Have suggestions for future podcast guests (or other feedback)? Let us know here!In episode 43 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Varun Ganapathi.Varun is co-founder and CTO at AKASA, a company developing AI systems for healthcare operations. Varun’s previous entrepreneurial experience includes co-founding Numovis, a company focused on motion tracking and computer vision for user interaction that was acquired by Google, and Terminal.com, a browser-based IDE acquired by Udacity. Varun received his PhD from Stanford in 2014.Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:*

Intro*

Varun’s intro to AI*

Working with Andrew Ng*

Varun’s road to a PhD*

Numovis, Google acquisition*

Vacillating between research and entrepreneurship, Terminal.com*

Roots of Varun’s interest in AI + healthcare*

Research at AKASA, Deep Claim*

Causality in claim denial, expert knowledge*

we need to trademark the word “gradient”*

AKASA’s Unified Automation, expert-in-the-loop*

Varun’s near-term and long-term visions for AKASA*

Towards “deploying a new version of healthcare”*

Varun’s perspective on the role of AI in healthcare, the need for humans in the loop*

Varun’s advice for aspiring AI researchers and practitioners*