Alan Karthikesalingam

Alan Karthikesalingam

Alan is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind working on biomedical AI. He cofounded and leads AMIE and AI co-scientist; and previously Med-PaLM, Med-PaLM-2 and Med-PaLM-Multimodal. His prior work explored supervised and self-supervised AI in radiology, ophthalmology, dermatology and electronic health records, resulting in papers published in Nature and Nature Medicine. He is an honorary Lecturer in Vascular Surgery at Imperial College in London. He completed his MA in Neuroscience and Medical Degree (MBBChir) at the University of Cambridge before specialist training in surgery in the London Deanery, where he completed his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), PhD in Vascular Surgery and was appointed as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer. Prior to joining Google DeepMind Alan had published over 150 peer-reviewed articles including first-author studies in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.
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Quantifying urban park use in the USA at scale: empirical estimates of realised park usage using smartphone location data
Michael T Young
Swapnil Vispute
Stylianos Serghiou
Akim Kumok
Yash Shah
Kevin J. Lane
Flannery Black-Ingersoll
Paige Brochu
Monica Bharel
Sarah Skenazy
Shailesh Bavadekar
Mansi Kansal
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Gregory A. Wellenius
Lancet Planetary Health (2024)
Towards Generalist Biomedical AI
Danny Driess
Andrew Carroll
Chuck Lau
Ryutaro Tanno
Ira Ktena
Basil Mustafa
Aakanksha Chowdhery
Simon Kornblith
Philip Mansfield
Sushant Prakash
Renee Wong
Sunny Virmani
Sara Mahdavi
Bradley Green
Ewa Dominowska
Joelle Barral
Karan Singhal
Pete Florence
NEJM AI (2024)
Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation
Annika Reinke
Lena Maier-Hein
Paul Jager
Shravya Shetty
Understanding Metrics Workgroup
Nature Methods (2024)
Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI
Khaled Saab
Jan Freyberg
Ryutaro Tanno
Amy Wang
Brenna Li
Nenad Tomašev
Karan Singhal
Le Hou
Albert Webson
Kavita Kulkarni
Sara Mahdavi
Juro Gottweis
Joelle Barral
Kat Chou
Arxiv (2024) (to appear)
Safety principles for medical summarization using generative AI
Dillon Obika
Christopher Kelly
Nicola Ding
Chris Farrance
Praney Mittal
Donny Cheung
Heather Cole-Lewis
Madeleine Elish
Nature Medicine (2024)
Generative models improve fairness of medical classifiers under distribution shifts
Ira Ktena
Olivia Wiles
Isabela Albuquerque
Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi
Ryutaro Tanno
Danielle Belgrave
Taylan Cemgil
Nature Medicine (2024)
Creating an Empirical Dermatology Dataset Through Crowdsourcing With Web Search Advertisements
Abbi Ward
Jimmy Li
Julie Wang
Sriram Lakshminarasimhan
Ashley Carrick
Jay Hartford
Pradeep Kumar S
Sunny Virmani
Renee Wong
Margaret Ann Smith
Dawn Siegel
Steven Lin
Justin Ko
JAMA Network Open (2024)