Dr. Padmanabhan Anandan is a scientist in the domain of Artificial Intelligence with over 40 years of experience in basic and applied research in AI as well as in leading teams of AI scientists and building multiple applied research institutions. He is the ex-CEO of Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an independent not-for-profit Research institute focused on developing artificial intelligence based applications for social good. He was formerly vice president for research at Adobe Systems and prior to that a distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research. He was the managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he founded in January 2005 in Bangalore. He joined Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington in 1997, where he founded and built the Interactive Visual Media group. He was also previously a professor of Computer Science at Yale University and the head of the video information processing group at Sarnoff Corporation. He is currently serving as free-lance consultant and providing advice to several organizations working in AI for Social Good, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Global Health Labs (GH+ labs), ARTPARK (Bangalore, India), FINDDX and IPRD Solutions, NY.

Dr. Charles Delahunt is a senior research engineer on the ML team at Global Health Labs. He has over 10 years’ experience applying ML to global health challenges including malaria and neglected tropical disease diagnosis, lung ultrasound, pregnancy risk stratification, and vitamin A deficiency detection via pupillary response. He has also held a postdoc researching ML methods at University of Washington's applied math department. He serves on the scientific committee of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; has advised the WHO on digital microscopy for malaria; has organized multiple conference workshops on ML for global health, and serves on the board of RISE-MICCAI, which works to increase participation of LMIC-based researchers in the ML community.

About Global Health Labs, Inc. GH Labs innovates to reduce health disparities, especially in low- and middle-income countries. As a nonprofit corporation fully funded by Gates Ventures (the private office of Bill Gates), we partner with the Gates Foundation and other cross-sector leaders to develop health technology solutions for the people who need them most.