Mathematician Gunnar Carlsson Revolutionizes AI with Topological Approach
By: Venu Gopal
Conference Manager, Nxt AI 2025
04/14/2025
During the AI Revolution, Prof. Gunnar Carlsson and his team at BluelightAI are making waves in Silicon Valley by introducing a topological approach to artificial intelligence. Carlsson, Professor Emeritus at Stanford and a leading mathematician in topological data analysis (TDA), is championing new methods to improve AI transparency, reliability, and performance.
Carlsson, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1976, has built a distinguished career in academia and has shifted his focus to real-world AI applications. He co-founded BluelightAI in 2021, aiming to provide tools that help AI teams better understand and optimize their models. Their flagship product, Cobalt, applies TDA to reveal hidden structural patterns in AI models, diagnose errors, guide repairs, and offer comprehensive evaluation metrics.
"Cobalt leverages topological data analysis to illuminate previously hidden internal structures," the BluelightAI team explains. This approach is seen as crucial, especially as industry leaders and regulators demand greater AI transparency and accountability.
As AI systems become more complex and essential, Carlsson's pioneering work positions him and BluelightAI at the forefront of efforts to make AI models more transparent and trustworthy.