About me
Krisha is a global health advocate and technology innovator dedicated to building capacity through universal digital health infrastructure and algorithmic transparency.
She has an extensive background in machine learning research, contributing to projects focused on cardiovascular disease, therapeutic response prediction, and maternal health outcomes at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Most recently, Krisha helped build an image-based machine to identify mothers at high risk of post-delivery infections in rural Rwanda. She helped train local health workers there and hosted dissemination seminars, merging the novel technology with their on-the-ground needs. Krisha has also developed and taught curricula on deep learning, biomedical image analysis, and model development/deployment, offering approaches and solutions that leverage technology to address inequalities in resource-limited settings. In the United States, Krisha leads an advocacy initiative to promote immigrant health outcomes and is the co-founder of Harvard University’s Rare Disease Hackathon. As a Roberts Family Tech Fellow, she is working with the Harvard Innovation Labs to build ling.ai, a language-agnostic natural language processing tool to detect developmental language disorders. She has been named a 2021 Coca-Cola Scholar and National Merit Scholar for her achievements in health and technology. Krisha is a passionate advocate for global health strategies and macro-budgeting endeavors that are both scalable and sustainable.