Isha Salian
Isha Salian writes on deep learning, science and healthcare, among other topics, as part of NVIDIA's corporate communications team. She first joined the company as an intern in summer 2015. Isha has a journalism MA, as well as undergraduate degrees in communication and English, from Stanford. Outside of work she enjoys Indian classical dance, reading, Netflix, and discovering new places to eat.
AI in the Big Easy: NVIDIA Research Lets Content Creators Improvise With 3D Objects
Jazz is all about improvisation — and NVIDIA is paying tribute to the genre with AI research that could one day enable graphics creators to improvise with 3D objects created… Read article >
The Closer: Machine Learning Helps Banks, Buyers Finalize Real Estate Transactions
The home-buying process can feel like an obstacle course — finding the perfect place, putting together an offer and, the biggest hurdle of all, securing a mortgage. San Francisco-based real-estate… Read article >
Urban Jungle: AI-Generated Endangered Species Mix With Times Square’s Nightlife
Bengal tigers, red pandas and mountain gorillas are among the world’s most familiar endangered species, but tens of thousands of others — like the Karpathos frog, the Perote deer mouse… Read article >
Setting AIs on SIGGRAPH: Top Academic Researchers Collaborate With NVIDIA to Tackle Graphics’ Greatest Challenges
NVIDIA’s latest academic collaborations in graphics research have produced a reinforcement learning model that smoothly simulates athletic moves, ultra-thin holographic glasses for virtual reality, and a real-time rendering technique for… Read article >
By Land, Sea and Space: How 5 Startups Are Using AI to Help Save the Planet
Different parts of the globe are experiencing distinct climate challenges — severe drought, dangerous flooding, reduced biodiversity or dense air pollution. The challenges are so great that no country can… Read article >
Rock On: Scientists Use AI to Improve Sequestering Carbon Underground
A team of scientists has created a new AI-based tool to help lock up greenhouse gases like CO2 in porous rock formations faster and more precisely than ever before. Carbon… Read article >
NVIDIA Research Turns 2D Photos Into 3D Scenes in the Blink of an AI
When the first instant photo was taken 75 years ago with a Polaroid camera, it was groundbreaking to rapidly capture the 3D world in a realistic 2D image. Today, AI… Read article >
What Is GauGAN? How AI Turns Your Words and Pictures Into Stunning Art
GauGAN, an AI demo for photorealistic image generation, allows anyone to create stunning landscapes using generative adversarial networks. Named after post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, it was created by NVIDIA Research… Read article >
Guinness World Record Awarded for Fastest DNA Sequencing — Just 5 Hours
Guinness World Records this week presented a Stanford University-led research team with the first record for fastest DNA sequencing technique — a benchmark set using a workflow sped up by… Read article >