6 episodes
Science & Engineering
Hard tech, research breakthroughs, and the people pushing the frontier.
EP 11Evelyn Chang
Your Lung Map Is a Week Old: Evelyn Chang on AI in Medical Robotics, Robotic Bronchoscopy, and Clinical Engineering
Evelyn Chang is a senior clinical engineer at Noah Medical, working on the Galaxy system — a robotic platform built to navigate the outermost edges of the human lung and biopsy nodules early. A Still Human conversation about what manual bronchoscopy loses, how a live fluoroscopy sweep gets reconstructed into 3D mid-procedure, where a clinician still has to confirm what the model sees, and why patient trust before and after may matter more than the procedure itself.
EP 10Ewen Shengyao Huang
Will AI Replace Doctors? Ewen Huang on Causal AI, CRISPR, and What Medicine Can't Automate
Ewen Shengyao Huang is an M.D. candidate at National Taiwan University who has analyzed autoimmune data from 97 million COVID patients and worked on CRISPR gene delivery for inherited blindness at Columbia. A Still Human conversation about using AI as a memory palace rather than a shortcut, what causal AI means for medical research, and the bedside moment no model could have taught him.
EP 08William Norden
William Norden: Building Neural Networks from Scratch in C and What Most AI Engineers Skip
A Still Human conversation with William Norden — Research Engineer at Santa Clara University, neuromorphic computing researcher, and the rare builder who writes neural networks in C from scratch. We get into the intelligence augmentation argument, the high-dimensional tapestry of global problems, and why Russian piano pedagogy and USTA tennis show up in his backpropagation.
EP 06Lilian Krengel
Building Traffic Lights for Space: Lilian Krengel on AI, Orbital Congestion, and Student Founding
A Santa Clara sophomore on building AI traffic lights for space, the Kessler Effect, and what it means when someone copies your startup in a weekend.
EP 04Bailley Georgieva
AI Is the Ultimate People Pleaser: Bailley Georgieva on Hypersonics, Critical Thinking, and What Stays Human at Mach 10
A 21-year-old hypersonic researcher on why AI is the ultimate people pleaser, the cost of complacency, and what stays human at Mach 10.
EP 02Michael Iwashima
Why AI Can’t Reason Over Time: Michael Iwashima on Brain-Computer Interfaces, Biosensors, and Building From Nothing
A bioengineer on why AI still can’t reason over time, what a soccer injury taught him about building from nothing, and where humans still matter most — brain-computer interfaces, biosensors, and accessibility tech.