Lex Fridman Podcast

  • #114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

    Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations. Support this podcast…


  • #113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

    Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives. Support this podcast…


  • #112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

    Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is…


  • #111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

    Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of…


  • #110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

    Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over…


  • #109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

    Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life…


  • #108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

    Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception…


  • #107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

    Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme…


  • #106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

    Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. Support this podcast by supporting these sponsors: – The…


  • #105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

    Robert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He has bridged theory and practice by being…


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