About this episode

Karthik Duraisamy discusses the Institute of Agentic Computing and the impact of AI on science and education.

Karthik Duraisamy is a professor at the University of Michigan. He is co-leading U of M's newly created Institute of Agentic Computing, the first of its kind. The institute will serve researchers and developers building agentic AI infrastructure to advance scientific discovery, engineering, and the knowledge economy. It will also be a central node for managing developers and maintainers of the OpenClaw platform. Karthik's research spans a broad spectrum of computational science and engineering, including new modeling approaches for complex physical systems, numerical methods, algorithms and uncertainty quantification. This is the first conversation Karthik’s had going deep on the institute. We talk about using AI to advance scientific research, two new discoveries announced yesterday, how universities work, how AI is impacting students and education, and his advice for young people. Thank you to Numeral, Flex, and Amplitude for supporting this episode Numeral: The end-to-end platform for sales tax and compliance https://www.numeral.com](https://www.numeral.com/ Flex: Sign-up for Flex Elite with code TURNER, get $1,000 https://form.typeform.com/to/Rx9rTjFz Amplitude: AI analytics…

People in this episode

Host: Turner Novak

Guest: Karthik Duraisamy

Topics covered

• Agentic AI
• scientific discovery
• education
• computational science
• AI impact
• knowledge economy

Keywords

• Agentic AI
• scientific research
• education
• University of Michigan
• OpenClaw
• computational science
• AI discoveries

Sponsors

Numeral, Flex, Amplitude

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Michigan, Institute of Agentic Computing, OpenClaw

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