Raghu Dharmaraju

Raghu Dharmaraju has spent over two decades building deep-technology products, public infrastructure, and award-winning medical technology solutions with enduring impact. Now leading AI and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) at the Indian Institute of Science, he helped launch initiatives like the Medical Imaging Datasets for India system and real-time outbreak prediction platforms covering 80 million people.

Dharmaraju is a two-time Global Grand Challenge winner for equitable AI and winner of the Google AI Impact Challenge. He co-founded the national tuberculosis initiative TRACE-TB at Wadhwani AI, raising approximately $20 million from global donors. Dharmaraju is a veteran of the tech-for-good space and was instrumental in starting the ‘AI for social good’ movement as a founding leader at Wadhwani AI. His Embrace Infant Warmers reached over one million babies via the World Health Organisation and governments.

With academic foundations from IIT Madras, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Cornell University, Dharmaraju has shaped national AI programmes with partners like the Indian Council of Medical Research, NITI Aayog and Google. His work bridges policy, research and social scale.