DERI Seminar with Puneet Sharma, Vice President for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovations at Siemens Healthineers

When: Thursday, May 11, 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Zoom

Speaker: Puneet Sharma, VP for AI and Digital Innovations at Siemens Healthineers

Zoom link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81148100921

Title: AI for Healthcare: From Patient Twinning to Precision Therapy

The focus of the talk will be on recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of healthcare – specifically in the areas of medical imaging and image-guided therapy.

It will highlight how AI drives efficiency and productivity, improves patient experience, contributes to outcomes that matter to patients, and increases the quality of care by expanding precision medicine.

Bio:  Puneet Sharma is Vice President for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovations at Siemens Healthineers located at Princeton, New Jersey.  Under his leadership, his team’s scientific work has been extensively validated in clinical studies and translated into multiple medical products that are being used by healthcare professionals for delivering quality care to the patients, with application ranging from cardiovascular diagnosis, therapy planning, therapy guidance, and outcome prediction.

He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering (2008), and MS in General Engineering (2003) from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA. He received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2001.

Puneet holds 99 US patents in the field of healthcare technology and received the New Jersey Inventor Hall of Fame - Innovators Award in 2016. He was selected as the Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2022. He has co-authored over 30 publications in top scientific and clinical journals.