Thrissur researcher’s AI tech makes heads turn at Stanford hackathon

KOCHI: Dr Karthik Soman, a Thrissur-origin research scientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has drawn significant attention from both academic and industry circles, after a technology his team presented at a hackathon at Stanford recently showcased cutting-edge AI in an often overlooked area of healthcare.

This innovative project, which leverages generative AI technology similar to widely-known models like ChatGPT, was demonstrated at the Stanford Medicine Rare Disease AI Hackathon held at GitHub headquarters in San Francisco, USA, in June.