The most important lesson that one can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for oneself to transmute it into joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST TO KNOW WHY GEETHA IS AN IMPRESSIVE EMPRESS
DR. GEETHA MANJUNATH
PROFILE
Dr. Geetha Manjunath is the Founder, CEO and CTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, and has led the company to develop a breakthrough artificial-intelligence-based test for detecting early stage breast cancer in a non-invasive radiation-free manner. Geetha is a Computer Scientist with a PhD from Indian Institute of Science and management education from Kellogg’s Chicago. She has over 25 years of experience in IT innovation and has proposed and led multiple AI projects at Xerox Research and Hewlett Packard Labs. Before starting NIRAMAI, Geetha was the Lab Director for Data Analytics Research at Xerox.
Geetha has received many international and national recognition for her innovations and entrepreneurial work, including CSI Gold Medal, BIRAC WinER Award 2018 and is also on the Forbes List of Top 20 Self-Made Women 2020. She was awarded the Accenture Vahini Innovator of the Year Award from Economic Times and Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 by BioSpectrum India. Geetha is also a coauthor of book “Moving to the Cloud” and an inventor of 20 US patents and more pending grant.
Specialties: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurship, HealthTech, DeepTech, Impact
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS RECEIVED
- Winner of the 2010 Grand Challenges for Technologists Issued by MIT Technology Review · Jan 2011
- NASCCOM IT Innovator 2009 award for SiteOnMobile
- Key Researcher Award for creating F90 Parallel Compiler Product – Associated with CDAC
You can follow Geetha on