Nirmal Keshava
Nirmal Keshava is a Senior Principal Informatics Scientist at AstraZeneca, PLC in Waltham, MA, where he is leading efforts to use large-scale analytics to improve the cost and efficiency of drug development. He received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his undergraduate degree from UCLA and has worked at Bell Communications Research, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Draper Laboratory. He is a member of the IEEE LSTC Standards Committee, where his interests are at the intersection of healthcare and engineering, particularly in the use of novel algorithms and healthcare data of all types. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation.