Pranav Rajpurkar

Pranav Rajpurkar is the instructor for the Coursera Specialization on AI for Medicine. His research interest is driven by a fundamental passion for building reliable artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for medical decision making. His work has been published in top peer-reviewed publications in both scientific journals and AI conferences and has been covered by media outlets including NPR, The Washington Post, and WIRED. He founded the AI for Healthcare Bootcamp at Stanford, where he has worked closely with and mentored over 100 Stanford students on various research projects. Pranav’s PhD was advised by Dr. Andrew Ng and Dr. Percy Liang at Stanford University, where he also received both his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science.