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Dr. Ganesan Venkatasubramanian

Dr. Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore gave an online invited lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Application in Psychiatry on 6 July via Microsoft Teams. The talk was organized by the Healthcare and AI team (HAI).

Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, born in Tamil Nadu, graduated in medicine in 1998 from Stanley Medical College, completed his MD in Psychiatry in 2001 and Ph.D in Psychiatry (Schizophrenia) in 2013 from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). He worked in University of Sheffield at the SCANLab as a clinical research fellow for training in advanced brain imaging techniques under Sean Spence, who pioneered the brain scan lie detector. On his return to India in 2004, he joined NIMHANS as Assistant Professor of psychiatry and holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry since 2016. At NIMHANS, he heads the Translational Psychiatry Laboratory (TransPsych Lab) as its principal investigator and hosts a number of researchers. He also serves as a consultant at the Schizophrenia Clinic and the Metabolic Clinic in Psychiatry of the institution. He coordinates the WISER Neuromodulation Program at NIMHANS. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to medical sciences in 2018.