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Ellen Xu

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Fireside Chat #2 | A Message From The Class Of 2022 | Conversation With Aaryan Shah, Kyler Wang, And Sneha Revanur | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Fireside Chat #2 | A Message From The Class Of 2022 | Conversation With Aaryan Shah, Kyler Wang, And Sneha Revanur | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Three graduating high school seniors (who have each received full-rides to college) reveal their regrets, lessons learned, and defining moments that made their last 4 years memorable.Have you ever wondered how differently things would be looking back? Aaryan, Kyler, and Sneha have recently graduated high school and are heading off to their respective colleges next fall on full-ride scholarships. They are the founders of Unitopia, Spark Teen, and Encode Justice, respectively -- all having grown incredible initiatives and built lifelong experiences in their high school years.Join the conversation to hear stories about life moments, the bus ticket hypothesis, and figuring out what you want to do:Obsessing over projectsDefining moments - what mattered looking back? What didn’t?Going out of your bubble and networking meaningfully_______________________GuestsAaryan ShahFounder @ UnitopiaOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaryan-shah-44b19117b/Kyler WangFounder @ Sparkteen [@sparkteen_]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyler-wang/Sneha RevanurFounder @ Encode Justice [@encodejustice]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sneharevanur/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/sneharevanur______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors______________________ResourcesUnitopia: https://www.unitopia.foundation/Sparkteen: https://www.sparkteen.org/Encode Justice: https://encodejustice.org/______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

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Fireside Chat #2 | A Message From The Class Of 2022 | Conversation With Aaryan Shah, Kyler Wang, And Sneha Revanur | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Fireside Chat #2 | A Message From The Class Of 2022 | Conversation With Aaryan Shah, Kyler Wang, And Sneha Revanur | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Three graduating high school seniors (who have each received full-rides to college) reveal their regrets, lessons learned, and defining moments that made their last 4 years memorable.Have you ever wondered how differently things would be looking back? Aaryan, Kyler, and Sneha have recently graduated high school and are heading off to their respective colleges next fall on full-ride scholarships. They are the founders of Unitopia, Spark Teen, and Encode Justice, respectively -- all having grown incredible initiatives and built lifelong experiences in their high school years.Join the conversation to hear stories about life moments, the bus ticket hypothesis, and figuring out what you want to do:Obsessing over projectsDefining moments - what mattered looking back? What didn’t?Going out of your bubble and networking meaningfully_______________________GuestsAaryan ShahFounder @ UnitopiaOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaryan-shah-44b19117b/Kyler WangFounder @ Sparkteen [@sparkteen_]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyler-wang/Sneha RevanurFounder @ Encode Justice [@encodejustice]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sneharevanur/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/sneharevanur______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors______________________ResourcesUnitopia: https://www.unitopia.foundation/Sparkteen: https://www.sparkteen.org/Encode Justice: https://encodejustice.org/______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Fireside Chat #1 | High School Hackers And The Open Source Movement | A Conversation With Aiden Bai, Ishan Goel, And Pranav Teegavarapu | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Fireside Chat #1 | High School Hackers And The Open Source Movement | A Conversation With Aiden Bai, Ishan Goel, And Pranav Teegavarapu | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Join us around the campfire: talking with teens who have coded some incredible (and popular!) open-source projects, with hundreds or thousands of stars on Github ⭐Aiden, Ishan, and Pranav are 3 amazing high schoolers programmers and hackers who built Million, Devzat, and Kobra, respectively. Each has a unique story about how they got started and their journey — but they all share a common theme of hacking, building, and having fun in the process.Listen in to hear stories about using iframes to bypass school Wifi, meeting Jerry from Ben & Jerry’s, GPT-2 on Trump speeches, search engine wars, and more!Why open source?Fun first projectsHacking ft. coolmathgames_______________________GuestsAiden BaiCreator of MillionOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidenbai/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/aidenybaiIshan GoelCreator of DevzatOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/quackduck/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/usrbinishanPranav TeegavarapuCo-creator of KobraOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavnt/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/_pranavnt______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors______________________ResourcesDevzat: https://github.com/quackduck/devzatKobra: https://github.com/kobra-dev/KobraMillion: https://github.com/aidenybai/million______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Building In Public And The Future Of Web3 | A Conversation With Aryan Sharma | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Building In Public And The Future Of Web3 | A Conversation With Aryan Sharma | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Aryan Sharma (@aryxnsharma) on leveraging Web3, building in public, and a page from the book of game theory—the signal behind the layers of complexity and hype.Aryan Sharma is a 17-year-old builder and hacker in Web3. He’s also previously built two small startups in the education and hyper-local jobs space, and posts his thoughts on Twitter to over 10K followers.“Many people have been thinking about Web3 as an isolated market... but the behavior has been existing for years. That’s a fundamental thing about the market. You can’t create a new behavior, you have to ride on waves of behavior in the market. And that form of serving the behavior has been changing.” ~Aryan SharmaIn this episode, we talk:Distribution is key - and how you can leverage itPhilosophies driving Web3What's up with Schelling points, tokenization, decentralization, etc?_______________________GuestAryan SharmaHacker @ Layer3xyz [@layer3xyz]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-sharma-2628aba2/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/aryxnsharma______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors______________________Resources______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Effective Altruism And A Framework To Solve Pressing Problems | A Conversation With Ziyaan Virji | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Effective Altruism And A Framework To Solve Pressing Problems | A Conversation With Ziyaan Virji | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

3 years. $3-8. 100% biodegradable. Ziyaan created For the Menstruator from a school project, following a transformative life experience as a teenager in Kenya. They’ve changed lives for 13,500+ girls.“Over 500 million menstruators don’t have access, in Kenya 65%, in Africa an average of 1 in 10 girls don’t have access. These numbers are huge and no one is talking about this.”After a near-death experience when he was 15, Ziyaan had a wake up call. When he saw a documentary about menstruators not having access to sanitary products, he started off with a local effort with helping 22 girls in Tanzania. This grew into a grassroots movement and organization in For the Menstruator. For his contributions, Ziyaan has been awarded the Princess Diana Award, Global Teen Leader, and more.In this episode, we talk about:Effective altruism - how to actually make a differenceEmpowerment vs solutionThe “Why” and “How” of social impact_______________________GuestZiyaan VirjiCEO at For the MenstruatorOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziyaanvirji/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/virjiziyaan______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors______________________Resources______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Autodidactism, Engineering Luck, And Unique Life Experiences | A Conversation With Okezue Bell | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Autodidactism, Engineering Luck, And Unique Life Experiences | A Conversation With Okezue Bell | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Okezue Bell is a 16-year-old developing biocompatible human and brain-computer interfaces. His first research experience was culturing materials at home; since then, he has jump started his research to work on neuromedical engineering at Harvard MS/Mass Gen Hospital, machine learning at Microsoft and MIT Media Lab, and computational genetics and genomics at Stanford School of Medicine.The key was learning how to engineer opportunities and open doors for unique life experiences.“Engineering luck by putting yourself out there in so many different spaces.”In this episode, we talk:How to open doors to opportunities (even when they explicitly say “No” on their website 😶)Research with top institutionsNeurorobotics and Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)_______________________GuestOkezue BellResearch @ Stanford, Harvard, MIT Media Lab, and MicrosoftOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/okezuebellOn Twitter | https://twitter.com/okezuebell______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors______________________Resources______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Minecraft For Science: Building A Metaverse For K12 Science Education | A Conversation With Aditya Vishwanath | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Minecraft For Science: Building A Metaverse For K12 Science Education | A Conversation With Aditya Vishwanath | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

If only learning science was like playing Minecraft or being inside The Magic School Bus… 🤔 This may soon be a reality — rethinking education from first-principles using VR and the metaverse.Aditya Vishwanath is the founder and CEO of Inspirit, an immersive virtual reality education company. He is also currently pursuing a PhD at the Stanford Graduate School of Education as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.“I think the metaverse is an opportunity to rethink from first principles how we can build a safe and democratized space of creativity.”In this episode, we talk:Virtual reality / Human-computer interactionsScience educationFuture of metaverse_______________________GuestAditya VishwanathOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityavishwanath/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/Adi_Vish______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesInspirit VR: https://inspiritvr.com/______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Teaching 60k Students To Unlock Their Creativity Using Coding | A Conversation With Tyler Menezes | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Teaching 60k Students To Unlock Their Creativity Using Coding | A Conversation With Tyler Menezes | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

“There’s a place in tech for everyone.” Tyler Menezes, Executive Director of CodeDay, is changing the narrative of CS education -- simply by getting students excited to learn and create.Tyler describes his spark with building cool things using tech after stumbling across a programming book for slot machines. Since then, Tyler has been helping thousands of other students find that moment -- “seeing your ideas come to life”.After dropping out of university to found a tech startup in Silicon Valley and going through the startup accelerator Y Combinator, Tyler joined CodeDay, a nonprofit providing opportunities for under-served students to explore a future in tech. They have helped nearly 60,000 students in 50 cities around the world to create their own projects in tech.In this episode, we talk:Tech educationLearning on one’s own termsCreative thinking + Tyler’s own favorite projects_______________________GuestTyler MenezesOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermenezes/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/tylermenezes______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesCodeDay Website: https://www.codeday.org/______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Youngest Research Assistant At India’s Department Of Defense To Founding A Medtech Startup | A Conversation With Nikin Tharan | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Youngest Research Assistant At India’s Department Of Defense To Founding A Medtech Startup | A Conversation With Nikin Tharan | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Nikin discovered his love for electronics at 9, and became the youngest research assistant at India’s DoD. He discusses his journey in accelerated learning pathways and founding a medtech startup.“Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help or to ask for opportunities. Very few opportunities land in your lap… you have to hustle and create the opportunity.”From piloting projects on anti-train collision and smart homes starting from when he was 9 to attending Northeastern on a full ride scholarship when he was 16, Nikin Tharan describes how he paved his journey through curiosity and a passion for reading/learning.In this episode, we talk:Accelerated learningEntrepreneurshipSocial impactFor anyone interested in generating social impact, this podcast episode provides actionable insights, lessons, and mindsets for future founders and technologists._______________________GuestNikin TharanOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntharan/______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________Resources ______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

A Mirror On Society: Debiasing Artificial Intelligence (AI) And The Importance Of AI Ethics | A Conversation with Catherine Yeo | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

A Mirror On Society: Debiasing Artificial Intelligence (AI) And The Importance Of AI Ethics | A Conversation with Catherine Yeo | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Harvard CS and English undergraduate student, Catherine Yeo, talks about her journey founding an AI ethics organization with tens of thousands of article views and discovering her interests through her love of writing.Besides founding her organization Fair Bytes, Catherine is also lead venture partner at Contrary Capital and has previously worked at Disney’s StudioLab, Dover, IBM Research, and Apple in AI research and software engineering roles.“I want to help others really look at AI from both technical and ethical perspectives… and also consider who they are also designing this algorithm for and how they can maximize the help for them.” - CatherineIn this episode, we talk:AI ethicsComputer science + EnglishEducation and impactFor anyone interested in developing tech solutions to impactful problems, this podcast episode provides insight into important implications and how we can work together as a society to de-bias our algorithms._______________________GuestCatherine YeoOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-yeo/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/catherinehyeo______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesFairbytes: https://fairbytes.org______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Welcome To The Metaverse: Virtual Reality For Immersive Education | A Conversation With Nicolas Barone | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Welcome To The Metaverse: Virtual Reality For Immersive Education | A Conversation With Nicolas Barone | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Nicolas is creating the next reality for online learning using VR - the intersection of accessible education and movement towards the metaverse.After realizing the difficulties and lack of immersiveness of online learning, Nicolas took a gap year from his studies at Cornell as an Applied Mathematics major to found a VR company, combining technology with his passion for educational accessibility. They have now taught over 10,000 students and are currently the 3rd largest VR events producer.But education isn’t the only application for VR. 3D interactions in a virtual setting form the foundations of the “metaverse”.“A new reality but a digital life, just like you would do things in real life in a new location and meet people, but in a digital sense and represented as a 3D avatar.”Nicolas discusses the applications of VR to education, trends of online and in-person education, and the rise of the metaverse._______________________GuestNicolas BaroneOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-barone______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________Resources ______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

AI Or Human? Exploring GPT-3 Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, And Creativity | A Conversation With Andrew Lohn And Micah Musser | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

AI Or Human? Exploring GPT-3 Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, And Creativity | A Conversation With Andrew Lohn And Micah Musser | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

In this special Black Hat episode, Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser explain “Disinformation At Scale: Using GPT-3 Maliciously for Information Operations” - the double-edged sword of large language models.The Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, or GPT-3, is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text, created by OpenAI. In other words: “Autocomplete on steroids.” It is currently the largest and most powerful natural language model in the world, and can write realistic text from almost any genre.In this episode, I discuss with guests Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser:How can GPT-3 be used to amplify disinformation?What are the implications GPT-3 has for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? Can GPT-3 be considered “creative”?What are the future trends for this technology, cybersecurity, and society?And… Did I use any GPT technology to write parts of this show notes? I guess we’ll never know for certain ;)_______________________GuestsAndrew LohnOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/anlohn/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/andrewjlohnMicah MusserOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-musser-a485b5121/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/mrmusser______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesGeorgetown CSET Report: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/truth-lies-and-automation/______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Don’t Trust Everything You See: Deepfake Social Engineering And Cognitive Psychology | A Conversation With Dr. Matthew Canham | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Don’t Trust Everything You See: Deepfake Social Engineering And Cognitive Psychology | A Conversation With Dr. Matthew Canham | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

What are the dangers of deep fakes? How is it related to cyber and cognitive psychology? Dr. Canham explains Deepfake Social Engineering: Creating a Framework for Synthetic Media Social Engineering.Deepfakes (a combination of “deep learning” and “fake”) leverages Artificial Intelligence to repurpose existing media to appear to be someone else. It’s the technology responsible for numerous applications in animation, entertainment, and... meme videos of Tom Cruise. But deep fakes have also been maliciously used for phishing campaigns, virtual kidnappings, and disinformation newscasts._______________________GuestDr. Matthew CanhamOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-c-971855100/______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesBlack Hat Presentation Slides: https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-Deepfake-Social-Engineering-Creating-A-Framework-For-Synthetic-Media-Social-Engineering.pdf______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

High School Mathematics Research To Harvard Business School Associate Professor & Conundrums Author | A Conversation With Scott Kominers | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

High School Mathematics Research To Harvard Business School Associate Professor & Conundrums Author | A Conversation With Scott Kominers | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

Scott Kominers is the Associate Professor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. His love for math started with a research project on quadratic form representation theory.“It’s like it’s always been there; you just didn’t know how to express it.”Through his high school research project, Kominers got into the world of mathematics, which later led him to discover his deep interest in economics. Now, he teaches courses on market design to students at Harvard University, investigates the optimization of economic systems to vaccine allocation and other pressing problems, and writes a column of original puzzling conundrums.In this episode, we’re talking about the fascinating world of math, economics, scientific research… and how solving puzzles and conundrums draws a fun parallel to delving into complex topics._______________________GuestScott KominersOn Twitter | https://twitter.com/skominersOn LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-kominers/______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesKominers' Conundrums: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/storythreads/2021-03-21/kominers-s-conundrums-a-treasure-trove-of-puzzles______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Spinal Reconstructions, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, And… Just Dance? Winning The International Science And Engineering Fair | A Conversation With Krithik Ramesh | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

Spinal Reconstructions, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, And… Just Dance? Winning The International Science And Engineering Fair | A Conversation With Krithik Ramesh | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

Inspiration for a project can come from anywhere. For Krithik, a game of Just Dance and love for Grey’s Anatomy emerged into a project which won the top award at ISEF 2019 out of millions worldwide.In this episode, Krithik shares his research on developing a live-time navigation system for spinal reconstruction surgery using AR and ML, the future of AI and mitigating algorithmic bias, and advice for high schoolers in conducting research and science fairs._______________________GuestKrithik RameshOn Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/propulsionnerd______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________ResourcesISEF: https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/Krithik Ramesh ISEF Abstract: https://abstracts.societyforscience.org/Home/FullAbstract?ProjectId=17147______________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Signals From The Villages | DEF CON 29 — Cryptocurrency And Cybersecurity | A Conversation With Justin Ehrenhofer And Michael Schloh Von Bennewitz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Signals From The Villages | DEF CON 29 — Cryptocurrency And Cybersecurity | A Conversation With Justin Ehrenhofer And Michael Schloh Von Bennewitz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

The Cryptocurrency Village at DEF CON 29 will explore blockchain technologies, the regulatory landscape, and the general cryptocurrency ecosystem — the intersection of cryptocurrency and cybersecurity.In this episode, I connect with two organizers of the Cryptocurrency Village for a preview of what’s to come at DEF CON 29 and the crypto landscape. We discuss security and privacy, the biggest problems faced by crypto today, and future potential for innovation._______________________GuestsJustin EhrenhoferOn Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/JEhrenhoferOn LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinehrenhoferMichael Schloh Von BennewitzOn Social Media 🤔______________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________This Episode’s SponsorsImperva: https://itspm.ag/imperva277117988ReversingLabs: https://itspm.ag/reversinglabs-v57b______________________ResourcesCryptocurrency Village Website: https://cryptocurrencyvillage.net/On Twitter: https://twitter.com/DEFCONCCVillage______________________Listen to all of our conversations about Catching The Signal from DEF CON 29 here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/defcon29Catch more On Location conversations on ITSPmagazine here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/on-locationFor more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________Want to sponsor this coverage? Visit: https://itspm.ag/dc29spAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

A 6-Figure Acquisition At Age 16: Building And Exiting Two EdTech Startups As A High School Student | A Conversation With Calix Huang | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

A 6-Figure Acquisition At Age 16: Building And Exiting Two EdTech Startups As A High School Student | A Conversation With Calix Huang | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

16-year-old startup engineer, Calix Huang, has sold 2 EdTech companies, scaled to 20k users in 6 months, and underwent a 6-figure acquisition. Here’s his story on how he did it.From self-learning Python and web development online to getting his first software engineering internship at 14, Calix talks about his approach for rapidly learning new skills and how going out of your comfort zone can be a faster, and more fun, way of building new things. Learning is not a linear journey - you’ll hear about the hidden challenges behind growth, getting your product in front of people, and the unconventional method of community-based user acquisition.This is the authentic and down-to-earth story of how Calix built, scaled, and sold his startup Hours (among others), and valuable lessons for anyone wishing to learn or build something new.______________________________GuestCalix HuangOn Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/calix-huang/On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/calixo888______________________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________________ResourcesHours: https://hours.zone/______________________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

To Meet Interesting People, You Have To Work On Interesting Things: Building The Largest Community Of 13k+ Teenage Hackers And Coders | A Conversation With Zach Latta | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

To Meet Interesting People, You Have To Work On Interesting Things: Building The Largest Community Of 13k+ Teenage Hackers And Coders | A Conversation With Zach Latta | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

What do Elon Musk, dinosaur-shaped Arduinos, and the largest network of HS coders have in common? Zach Latta brings us through his journey dropping out and moving to SF at 16 to founding Hack Club.“To Meet Interesting People, You Have to Work on Interesting Things.”At age 7, Zach took apart his parents computer, then created top chart games and apps used by 5 million people at 16 after moving away alone to SF. In doing the unconventional, Zach set himself on a path to doing interesting things - and meeting and working with interesting people, including Elon Musk and Tom Preston-Werner.In this episode, you’ll hear about how to get in rooms with interesting people, why you need to prioritize actually helping people, and getting backed/raising money to support your causes.______________________________GuestZach LattaOn Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlattaOn Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/zachlattaGuest Co-HostAadit GuptaOn Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/aaditgupta21______________________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________________ResourcesHack Club: https://hackclub.com/______________________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

How Chaos Engineering Ensures Seamless Delivery For Over 200 Million Netflix Subscribers | A Conversation With Amy Smidutz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

How Chaos Engineering Ensures Seamless Delivery For Over 200 Million Netflix Subscribers | A Conversation With Amy Smidutz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu

Engineering, automation, and… chaos monkeys? 🤔🙊Amy Smidutz, Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix, explains how breaking things during production helps increase resilience to failure.In this episode, you’ll learn how large companies like Netflix deliver content seamlessly to hundreds of millions of subscribers. Spoiler alert: it’s not what you might expect.Counterintuitively, chaos experimentation and breaking things during production can actually help reduce fail-overs for millions and improve resiliency to outages. You’ll hear about the importance of reducing blast radius, why regional failures can prevent large outages, and how automating away certain tasks reduces human error.______________________________GuestAmy SmidutzOn Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-smidutz-a0310526On Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/amysmidutz______________________________HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu______________________________This Episode’s Sponsors ______________________________For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcast______________________________Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships______________________________Want more? Catch this week’s episode and previous ones on the DeltaX newsletter: https://newsletter.deltaxpod.com/

Building Resilience — From Earth To The Depths Of Outer Space | A Conversation With Manuel Retana | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

Building Resilience — From Earth To The Depths Of Outer Space | A Conversation With Manuel Retana | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

This is a journey into the infinite possibilities of human ingenuity and space exploration. The future of human and robotics collaboration.GuestManuel RetanaOn Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-retana/HostEllen XuOn ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xuThis Episode’s SponsorsKey Resources Security 👉 https://itspm.ag/keyresources-2876Reversing Labs 👉 https://itspm.ag/reversinglabs-v57bListen to all of our conversations about Resilience from RSA Conference 2021 here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsac-2021Catch more On Location conversations on ITSPmagazine here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/on-locationFor more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcastAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships

Building the Most Popular COVID-19 Tracking Site at 16 Years Old | A Conversation with Avi Schiffmann | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

Building the Most Popular COVID-19 Tracking Site at 16 Years Old | A Conversation with Avi Schiffmann | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu

At 16 years old, Avi Schiffmann built the very first and most popular website for COVID-19 with 30 million daily visitors at its peak. Listen along to his incredible backstory and what's coming next.Avi created nCoV2019.live when the first signs of COVID-19 hit - little did he know it would quickly become one of the most popular COVID-19 tracking sites with 30 million+ daily visitors at its peak, and help inform the public and epidemiologists in monitoring and curbing the spread of the pandemic.Since then, Avi has been recognized by Webby Awards as the 2020 Person of the Year presented by Dr. Fauci, created numerous other websites on causes ranging from protests to voting information, and recently has been accepted into Harvard University!His message? “You can learn anything online."Listen along to this Delta X podcast episode to hear about his journey and vision for the future (spoiler alert: includes cybernetics, vertical farming, reading/writing to the mind, and more!)GuestAvi Schiffmann, Creator @ nCoV2019.live (@AviSchiffmann on Twitter)HostEllen XuThis Episode’s SponsorsIf you’d like to sponsor this or any other podcast episode on ITSPmagazine, you can learn more here: https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorshipsResourcesCOVID-19 Tracker: https://ncov2019.live/For more podcast stories from Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu: https://itspmagazine.com/delta-x-podcastFor more content from DeltaX, check out the Substack newsletter: https://deltax.substack.com/Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships