About

Sasank Chilamkurthy is a highly accomplished AI researcher and engineer with a passion for making healthcare accessible and affordable using AI. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Founding Member of Qure.ai, where he has been instrumental in developing AI for healthcare and led the development of qER, a neuro AI tool. He is particularly proud of his publication in The Lancet and has published his work in scientific conferences, journals, Qure's blog, and his own personal blog. Sasank is also a co-author of PyTorch, a deep learning framework used by many organizations around the world, and has made numerous contributions to open-source technologies. Some of his contributions include Keras, SimpleITK, Scikit-Learn libraries, and his own projects on image rectification and feature extraction are popular. Prior to his work at Qure.ai, Sasank worked as a Data Scientist at Housing.com, where he applied NLP on their discussion forum - IREF. He also worked on classification/summarization of the text, including keyphrase extraction and text summarization. Before that, he was a Research Intern at the Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers at Université Laval, where he worked on optimizing optical fiber communication systems from an information theory point of view. Sasank holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has relevant experience of 7.86 years and is highly proficient in AI, Pytorch, Senior Software Engineering, Research Science, Deep Learning, Keras, Scikit, Data Science, NLP, and Web technologies. Sasank is passionate about making a positive impact on healthcare using AI and is highly active on Twitter.