Topic
Building AI
7 pieces — essays, talks, and recorded conversations gathered under one subject.
ESSAY · 13 June 2026
A Sevak, Not a Guru: rebuilding the chain of transmission with AI
For three thousand years India's classical knowledge survived by being spoken, guru to shishya. That chain is thinning. AI can help rebuild it – but only if it is built to serve the texts, not to speak over them.
ESSAY · 13 June 2026
Four Letters, Zero Data: the case for quantifying the pupillary light reflex
In 2019 I wrote that the doctor's bedside instruments belong in a museum. Pupilux is one of those predictions, built – and the case for measuring a reflex that has been judged by eye for over a century.
ESSAY · 13 June 2026
One-on-One, at Scale: what building far from medicine taught me about carrying a master's judgment
I build instruments for clinicians. CineCoach took me to the opposite end of the spectrum (a Paris cinematographer's craft), and the hardest part of the build was teaching an eager AI to withhold, the way a real teacher does.
VIDEO · 17 February 2026
Transforming Healthcare with AI Innovations — India AI Impact Summit
A session at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on AI-driven healthcare advances and their real-world deployment in emerging markets.
VIDEO · 22 September 2024
The technology behind AI for clinicians
The under-the-hood of the AI systems clinicians are starting to work alongside.
VIDEO · 13 December 2023
AI and biomedicine — Cambridge Alumni Symposium
Cambridge Alumni Symposium talk on the intersection of AI and biomedicine.
VIDEO · 10 October 2019
BuddhiMed at Cypher 2019 — merging medicine with computer science
Career overview and the mission behind BuddhiMed — merging medicine with computer science.
