Meet Our Team

Dr. Suvrankar Datta

Lead PI & Founder

Dr. Hakikat Bir Singh Bhatti

Lead, Clinical Evals

Physician, Program Director at XpertDox, and Clinical AI Researcher at CRASH Lab (KCDH-A). Education: MBBS, MS (Research) candidate at IIT Delhi, and dual PG Diplomas in CS/AI & Health Data Science from IIIT-Delhi. Expertise: 6+ years spanning health informatics, frontier multimodal AI benchmarking (RadLE), and climate-health modeling.

Dr. Sarah Khan

Lead, Medical Benchmarks

Physician-scientist drawn to interdisciplinary research where medicine intersects with social science, technology, policy, and ethics. Strong advocate of responsible AI deployment in healthcare and the impact of climate change on health.

Dr. Lakshmi Vennela Chowdary Kaza

Lead, Clinical Research

MBBS (Paediatrics Gold Medalist), Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. PGDip in Data Science and AI from IIT Bombay. Certification in Genetics and Genomics from Stanford Medicine.

Dr. Divya Buchireddygari

Lead, Radiology Evals

Dr. Shreyas Reddy

Research Lead, Radiology

MBBS, MD Radiology. Radiologist passionate about neuroradiology and AI, with a strong foundation in advanced neuroimaging and a goal of transforming imaging into reliable biomarkers for precision medicine.

Dr. Karanjot Chhatwal

Research Lead

Resident doctor at King's College Hospital and AI & Digital Health Research Fellow at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Graduated from Imperial College London's medical school with a First Class Honours BSc in Cardiovascular Sciences. Co-Founder of MedNex, a free mentorship and research platform supporting over 7,000 students and doctors across 75+ countries.

Dr. Prerna Priyadarshini

Research Lead, Radiology

Dr. Antarjot Kaur Rekhi

Research Lead, Radiology

Siddharth Valecha

Lead, Product and Brand

A passionate healthcare advocate who bridges the gap between creative vision and execution to deliver top-tier user experiences. Leading with a blend of design thinking and product strategy, he aims to transform the industry by building human-centered digital solutions that empower healthcare professionals.

Ms. Swarna Radhakrishnan

Chief of Staff

A Public health professional working at the intersection of healthcare, digital health, and responsible AI. At Ashoka University's Koita Centre for Digital Health, she supports strategic partnerships, research operations, and large-scale health innovation initiatives.

Mr. Siddharth Reddy Anthireddy

Member of Technical Staff

Software Engineer focused on building scalable AI systems, backend platforms, and privacy-preserving digital products across healthcare, automation, and emerging technology domains.

Rakesh Pallala

Member of Technical Staff

Full-Stack and AI Engineer at CRASH Lab, specializing in building robust web applications and engineering end-to-end AI pipelines for clinical medical research. Holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Akash Ghosh

Member of Technical Staff

Third year PhD scholar at IIT Patna and alumnus of IIT Ropar and NIT Agartala. Research areas: NLP, Multimodal AI, AI Safety, and Reasoning in Science and Healthcare. Publications at ICML, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and IJCAI.

Himanshu

Member of Technical Staff

Research Associate at the Trivedi School of Biosciences. Work explores computational topology and AI to understand complex biological and biomedical systems, with interests in AI interpretability and developing mathematical tools to understand machine learning models.

Sarath Sasi

Member of Technical Staff

Research assistant at Ashoka University. Working on AI in healthcare, Synthetic chest X-ray benchmarking, and Vision language models for clinical applications.

Ms. Haritha R

Member of Technical Staff

Junior Research Fellow at Ashoka University's Koita Centre for Digital Health, conducting research on healthcare AI, radiology report generation, prompt optimization, NLP, and evaluation of large language models for clinical applications.

Ms. Gadha Lakshmi

Member of Technical Staff

Junior Research Fellow at Ashoka University's Koita Centre for Digital Health, conducting research in medical computer vision and healthcare AI.

Rishita Yadav

Intern - Founder's Office

Works in research management and operations, supporting end-to-end coordination across funded research projects spanning grant management, compliance tracking, cross-institutional planning, and stakeholder communication.

Snigdhaa Rajvanshi

Research Assistant

Masters student in Psychology, working on identifying and clarifying cognitive errors and biases in LLM diagnostic reasoning.

Dr. Nishtha Mahajan

Research Lead, Radiology