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

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

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