Researcher

Pavitra Krishnaswamy is a Principal Scientist at the Machine Intellection Department and Deputy Head of the Healthcare and MedTech Division, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I²R). She earned her PhD in Electrical and Medical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School, USA; and then completed postdoctoral work at MIT. At A*STAR I2R, she leads multidisciplinary R&D initiatives and teams interfacing multimodal real-world data, machine learning and clinical informatics for wide-ranging healthcare applications. Her recent efforts centre on statistical learning and inference, representation learning, and domain knowledge integration for precision health, chronic disease management and decision support applications. She has been named one of the Singapore 100 Women in Technology and recognised as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. Innovations from her team have been translated to enabling platforms and practical healthcare AI solutions.