IISc Professor Phaneendra K Yalavarthy leads the TANUH centre to build AI tools for detecting oral and breast cancer. This non-profit group uses smart technology to help doctors find diseases early across India. The professor said, "We build AI tools to detect oral and breast cancer," improving healthcare for many.
Prof Phaneendra K Yalavarthy is the Chief Project Manager of Translational AI for Networked Universal Healthcare (TANUH), an AI Centre of Excellence in Healthcare at IISc, Bengaluru, and a professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS).
TANUH, a non-profit, develops and deploys AI-driven diagnostics and decision-support tools for early detection and management of non-communicable diseases across India.
Phaneendra's research interests include AI for medical imaging, computational methods in medical imaging, medical image processing, and Cyber-Physical Systems.
A postgraduate in Physics from Sri Sathya Sai University, he also has an M.Sc. in engineering from IISc, and a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, USA.