Gary Ross Interview by Brian Gallagher Oct 2025

In this special holiday-weekend episode, Brian interviews Gary Ross, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kanazawa University, where he is Director of English and develops the online ESL program. Gary is a full-stack developer specializing in AI and online learning. He is the creator of J-Talk.com and the superb conference platform Edzilla, which we continue to use as our JALTCALL conference hosting system. We discuss Gary's various Kaken projects, including (1) Speech recognition in medical communication and training using ML with Jeanette Dennison, and (2) the Extensive Reading Artificial Intelligence app in collaboration with Mark Breirley https://gamma.erai.app/dashboard/manuscripts Check out Gary's J-Talk website for academics working in Japan(ese). https://j-talk.com/convert and contact us at the podcast using jaltcall@jaltcall.org Contact Gary Ross at gary@p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp Kaken Researcher Number 10708142