Karthik Sarma
Founder, AI In Mental Health Research Group at American Medical Association
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Sarma is a physician-scientist and health AI leader based in San Francisco, with 16 years of experience building clinical AI, digital mental health, and immersive medical simulation products. He founded UCSF’s AI in Mental Health Research Group and co-founded SimX, where as CTO he scaled a VR medical-simulation platform from startup to acquisition while leading $20M+ research initiatives. Trained at Caltech (BS CS) and UCLA (MD, PhD in Bioengineering), he blends rigorous engineering, clinical practice, and policy experience as an active leader in the AMA, APA, and California Medical Association. His work spans federated learning, automated medical imaging and informatics, and next-generation AI/extended-reality systems for clinician training and decision support. Uncommonly for a physician technologist, he has driven both product commercialization and large-scale grant-funded research, advising startups and health systems through his consultancy.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLAUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (55)
python9
gpu9
deep-learning8
reaction8
machine-learning8
facebook8
elastix8
neural-network7
numpy7
luks7
tensorflow7
image-registration7
dta7
beancount7
c-library7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ksarma/2021PhDThesis
May 2021 - Jul 2021
UCLA Thesis LaTeX style
Contributions:54 pushes in 1 month
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SimX-Inc/VR-Backpack-Tools
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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