The AI Math Guy Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the AI Math Guy podcast! Today, host Jae Kim sits down with educational visionary and personal mentor, Michael Matsuda. After nearly 12 transformative years at the helm of the Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD), Michael is officially retired—but his work shaping the future of education is far from over. In this insightful and reflective conversation, Michael s...

Are you waiting for tech companies to fix the broken systems in education, or are you ready to build the solutions yourself? In this incredible episode, Jae sits down with Megan Hsu—a Stanford-educated Special Education Program Manager with 15 years of experience—who turned her daily frustrations with outdated school tech into a passion for app development. After feeling the weight of burnout and...

Are our schools still operating like 19th-century factories? In this episode of the AI Math Guy podcast, host Jae sits down with Dr. Beth Fisher, an educator and administrator with 18 years of experience, to unpack the systemic challenges of the American public school system and how Artificial Intelligence might be the ultimate disruptor. Dr. Fisher shares her unique perspective from the trenches...

Welcome to another episode of The AI Math Guys ! In this episode, host Jae Kim sits down with Leeland Zhang, the innovative co-founder of Grassroots Academy. Leeland shares his bold journey from studying at UCLA and Northwestern to taking the ultimate leap of faith: dropping out to build a personalized AI learning platform. Together, Jae and Leeland dive deep into the real-world impact of Artifici...

In our latest conversation, we sat down with Kunal, a former principal and author who is thinking miles ahead of the current EdTech curve. While most of the world is still figuring out chatbots, Kunal is already architecting the next phase: Agentic AI. He describes our current situation as an “incredible fragile moment.” Just like the “golden hour” after a car accident where the body hasn’t yet mo...

We recently sat down with Joseph Hartano, the Associate Director of Biola University’s AI Lab. Joseph helps students and faculty navigate the complex intersection of technology, ethics, and theology. Our conversation went deep—from neuroscience to the surprising reason why your AI chatbot might be a sycophant. Here are the key takeaways you need to know about how AI thinks (and why it might be lyi...

In our latest episode, Zach and I tackled one of the most pressing questions in education today: Where does the teacher end and the AI begin? We often hear fear-mongering about AI replacing educators. But what if the opposite is true? What if AI is actually the key to restoring the humanity of the teaching profession? Here is what we unpacked about boundaries, creativity, and the “Iron Man” suit w...

“If you have one year, grow rice. If you have 10 years, plant trees. If you have 100 years, educate the child.” In our latest episode of The AI Math Guy Podcast , we sat down with Dr. Jeff Kim. His resume is impressive—he is a university professor, an Irvine Unified School District board member, and the creator of the first Korean-American Ethnic Studies course in the United States. But beyond the...

We often think of Artificial Intelligence as a black box that spits out answers. But what is actually happening inside? And more importantly for us as educators and parents—is it safe? In this episode of The AI Math Guy , we sat down with Spiros , a PhD candidate at Boston University specializing in decision-making algorithms. He took us under the hood of machine learning, from “bandit algorithms”...

This is the question keeping educators and parents up at night. In our latest deep dive, my co-founder Zach and I stripped away the hype to look at what is actually happening under the hood of AI in math education. Zach, a former teacher of eight years, shared a humbling realization: “I realized how much I didn’t know about education until I tried to translate it for an AI.” When you try to codify...

I recently sat down with Mark, a former math tutor who has tutored everyone from the children of Fortune 500 CEOs to student-athletes in underserved communities. He has seen the full spectrum of wealth and opportunity, yet the struggle at the kitchen table remains universal. In this episode, we tackled the elephant in the room: If AI is the “smartest” math tutor in the world, what is the role of t...

I recently sat down with Michael, a Senior Software Engineer at Square (and ex-Facebook) with over a decade of experience. I asked him the question that is on every parent and educator’s mind: Will AI automate software engineering? His answer was blunt: “I basically don’t write a single line of code without an AI companion... What we’ve done is basically replace coding labor. That is essentially a...

Why artificial intelligence is only as good as the human judgment guiding it. There is a classic story about an engineer who is called to a factory because a vital machine has broken down. It’s costing the company millions. The engineer walks in, looks at the machine for a few minutes, pulls out a hammer, and gently taps one specific nail. The machine roars back to life. Later, he sends an invoice...

Hello everyone! Today, we are doing something a little different. We are pulling back the curtain on Someta to introduce my co-founder and COO, Zach. We hopped on the mics (for a podcast that currently has no name—we’re working on it) to talk about where we came from, why we built this company, and the massive shift happening in education right now. Zach isn’t your typical tech founder. He spent e...