Vikram Sheel Kumar

Engineer, Physician, and Entrepreneur

Dr. Vikram Sheel Kumar is an engineer, physician and entrepreneur. From developing ways to hear clinical depression in a patient’s voice to storing lifelong HIV/AIDS records on smart cards in Zambia, Vikram applies technology to solve important and interesting problems. He is the chairman and co-founder of Dimagi Inc., which makes software for public health and education projects in many parts of the world. He has also co-founded companies in voice analytics (Cogito Health Inc.) and renewable energy (Potenco Inc.). Vikram is a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded investigator, a regular contributor to *The Times of India* on science and technology. In 2004, Vikram was named the MIT Technology Review's Humanitarian of the Year and one of the world's 100 top innovators. He is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American, a founding Fellow of Media Lab Asia, a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Emerging Technology Institute and a Board Director of the Bienmoyo Foundation.