by Wadhwani, Sunil, ROMESH WADHWANIThe brothers have founded WISH Wadhwani Initiative for Sus tainable Healthcare, WIAI Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence WISH runs over 1000 technologyenabled health clinics that have served 30 million people with free healthcare in some of the most impoverished areas in India Sunil cofounded Igate a 30000 strong IT services company before it was sold in 2015 for45 billion He is also the founder, lead investor of W Health Ventures, 2070 Health two entities focused on driving innovation, AI adoption in healthcare Romesh Wadhwani is the chairman of SAIGroup a fastgrowing operating group of leading AI companies that deliver a new generation of advanced AI solutions to transform the enterprise He was also the founder CEO of Symphony Technology a private equity firm building software, technologyenabled services companies, Aspect Development a businesstobusiness software company he sold for93 billion in 2000NEAL KHOSLACofounded Curai Health which provides AI assisted primary care through comprehensive telemedicine solutions The venture leverages AIassisted technology, services to execute a scalable digitallyenabled care strategy A Stanford alumnus Khosla was a software engineering intern with Google, was a member of the Dorm Room Fund Bay Area investment teamTUSHITA GUPTAGupta is cofounder CTO of Refiberd which is building an intelligent sorting for textiletotextile recycling It uses AI, a patentpending green chemical recycling process to repurpose used textiles into new thread The Carnegie Mellon alumnus, her cofounder Sarika Bajaj have developed technology that combines a hyperspectral imaging system with AI to accurately detect fibre composition, contaminant presence in textile wastePUSHMEET KOHLIKohli is VP of research at Google DeepMind Before joining DeepMind Pushmeet was the director of research at the Cognition group at Microsoft During his 10 years at Microsoft Pushmeet worked in Microsoft labs in Seattle Cambridge, Bengaluru Time magazine said Kohli grew up in Dehradun, moved to the UK to study Kohlis research interests include intelligent systems, computational sciencesKALIKA BALIBali is a principal researcher in Microsoft Research India working in the areas of machine learning natural language systems, applications as well as technology for emerging markets Her research interests lie in speech, language technology especially in the use of linguistic models for building technology that offers a more natural humancomputer as well as computermediated interactions She is working on Project Mlange which is trying to understand process, generate codemixed language data for both text, NARAYANAN, speechARVIND, SAYASH KAPOORNarayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University, the director of the Centre for Information Technology Policy He studies societal impact of digital technologies especially AI He is writing a book about AI Snake Oil AI that does not, cannot work with his colleague Sayash Kapoor Kapoor is a computer science PhD candidate at Princeton Universitys Center for Information Technology Policy His research focuses on the societal impact of AI I have previously worked on AI in the industry, academia at Facebook Columbia University, EPFL SwitzerlandSNEHA REVANURSneha an 18yearold Indian American is the founder, president of Encode Justice an international youthled organisation working to advance racial social, economic justice in the age of AI She has mobilised hundreds of students across 30 US states, 20 countries to fight for an equitable technological future
Published in The Times of India (Online) (05.10.2023)