AI Exchange @ UVA Substack Podcast

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My guests are Dr. Thomas Hartka, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Interim Vice Chair of the Emergency Medicine Research Office, and Dr. R. Andrew Taylor, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Research and Innovation at UVA. “The best results I get from AI are not when I tu…

My guest is Christa Acampora, Buckner W. Clay Professor of Philosophy and Dean of UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. In this episode, Dean Acampora takes on the question: what is higher education for when AI can generate the outputs? We also talk about cultivating human judg…

In this episode of The AI Exchange, we sit down with Dr. Matthew Trowbridge, an Associate Professor at UVA, to explore how he is empowering the next generation of physicians to actively shape the future of healthcare. Through his groundbreaking 10-day Health Design Sprints, medical students with ze…

In this episode of The AI Exchange at UVA, host Ryan is joined by McIntire School of Commerce's Chief Information Officer Bryan Lewis and Associate Professor Reza Mousavi to break down the rapid shift from passive chatbots to autonomous, action-oriented AI agents. Driven by insights from UVA studen…

UVA is transforming research by making advanced AI and computational tools easily accessible to faculty, guided by two world-class on-campus experts: Dr. Josh Baller and Dr. Jackie Huband. Dr. Baller, the Associate Vice President for Research Computing, brings a diverse research background spanning…

Topic: AI is making fake images easier to produce, but the bigger challenge is protecting trust and judgment in a world where seeing is no longer believing. Mona Kasra, Associate Professor of Digital Media Design, brings together visual culture, creative practice, and democratic life to examine how…

Topic: AI is changing how students write, but the bigger challenge is helping them think clearly about when to use it, when to resist it, and what writing is actually for. Piers Gelly and T. Kenny Fountain, faculty members in the University of Virginia’s Department of English, explore how generativ…

Topic: AI helps us understand climate change even as it accelerates it, forcing hard choices about how we use technology. Xi Yang, an Associate Professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences, and Lauren Bridges, an Assistant Professor in UVA’s Department of Media Stu…

Topic: The institutions that balance AI innovation with clear guardrails will shape what comes next. Kelly Doney, UVA’s Vice President and Chief Information Officer, sits at the center of the university’s AI transformation—balancing innovation with privacy, experimentation with fiscal discipline, a…