Vivek Natarajan

Google Heath AI

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Vivek is a Research Scientist at Google Health AI advancing biomedical AI to help scale world class healthcare to everyone. Vivek is particularly interested in building foundation models for biomedical applications and leads the Google Deepmind moonshot behind Med-PaLM, Google's flagship medical large language model. 

Vivek's research has been published in well-regarded conferences and journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV and JMLR. His research also underpins several regulated medical device products under clinical trials at Google, including the NHS AI award winning breast cancer detection system Mammo Reader and the skin condition classification system DermAssist. Prior to Google, Vivek worked on multimodal AI at Facebook AI Research.