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Conversations On Science

by Idris Sunmola

I have thought provoking conversations with research professors and students about their work, and how it impacts humanity. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

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Episodes

  1. Mathilde Caron, Self-Supervised Learning Research

    Mathilde Caron is a PhD. candidate at the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and at Facebook AI (Meta AI). She does the majority of her research in the field of Machine learning called self-supervised learning. She has a few first authorships on important...

  2. Robert Huang, Quantum Computing Research

    Robert Huang is a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Technology where he does theoretical research in the field of quantum computing. He is advised at CalTech by professors John Preskill and Thomas Vidick. His research touches on esoteric topics like quantum intelligence and quantum...

  3. Professor Maura Dykstra, Qing Dynasty Research

    Professor Maura Dykstra is a professor of history at the California Institute of Technology. She is an historian of late imperial Chinese history in which she obtained her PhD. from UCLA. She has held fellowships at East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Max Planck Institute for European...

  4. Dr. Sumner Norman, Brain Machine Interface Research

    Dr. Norman is a postgraduate researcher in the lab of professors Richard Anderson and Mikhail Shapiro at the California Institute of Technology. He did his baccalaureate education in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Utah. He was also an NSF graduate research fellow…

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  5. Dr. Mohamed Amgad, Machine Learning in Histopathology Research

    Dr. Mohamed Amgad is a medical doctor from Egypt and a current PhD candidate at Emory University’s computer science department. He’s also currently a visiting predoctoral fellow at Feinberg School of Medicine. He and I are labmates at the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine at The...

  6. Dr. Katie Hsiao, Short-term memory Research

    Dr Katie Hsiao is a Taiwanese neuroscience researcher at the prestigious Rockefeller University in New York. She’s a member of the Rajesethupathy Lab headed by Dr. Priya Rajesethupathy. She did her graduate work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she trained under Dr. Deanna...

  7. Michael Biddlestone, Conspiracy Theory Research

    Michael Biddlestone is a postgraduate researcher and associate lecturer in the school of Psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury UK. His research is focused on the group-orientated Social Identity motives behind conspiracy theory belief. You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin...

  8. Rachel Sherman, Genome Sequencing Research

    Rachel Sherman is a PhD candidate in computer science at The Johns Hopkins University. She does most of her research in the Salzberg Lab under professor Steven Salzberg where she analyzes human genomic data. Her groundbreaking work has been featured in prominent publications like The Atlantic....

  9. Dr. Mary Niedrauer, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research

    Mary Niedrauer is a new PhD from Purdue University. She does her research in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Peptide Synthesis. She also obtain her MBA during her time at Purdue. A US Army vet and Jiu Jitsu practitioner. You can donate to this podcast at this...

  10. Beverly Mok, Mitochondrial DNA Gene Editing Research

    Beverly Mok is a graduate student at Harvard University. She currently studies chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University and is a member of the Liu Lab at the MIT and Harvard Broad Institute. Her research work is centered around mitochondrial DNA gene editing. Publication:...

  11. Prof Thomas McDade, Covid-19 Testing Research

    Professor Thomas McDade is a professor of Biological Anthropology. He’s also a faculty fellow at the institute for policy research, and director of the laboratory for human biology research. With a group of collaborators, he created a Covid-19 at home test kit that uses dried blood on filter…

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  12. Dr. Laetitia Francelle, Parkinson's Research

    Dr Francelle is a French molecular neuroscientist that’s currently a postdoctoral candidate at Feinberg school of medicine. We went in depth on neurodegenerative diseases like Hunington’s and Parkinson’s disease and their pathologies. You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin address:...

  13. Andrew Jo, Ophthalmology Research

    Andrew Jo is a visual ophthalmology PhD research candidate at Feinberg School of Medicine. He does his research under Professor Yongling Zhu and Professor Steve DeVries at Feinberg. Enjoy the show! You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin address: 33wejXuGGDtQj9GPwCgjwPxPq4dc4muZjg

  14. Prof Ermin Wei, Algorithm Research

    For this episode, I interview a very impressive researcher at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. Talking to Professor Ermin Wei, we touch on a variety of very technical topics like household robotics and algorithms used to make our electric grid more efficient. We…

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  15. Prof Pedram Khalili, Spintronics Research

    For this episode, I interview the principal investigator of one of the labs I’m in called PerLab. Professor Pedram Khalili is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. At PerLab, which stands for Physical Electronics Lab, we work on...

  16. Stacy Montgomery, Climate Change Researcher

    Anastacia Montgomery is a PhD student at Northwestern in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She’s also a member of the Climate Change Research group. You can donate to this podcast at this bitcoin address: 33wejXuGGDtQj9GPwCgjwPxPq4dc4muZjg

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I have thought provoking conversations with research professors and students about their work, and how it impacts humanity. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

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I have thought provoking conversations with research professors and students about their work, and how it impacts humanity. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/idris-sunmola/support

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