Vivek Natarajan

Biography
Vivek Natarajan is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind leading research at the intersection of AI, science and medicine. In particular, Vivek was the lead researcher behind Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2, which were the first AI systems to obtain passing and expert level scores on US Medical License exam questions respectively. Med-PaLM was published in Nature in 2023 and has been featured in The Scientific American, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, STAT News, CNBC, Forbes, New Scientist among others. Vivek co-leads Project AMIE with Dr Alan Karthikesalingam at Google, a research effort aiming to build and democratize conversational, multimodal, diagnostic and empathetic medical super intelligence. Two papers from Project AMIE were recently published in Nature with the AI system surpassing primary care physicians in performing medical consultations in simulated settings. Finally, Vivek recently co-led the development of the AI co-scientist, a system designed to be a virtual AI collaborator for scientists. Outside of Google, Vivek is also part of the faculty for executive education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in a part-time capacity.