Ag, is here to explain how Regrow is changing the farming industry. Regrow...

Over the past few years, there has been a concerning rise in rates of depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders, especially among adolescents and young adults. In addition, the current state of our national healthcare system is not set up to offer equitable access to all, depriving a huge portion of the population of the help they need. The new platform, Kintsugi, has been taking impo...

Creating a lasting impact on a large scale requires collaboration, and globally reducing emissions is one of the most impactful, large-scale goals one could have at this point in time. My guest on today’s show is Gavin McCormick, an economist by training who has immersed himself in the world of machine learning through the founding of WattTime, a company fighting climate change by automating devic...

Giving generic drugs a new life in oncology is a game-changing strategy for developing new and affordable treatment options for cancer patients. But it would take years to review the thousands upon thousands of published research studies on non-cancer drugs tested as cancer treatments to identify the most promising candidates. Luckily, nonprofit health tech startup Reboot Rx is stepping in to solv...

Today I'm joined by the Founder and CEO of Aquabyte, Bryton Shang, to discuss his mission to improve and enable fish farm efficiency and sustainability. Bryton fills us in on the role machine learning plays in monitoring underwater fish farm environments, the challenges of gathering and annotating data to build and train their models, and how their human-in-the-loop QA process converges to find so...

All women face the risk of breast cancer, but early detection can greatly increase the chances of a positive outcome and reduce the need for aggressive treatment options. In this episode, I talk with Tobias Rijken, CTO and co-founder of Kheiron Medical Technologies, about leveraging AI for detecting breast cancer. We discuss the role of AI in improving medical care, the power of vertical integrati...

In this episode, I talk with Gershom Kutliroff, CTO of Taranis, about precision agriculture. Taranis uses computer vision to monitor fields, providing critical insights to growers. Gershom and I talked about how they gather and annotate data, the challenges they encounter in working with aerial imagery, and how they validate their models and accommodate data drift with continuous learning. Quotes...

In this episode, I talk with Vinod Subramanian, Chief Data and Product Development Officer at Syapse, about machine learning for healthcare and advancements in cancer treatment. Syapse is a real world evidence company dedicated to improving outcomes for cancer and other serious diseases. Vinod and I talked about the types of healthcare data they work with, the data challenges they encounter, how t...

In this episode, I talk with Patrick Leung, Co-founder and CTO of Earthshot Labs, about using machine learning to help predict and restore forests and our ecosystem. Earthshot Labs is building the technology and expert guidance to develop and finance nature-based carbon projects globally. Patrick and I talked about how Earthshot Labs gathers and annotates data, the challenges in working with remot...

In this episode, I talk with Matt Pipke, Co-founder and Chief Digital Health Officer of physIQ, about personalized medical predictions from physiology data. Matt and I talked about the challenges in working with physiology data, how to validate models and minimize bias, and the importance of collaboration. Quotes: “What physIQ does is it harvests data from those continuous data streams from wearab...

In this episode, I talk with Emi Gal, co-founder and CEO of Ezra, about cancer screening with a full body MRI scan. Ezra is on a mission to detect cancer early for everyone by making the process more accurate, faster, and cheaper. Emi and I talked about the challenges in working with MR data, how regulatory processes affect model development, and the importance of validation. Quotes: “What we've b...

In this episode, I talk with Amanda Marrs, senior director of product at AMP Robotics about modernizing the world’s recycling infrastructure. Amanda and I talked about how they ensure their models work for a diverse set of objects, measuring the success of their technology, and some tips for building a successful ML team. Quotes: “At AMP we have a broad mission of enabling a world without waste.”...

In this episode, I talk with Mahyar Salek, co-founder and CTO of Deepcell, about an AI powered technology for single cell analysis through the lense of high content cell morphology.  Deepcell's platform blends deep learning, microfluidics, and high resolution optics to deliver novel insights about cell biology and has the capability to sort, label-free for downstream multi-omic and functional anal...

In this episode, I talk with Coleman Stavish and Julianna Ianni from Proscia about data-driven pathology. Coleman is the co-founder and CTO of Proscia and Julianna is the VP of AI Research & Development. We discussed the importance of quality control systems in an ML pipeline, model generalizability, and how the regulatory process affects ML development. Quotes: “Better accuracy in diagnosis m...

In this episode, I talk with Joe Peterson, co-founder and CTO of SimBioSys, about biophysical modeling of cancer. SimBioSys is trying to revolutionize precision cancer care through individualized treatment planning, accelerated drug development, clinical trial optimization, and comprehensive biomarker development. Joe and I talked about the challenges of working with heterogeneous forms of data an...

In this episode, I talk with Eric Adamson, CEO of Tortuga AgTech, about smarter farming. Tortuga AgTech builds robots for harvesting fruit and vegetables to help farms be more resilient, sustainable, and successful. Quotes : “Figuring out that pipeline from someone else's knowledge to the robot knows it is really critical.” “If you build technology because the technology is cool or because you can...

In this episode, I talk with John Bertrand, CEO of Digital Diagnostics, about autonomous diagnostics. Digital Diagnostics transforms the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare with AI-powered diagnostics. They developed the first FDA-cleared autonomous AI system. Quotes : “So we look for diagnostics where there's an established understanding of what the disease is and ther...

In this episode, I talk with David Schurman, co-founder and CTO of Perennial, about their verification platform for climate-smart agriculture. Perennial uses geospatial data and machine learning to unlock agricultural soils as the world’s largest carbon sink. Highlights: How Perennial gathers and annotates training data from satellites and ground-based observations. Handling variations across sate...

In this episode, I talk with Matt Alderdice, Head of Data Science at Sonrai Analytics, about precision medicine. Sonrai Analytics automates laborious data processes and speeds up new drug and healthcare developments. Highlights: Machine learning for automating time-consuming and tedious analysis of microscopy images. Training for machine learning practitioners new to pathology by integrating domai...

In this episode, I talk with David Golan, co-founder and CTO of Viz.ai, about diagnosis of acute and emergent diseases. Viz.ai increases the speed of diagnosis and care for a variety of conditions to improve the lives of patients. Highlights: Increasing access to lifesaving treatments. The importance of the full system, not just the machine learning component, in accelerating workflows. Their clin...

In this episode, I talk with Steve Brumby, co-founder, CEO and CTO of Impact Observatory, about sustainability and environmental risk analysis. Impact Observatory uses satellite imagery and machine learning to empower decision-makers with planetary insights. Highlights: Using machine learning to generate thematic maps to represent land cover and land use. Geospatial data from the European Space Ag...