After seeing Parkinson's take his father, this Googler found a new mission: teaching AI to chase cures
Vivek Natarajan, a research scientist at Google DeepMind Vivek Natarajan Vivek Natarajan of Google DeepMind was inspired by his father's battle with Parkinson's disease. Initiatives like Co-Scientist and Co-Clinician are pushing medical and scientific research forward. Natarajan aims to close gaps between AI's scientific potential and real-world solutions. Vivek Natarajan is one of the Google DeepMind researchers trying to prove that advanced AI can do more than improve search, ads, and recommendations. His work sits at the center of one of Google's most ambitious bets: that AI can become a collaborator for doctors and scientists, helping diagnose disease, propose experiments, and speed up the search for new treatments. For Natarajan, that mission stems from seeing his father suffer. His dad spent 35 years at a widely read Indian newspaper. Then Parkinson's disease began to change him. While Natarajan was completing a master's degree in the US, his father sta...
