Summary
Vivek Natarajan is a seasoned AI researcher blending deep biomedical AI expertise with hands-on product-scale deployment. As a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, he leads efforts advancing Biomedical AI, translating cutting-edge research into real-world health insights from Mountain View. He also serves as Faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, shaping interdisciplinary work at the intersection of AI and public health. Previously, he drove multimodal AI at Meta (Facebook AI Research), publishing award-winning work, securing patents, and scaling models to hundreds of millions of users. His diverse career spans academic roles (UT Austin), internships in imaging and computer vision (Qualcomm, Bonn, IIT Madras, NIT Tiruchirappalli), and a venture fellowship at Healthspan Capital, reflecting a rare blend of research leadership, education, and entrepreneurship. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a global perspective on AI's role in health, ethics, and scalable technologies.
12 years of coding experience