Making AI Possible

Caltech Affiliate Director of AI Programs Nicholas Beaudoin, talks with special guest Dr. Georgia Gkioxari on the subject, From Research to Application, where they discuss how research applies to industry use cases and their direct applications.Dr. Georgia Gkioxari, PhDAssistant Professor at the Computing + Mathematical Sciences at CaltechDr. Gkioxari obtained her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Jitendra Malik. Prior to Berkeley, she earned her diploma from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. After earning her PhD, she was a research scientist at Meta's FAIR team. In 2021, she received the PAMI Young Researcher Award, which recognizes a young researcher for their distinguished research contribution to computer vision. Dr. Gkioxari the recipient of the PAMI Mark Everingham Award for the open-source software suite Detectron (2021), the Google Faculty Award (2024) and the Okawa Research Award (2024). In 2017, Dr. Gkioxari and her co-authors received the Marr Prize for “Mask R-CNN” published and presented at ICCV. She was named one of 30 influential women advancing AI in 2019 by ReWork and was nominated for the Women in AI Awards in 2020 by VentureBeat. ♦ As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations.  ♦

Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your new monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward.This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. Discover how cutting-edge research is being applied to transform and streamline healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance. Tune in to discover how the latest research becomes transformative technology.Dr. Matthew Graham, Research Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology received his MA in Physics from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. After a postdoc at Imperial College London, he came to Caltech in 2003, initially as a Senior Postdoctoral Scholar and then transitioning to a Computational Scientist within the Center for Advanced Computing Research. He has been a Member of the Professional Staff at Caltech and in 2017, he became research faculty in astronomy. Matthew has extensive experience in large sky surveys and their computational challenges, particularly the application of machine learning and advanced statistical methodologies to astrophysical problems. Matthew is currently the co-PI and Project Scientist for the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), the first of a next generation of time-domain sky surveys producing hundreds of thousands of public transient alerts per night. He also has ongoing research projects on real-time low latency inferencing— real-time AI at scale —the application of reinforcement learning to optimize follow-up observations of short lived phenomena, the development of neural differential models for modeling black holes, and the functional analysis modeling of multivariate time series. ♦As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations

Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward.This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. Discover how cutting-edge research is being applied to transform and streamline healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance. Tune in to discover how the latest research becomes transformative technology.Richard Anderson is the Director of Quantitative Analysis for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is a data scientist with a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Before joining the Dodgers, he worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Warner Bros. Discovery and as the Director of Baseball Analytics for the Cincinnati Reds. He also has experience with the Los Angeles Angels and has expertise in R, Python, SQL, and stan. Richard is passionate about education, statistics, casual inference, experimentation and his dog, Ralphie. ♦As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations.  ♦

Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward. This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA.Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero has spent a career exploring remote sensing, machine learning, data science and computer vision on a variety of orbital and terrestrial platforms. An Alum of Carnegie Mellon University, he worked at General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin building real time satellite payloads, teaching and working on remote sensing at ARL-PSU, building global machine learning pipelines at Planet Labs, Orbital Insight, and Maxar Technologies, and Directing AI/ML Execution at the Aerospace Corporation. As director of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Aerospace Corporation, Manuel  coordinates with teams to consult a variety of government customers on a wide base of missions related to space. His team has focused on the creation of a development stack that simplifies the complexities of creating, training, and deploying machine learning capabilities that can educate and inform government stakeholders on data that is relevant to their missions in meaningful environments.As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations.

 Konstantin Batygin a planetary scientist and professor at Caltech, where he focuses on the dynamics of planets, planetary formation, and celestial mechanics. His work includes theoretical research on the solar system's planets as well as broader studies on exoplanet formation and evolution. In addition to astrophysics, Konstantin is passionate about music and regularly make noises with his band, The Seventh Season.  Learn more: gps.caltech.edu/people/konstantin-batygin ♦ As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations.  

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Leadership Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward. This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. In our October 7 session of Making AI Possible, Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin, sits down with Dr. Crystal Dilworth, Caltech PhD, global science communicator, and host of the 100+ year Watson Lecture series, about the evolving intersection of science communication and artificial intelligence. They discuss what AI can and cannot solve in bridging the gap between research and leadership, share stories of AI as both a personal collaborator and a team thought partner, and explore how AI systems carry cultural assumptions into the workplace and beyond. From training scientists to lead in entrepreneurial spaces, to weighing whether enterprise AI choices reflect or reshape organizational values, this conversation challenges us to consider how the tools we deploy shape the future we want to build. Dr. Crystal Dilworth, AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador for STEM, is an international voice for science, strategic communicator, and non-profit board member. She received her PhD from the Caltech division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 2014 and for the last decade has worked as a science communicator, television correspondent, and start-up advisor. She is host of the historic Watson Lectures series at Caltech, and can also be found on networks including Voice of America, Al Jazeera, and CBS. Off-screen, Dr. Dilworth works closely with academic groups and early stage start-ups, training faculty and founders in public speaking, leadership communication, and storytelling. She is an advisor for the AI working group of the Future Talent Council, helping build best practices for AI integration into higher ed and executive leadership environments, and the start-up software company Instill.ai, building the world's first AI powered "culture operating system". ♦ As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations

We'll talk about the questions that every leader should be asking right now:Hacker vs. Cybercriminal: When AI joins the fight, do we face a new category? An AI Cyberhacker, or something even more autonomous?Securing the Foundations of AI: Why data integrity and trust are the real first lines of defense for both traditional and LLM-based systems.The Hidden Infrastructure: Protecting AI’s compute backbone from invisible threats.Adversarial AI: The rise of offensive machine learning, and what happens when the model becomes the weapon.The Human Factor: Building a security-first AI culture that does not rely on a few experts, but everyone.The future of responsible AI depends on one thing: treating cybersecurity not as a barrier, but as an enabler Ismael Montañez “Ish” is a Cybersecurity Engineer, Ethical Hacker, and Purple Team Specialist with over six years of experience protecting AI-driven systems and cloud environments. He holds two bachelor’s degrees in Cyber Forensics with Network Security and Digital Media, blending technical precision with creative problem solving to design resilient security architectures. Before entering the private sector, Ish served as a Military Intelligence Sergeant, managing classified intelligence operations and developing expertise in threat analysis and secure information handling. He also spent four years in the financial industry, conducting IT and Linux forensics to safeguard critical data and digital assets. Ismael currently works at a leading artificial intelligence company, where he focuses on cybersecurity engineering, cloud security and engineering, AI security and oversight, and proactive defense strategies. His mission is to bridge the gap between human ingenuity and machine intelligence ensuring that innovation in AI remains secure, ethical, and resilient. ♦As Caltech CTME's Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech's Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas' focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations.  ♦