Bridging the AI Gap: Inside MIT’s Systalyze Startup with Associate Professor Manya Ghobadi

About this episode

Professor Manya Ghobadi discusses her startup Systalyze and the challenges of deploying AI in various industries.

In this episode of MIT CSAIL Alliances, host Kara Miller sits down with Professor Manya Ghobadi, a researcher and entrepreneur bridging the gap between academia and industry. Ghobadi, who has worked at Microsoft Research, Google, and now leads her own startup Systalyze, explores why so many companies struggle to efficiently deploy AI — and how her team is creating the “AI doctor” enterprises didn’t know they needed. From hospitals sitting on mountains of private data to banks seeking smarter fraud detection, Ghobadi explains how better infrastructure and smarter tools can finally unlock AI’s full potential. Tune in for an inside look at how innovation moves from lab to launchpad — and what it takes to make AI work in the real world. Topics Include: 00:07 - Origins of Systalze 01:40 - AI systems are difficult to build 02:53 - Systalyze is like an AI doctor 03:38 - How AI can transform the health care industry 04:41 - When companies unlock their AI potential 05:13 - Academia as an enterprenuer Episodes, listener discounts, meet the host, and more can be found here: csail.mit.edu/podcast Connect with CSAIL Alliances: On our site: cap.csail.mit.edu/about-us/meet-our-team On LinkedIn…

People in this episode

Host: Kara Miller

Guest: Manya Ghobadi

Topics covered

• AI
• technology
• healthcare
• entrepreneurship
• data

Keywords

• Systalyze
• AI doctor
• health care transformation
• AI potential
• academic entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Systalze

Books & works: Bridging the AI Gap

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