Prof. Faez Ahmed, Head of MIT’s CAD & AI Lab (DeCoDE), joins Dr. Maor Farid to unpack how AI is reshaping the way engineers design, simulate, and bring products to market.

Faez shares how his research tackles one of the biggest challenges in engineering today: reducing the time from concept to production, which has remained largely unchanged for decades.

The conversation explores how AI can bridge fragmented engineering workflows across CAD, CAE, and simulation, and how new models are enabling everything from generating CAD directly from images to autonomously operating design software.

Faez also dives into the importance of data, infrastructure, and trust, and how AI systems—from CAD co-pilots to agent-based design tools—are beginning to expand the boundaries of what engineers can create.