KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Accelerating science and medicine with AI physician-scientists
Lecture date: October 27, 2025
Presented by:
Vivek Natarajan
Vivek is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind leading research at the intersection of AI, medicine and science. 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.
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.
Most recently, Vivek co-led the development of the AI co-scientist, designed as a virtual collaborator to scientists to accelerate the clock speed of scientific discoveries.
Prior to Google, Vivek worked on multimodal assistant systems at Facebook AI Research. He is also part of the faculty for executive education at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in a part-time capacity.