Discovery Engines – with Nabil
Episodes
Building Safe AI - MIT AI Alignment's Riya Tyagi and Gatlen Culp
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Riya and Gatlen are board members of MIT AI Alignment, an organization focused on reducing risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Join us as we ...
AI for Physics Discovery - Jesse Thaler of NSF's IAIFI, MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Thaler is Director of the National Science Foundation's AI for Physics "Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions" (IAI...
Universal Lab Automation - Rick Wierenga of PyLabRobot
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Wierenga is creator of PyLabRobot, an open-source, hardware-agnostic Python SDK that's lowering the barriers to lab automation for scientists, st...
Breaking Into AI for Science - Alishba Imran of UC Berkeley BAIR, Arc Institute, CZ Biohub, Voltx
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alishba Imran is a deep learning researcher at UC Berkeley's BAIR AI Lab, a Research Fellow at the Arc Institute, a former Research Intern at the Chan...
Unleashing Scientific Data - Nicholas Larus-Stone of Sphinx Bio, Bits in Bio
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Larus-Stone is the Founder & CEO of Sphinx Bio, a startup helping life science labs unlock the full potential of their data to accelerate dis...
Inside the DOE's Autonomous Lab for Materials Discovery - David Milsted, Lab Systems Engineer
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Milsted is a postdoctoral researcher at the “A-Lab” for autonomous materials discovery, located at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Ber...
Unlocking Cancer Priming Therapies (& Lab Tour) - Transon Nguyen of Eigen Therapeutics
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transon Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eigen Therapeutics, a biotech startup leveraging AI and lab automation to develop priming therapies that m...
Unlocking Lab Automation - Sudha Gollapudi & Madeline Wolf of The Automated Lab
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sudha Gollapudi & Madeline Wolf (ex Genentech, Ginkgo Bioworks, Calico/Alphabet) are lab automation experts and co-founders of The Automated Lab: an o...
Accelerating Cancer Research - Hani Goodarzi of Arc Institute, UCSF, Exai Bio
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hani Goodarzi is Quantitative and Computational Biologist, Core Investigator at the Arc Institute, Associate Professor at UCSF, and co-founder of Exai...
Accelerating Scientist Founders - Hemai Parthasarathy of Google X, Thiel Foundation, Nature, MIT
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hemai Parthasarathy is a neuroscientist (Johns Hopkins, MIT), Editor (Nature, PLOS), and expert at helping deep tech startups build and scale (Thiel F...
Inside Biotech Lab Automation - Luis Villa of Bay Area Lab Automators
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luis Villa co-founded Bay Area Lab Automators, and is a Senior Automation engineer at cell therapy manufacturing startup Cellares. See below for episo...
AI-Powered Animal Research - Michael Kaca of Olden Labs
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kaca is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Olden Labs, a startup bringing animal research into the modern age through a suite of custom h...
The Startup Building AI Scientists - Cristian Ponce & Théo Schäfer of Tetsuwan
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cristian Ponce and Théo Schäfer are the co-founders of Tetsuwan, a startup building AI scientists to accelerate life science research. See below for...