How to be an AI Researcher in 2025: Ft. Dr. Vidhi Lalchand (MIT & Cambridge)

Vidhi is currently an Eric and Wendy Scmidt Center Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, she completed her PhD in Probabilistic Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in 2024.
She moved to the UK in 2009 from Chennai, India and is currently based in Cambridge, USA.

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Introduction (00:00:00)
Journey from India to AI Research (00:00:43)
Indian vs. Western Education (00:02:14)
Quitting Quant Finance to AI (00:07:54)
Transition to AI Research and Cambridge University (00:14:05)
How to get Started in AI Research (00:18:01)
AI Research in India (00:27:27)
AI Research with Limited vs Unlimited Funding (00:32:32)
Profit vs. Impact in AI Research (00:37:04)
DeepSeek R1 and AI Development in China (00:40:05)
Open Source vs. Private AI Research (00:48:37)
Motivation in AI Research (00:50:31)
Probabilistic Machine Learning and becoming Alan Turing Scholar (00:54:22)
The Future of AI and Machine Learning (01:02:01)
Advice for Aspiring Quant Finance Professionals (01:07:25)
Challenges and Rewards of Research (01:17:09)

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