LEADERSHIP
Dr. Keith Hanna, Executive Director and Chair
Dr. Hanna has spent the past two years forging digital connections in South Africa. As well as bringing his own extensive background in developing world-class data-centric systems for AI applications, his approach is to partner with leaders in healthcare technologies worldwide to develop data-oriented software solutions that can be applied to global health problems at scale.
In South Africa, he and his team worked on scalable methods for eliminating loss to follow-up for HIV, while at the same time reducing the cost burden due to over-testing. He also developed patient-centric architectures to enable the sharing of medical records across remote clinics. The scope of this work has now greatly increased to develop reusable software APIs and Data Standards to enable integrators worldwide to integrate, test, deploy, refine, support and re-use highly capable systems without having to develop specialized component capabilities themselves. The goal is to disrupt solutions for global healthcare, much in the same way that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other software-as-a-service capabilities have disrupted solutions elsewhere.
Dr. Hanna draws on his 25+ years’ experience in developing and deploying advanced AI and video solutions. Dr. Hanna spent 2 years working with physicians at the John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford, UK, while working on his D.Phil thesis on algorithms to measure change in cataract in the human eye for testing the efficacy of anti-cataract drugs. He held numerous positions at SRI International over a 15-year period, including Group Head, Vision Systems. He was also co-founder and CTO at EyeLock Corporation, a leading biometrics provider. He has over 25 publications and is an inventor on over 80 patents. In 2007 he was awarded the Most Influential Paper over the Decade from the International Association of Pattern Recognition, for his pioneering work in biometrics and iris recognition.
He received a B.A. in Engineering Sciences and a D.Phil in Medical Image Processing and Computer Vision, from Oxford University.
BOARD MEMBERS
Dr. Rakesh “Teddy” Kumar
Rakesh “Teddy” Kumar, Ph.D., is Vice President, Information and Computing Sciences and Director of the Center for Vision Technologies at SRI International. In this role, he is responsible for leading research and development of innovative end-to-end vision solutions from image capture to situational understanding that translate into real-world applications such as robotics, intelligence extraction and human computer interaction.
Kumar has served on NSF review and DARPA ISAT panels. He has also been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He has co-authored more than 60 research publications, and received more than 50 patents. His research has enabled a number of spin-off companies and his ability to bring lab-born research to support real-world applications, provides guidance, ensuring DHI’s innovation is connected with human impact.
Kumar received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1992. His M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering is from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995, and his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering is from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1983.
Dr. Manoj Aggarwal
Dr. Aggarwal is an Inventor, Entrepreneur and technical manager. He holds 20+ design & utility patents, 19 published papers, and 5 innovation awards, including the Ross J. Martin award for Outstanding Graduate Research. He has led projects for private industry, governments, and the military.
As a technical leader at SRI and currently, at Amazon, helping pioneer the next generation of retail technology, he knows the value of innovation. Specifically, Dr. Aggarwal understands that innovation can have a disproportionately large effect on improving lives in the developing world. His experience building technical teams provides business and strategic guidance to ensure that Digital Health Integration executes on its mission to develop solutions for those who need them most.
He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Harpreet Sawhney
Harpreet S. Sawhney is a Principal and Technical Lead for 3D Vision, Visual Learning and Mixed Reality in Cognition at Microsoft. His passion is to change the way people work, live and play by augmenting the real world through visual understanding of scenes, objects and humans in all walks of life. He is leading the development and productization of key 3D Visual Understanding capabilities for HoloLens like devices and Cloud platforms.
As CTO-Vision Technologies at SRI (Sarnoff Corp.) in Princeton, NJ, he led and directed Vision and Learning Research towards DoD and Commercial applications. He led and executed on numerous high impact technologies and projects for DARPA and IARPA. He has a proven record of deep and broad technology development and deliverable prototyping in areas such as 3D Vision, Visual Scene, Object and Event Understanding, Motion Understanding and Dynamic Vision, and Large Scale Visual Data Analytics. His guidance at Digital Health Integration ensures that the organization will bring forth innovations that work in the field as well as in a lab.
Sawhney obtained his PhD in Computer Vision from UMass, Amherst. He has published over 100 technical papers in reputed Computer Vision journals and conferences, and is an inventor on over 60 US patents. He served as the Associate Editor of IEEE T-PAMI (Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) and as an Area Chair for Computer Vision conferences.
