Amelia's Weekly Fish Fry

This week I’m thrilled to welcome back one of my absolute favorite guests: Dianne Kibbey, Senior Director of Community Strategy and Hackster.io at Avnet! Dianne and I explore why human developer communities are more critical today than ever before. We chat about how engineers can harness community-driven insights to tackle hardware design problems, draw lessons from real-world failures, and embrace cutting-edge technologies. We also dive into the latest developer initiatives and contests across the Hackster ecosystem, spanning from Edge AI design challenges to international hardware hackathons.

My podcast guest this week is Travis Bone from TASKING. Travis and I chat about their recent big win at the AWS "Accelerating the V-Cycle with Agentic AI" hackathon alongside partners Infineon and DLR. We explore how their governed, agentic AI workflow connects trusted hardware intelligence directly into the V-cycle, from automating compliance, test generation, and verification while keeping human engineers firmly in control.

This week we’re diving deep into the world of atomic-scale manufacturing and quantum engineering with Dr. Ludwik Kranz, Head of Quantum Engineering at Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC). Ludwik and I chat about how SQC is engineering quantum processors at the atomic scale, how to measure quantum computing progress beyond qubit count, and what applications could bring quantum computing closer to practical reality. 

In this week’s podcast, we’re looking at the future of wireless engineering, and how agentic AI, digital twins, and 6G networks are coming together to change how we design, simulate, and operate connected systems. My guest week is Houman Zarrinkoub, Principal Product Manager of Wireless Communications at MathWorks. Houman and I explore why RF digital twins are moving beyond offline simulations and into live control loops, how engineering tools can keep errors and outdated data from cascading across connected systems, and how specialized AI “skills” can help keep autonomous agents within defined boundaries.

My guest this week is Tom Hazlett from sensiBel. Tom and I explore how sensiBel’s optical MEMS technology is reimagining what’s possible in acoustic performance. Tom and I will dive into how sensiBel’s optical MEMS architecture overcomes the classical constraints of legacy capacitive sensors, real-world applications where being able to detect those subtle sounds and vibrations could make a big difference and we’ll also examine the interesting intersection of acoustic sensing and AI that could open up some pretty interesting possibilities for machine perception.

In this week’s podcast, we're diving deep into the frontier of artificial intelligence and exploring how mimicking the human brain could hold the key to ultra-low-power, highly efficient computing at the edge. My guest is Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip. Sean and I explore their groundbreaking Akida neuromorphic processor and how BrainChip's event-based approach processes data only when meaningful changes occur—shifting away from traditional, power-hungry accelerators and paving the way for the future of always-on smart technology. 

To celebrate the 700th episode of Amelia’s Weekly Fish Fry, we’re diving big into the world of microscopic tech! Tune in to discover light-powered microbots capable of hunting down bacteria, innovative memristors combining synthetic DNA and semiconductor technology for ultra-low-power computing, and breakthrough nanolasers that promise to halve energy consumption in next-generation processors. 

My podcast guest this week is VectorWave CTO and Founder, Dr. Ron Davis. Ron and I discuss the details of VectorWave’s neuromorphic analog compute platform, how it differs from traditional digital processing, and what it really means to build AI-native connectivity rather than simply adding AI features onto existing wireless systems. We also talk about the challenge of getting more bandwidth out of an increasingly crowded spectrum while consuming less power, and look ahead to where this technology could have the biggest impact. 

My podcast guest this week is a powerhouse of the semiconductor industry: Ramune Nagisetty. Ramune, best known for developing the chiplet-based system-in-package architecture concept, joins me this week to discuss her foundational work on chiplet-based system-in-package architectures, the current reality of chiplet interoperability, and the role of artificial intelligence in semiconductor design and manufacturing. We also chat about her leadership at PDF Solutions and her music career in my hometown of Portland, Oregon.

My podcast guest this week Alex Ksendzovsky, co-founder of The Biological Computing Co. Alex and his team are doing something that sounds straight out of science fiction: they’re extracting computational principles from living neurons and translating them into software that runs on standard silicon. Alex and I chat about The Biological Computing Co. is bridging the gap between biological tissue and GPU-accelerated algorithms, explore how this approach is making foundational models faster and more efficient and where Alex sees this ground breaking technology headed in the future.