The Prepare.ai Podcast

Jason Keune on How to Champion AI Ethics in Medicine

Dr. Jason Keune is the executive director of St. Louis University’s Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics, established in 2007 to promote ethical business practices in medicine and healthcare.  Dr. Keune is also an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He performs abdominal and gastrointestinal surgeries and conducts research on biomedical ethics, medical business ethics and social justice. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, where he also received a Graduate Certificate in Professional Ethics. Jason also holds an MBA in management from St. Louis University

Sanmay Das on Algorithms Making Societal Decisions

Sanmay Das is a professor of Computer Science at George Mason University. From 2013-2020, he was on the faculty of the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also founded and served as the first chair of the steering committee of the Division of Computational and Data Sciences. Dr. Das received his Ph.D. from MIT and a Bachelor's degree from Harvard, both in Computer Science. He is chair of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the board of directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and serves as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. He has been recognized with awards for research and teaching, including an NSF CAREER Award and the Department Chair Award for Outstanding Teaching at Washington University.

George Holmes on Founding a Robotic Lawn-Mowing Startup

George Leno Holmes Jr is the co-founder and CEO of Hire Henry, a robotic lawn-mowing startup that is growing and evolving rapidly in the heartland of the United States. George received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, focusing on the intersection of human-robot interaction, mechatronic design, and robotics.  George leads the development of the company's R&D plan, strategic milestones, intellectual property protection, company formation, fundraising, and network security. Additionally, he is involved in product design, fabrication, and software integration.

Physna Founder Paul Powers on the Digital 3D Revolution

Serial entrepreneur Paul Powers co-founded Physna in 2015 to bridge the gap between software and the physical world by normalizing 3D data and applying machine learning to it. Physna's proprietary technology is patent-pending in over 120 countries and is used in cybersecurity, protecting the integrity of 3D designs in aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and other industries from otherwise untraceable manipulations & cyber attacks. Physna technology, which can compare and analyze millions of 3D models in seconds, is also used to increase efficiency with CAD design, reduce supply chain / procurement costs, optimize inventory, and make quality control predictions immediately upon design.

WashU's William Yeoh on Fairness in Ride-Sharing Apps

William Yeoh is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a co-director of the Division of Computational and Data Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are in optimization, heuristic search, and planning under uncertainty, especially in the context of multi-agent systems. He is an NSF CAREER recipient and was named in IEEE's AI's 10-to-Watch list in 2015. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, on the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Board of Directors, and on the Symposium on Combinatorial Search Council. He has served on the committees of numerous AI-related conferences including AAAI, AAMAS, ICAPS, and IJCAI. He was also a conference co-chair of the 2019 Symposium of Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2019) and is a program co-chair of the 2022 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2022).