Sharath Guntuku
Associate Professor (Research)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSharath Chandra Guntuku is an Associate Professor (Research) at the University of Pennsylvania who leads the Computational Social Science Lab, blending NLP, AI, and behavioral science to study population mental and physical health across cultures. With 11 years of experience and a PhD from Nanyang Technological University, he builds scalable AI systems for norm discovery, mental health assessment, and equitable access to care, translating research into policy-relevant insights. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers in top venues such as PNAS, Nature Digital Medicine, and JAMA Network Open, and has secured more than $4.5M in PI funding from sources including the NIH and Penn Global. In addition to his faculty role, he directs Data Science Projects for Penn’s MS in Engineering in Data Science and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute, demonstrating a rare blend of academic leadership and applied health impact. A practical innovator, his trajectory from deep-learning facial action unit work to large-scale digital phenotyping highlights a willingness to bridge low-level technical rigor with societally impactful, ethical AI.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and SciencePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Telugu, Hindi, French
Github Skills (20)
machine-learning6
deep-learning5
caffe5
pytorch4
recommender3
recommendation-engine3
clr2
recommendation-system2
computer-vision2
recommender-system2
collaborative-filtering2
matrix-factorization2
flickr1
python1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chandrasg/CDBN
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
sharathchandra92/asharathchandra92.github.io
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 days
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.