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Nabil Laoudji, YesAnd Labs LLC
Discovery Engines – with Nabil
Science
English
Featuring the people and platforms accelerating scientific discovery. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. More at www.discoveryengines.co
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30 March 2026
Building an AI-Driven Autonomous Lab for Life Science R&D | Discovery Engines
Jason Kelly, CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, believes the future of life science R&D is autonomous, starting with the 52-cart lab he and his team have built in Boston. In this episode, I sit down with Jason to explore Ginkgo's autonomous biology lab, its collaboration with OpenAI, the POTUS-backed Genesis Mission, and where autonomous physical systems could take science next.Hosted by Nabil Laoudji....
1 h 39 min
12 November 2025
Building Safe AI - MIT AI Alignment's Riya Tyagi and Gatlen Culp
Riya and Gatlen are board members of MIT AI Alignment, an organization focused on reducing risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Join us as we map the AI safety landscape, define key risks, examine generational perspectives, and explore how we can work together to build a safer future for humanity.Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. 🙏🙌Episode...
1 h 6 min
06 August 2025
AI for Physics Discovery - Jesse Thaler of NSF's IAIFI, MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics
Jesse Thaler is Director of the National Science Foundation's AI for Physics "Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions" (IAIFI), and Professor of Physics at MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics. In this episode we explore how AI is reshaping physics, how physics is reshaping AI, and mind-bending implications of theoretical physics. Join us!"See below for episode links,...
58 min
19 June 2025
Universal Lab Automation - Rick Wierenga of PyLabRobot
Rick Wierenga is creator of PyLabRobot, an open-source, hardware-agnostic Python SDK that's lowering the barriers to lab automation for scientists, startups and hackers.See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji.Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter: www.discoveryengines.co. Thanks for watching 🙏🤙Episode Links: Rick's Twitter Rick's LinkedIn...
1 h 1 min
07 May 2025
Breaking Into AI for Science - Alishba Imran of UC Berkeley BAIR, Arc Institute, CZ Biohub, Voltx
Alishba Imran is a deep learning researcher at UC Berkeley's BAIR AI Lab, a Research Fellow at the Arc Institute, a former Research Intern at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, co-founder of battery tech startup Voltx, and co-author of "AI for Robotics: Toward Embodied and General Intelligence in the Physical World"See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji.Support...
1 h 5 min
23 April 2025
Unleashing Scientific Data - Nicholas Larus-Stone of Sphinx Bio, Bits in Bio
Nicholas Larus-Stone is the Founder & CEO of Sphinx Bio, a startup helping life science labs unlock the full potential of their data to accelerate discovery. He’s also the Founder of Bits in Bio, a global community advancing science through software.See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji.Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter:...
1 h 6 min
02 April 2025
Inside the DOE's Autonomous Lab for Materials Discovery - David Milsted, Lab Systems Engineer
David Milsted is a postdoctoral researcher at the “A-Lab” for autonomous materials discovery, located at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Please note: The views expressed in this video by David are his own and not those of his colleagues.See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji.Support the podcast! Subscribe to our...
1 h 29 min
19 March 2025
Unlocking Cancer Priming Therapies (& Lab Tour) - Transon Nguyen of Eigen Therapeutics
Transon Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eigen Therapeutics, a biotech startup leveraging AI and lab automation to develop priming therapies that make cancer easier to find and eliminate. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. My guest co-host is Jimmy Sastra! This episode is sponsored by Monomer Bio. See below for episode links, chapters, and how to connect with us.Thanks for watching 🙏🤙Episode Links:...
1 h 15 min
05 March 2025
Unlocking Lab Automation - Sudha Gollapudi & Madeline Wolf of The Automated Lab
Sudha Gollapudi & Madeline Wolf (ex Genentech, Ginkgo Bioworks, Calico/Alphabet) are lab automation experts and co-founders of The Automated Lab: an open resource and contract engineering service for building automated labs. See below for episode links and chapters.Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter.Thanks for watching 🙏🤙Episode Links: The Automated Lab Open Source Resource...
1 h 10 min
20 February 2025
Accelerating Cancer Research - Hani Goodarzi of Arc Institute, UCSF, Exai Bio
Hani Goodarzi is Quantitative and Computational Biologist, Core Investigator at the Arc Institute, Associate Professor at UCSF, and co-founder of Exai Bio and Vevo Therapeutics. Episode links and chapters below.Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter. Thanks for watching 🙏🤙Episode Links:Arc InstituteGoodarzi LabExai BioVevo TherapeuticsUCSF Cancer CenterHani's...
1 h 7 min