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My grandmother, Chinnathai was a Siddhar as was my great-grandfather, Ganapathy. She would do face-reading using an ancient Siddha Science called Samudrika Lakshanam. Looking at your face, she could tell what was wrong within your body. At a young age, I realized that all things are connected... the face is connected to organs, mind connected to the body. At an early age, I developed a passion to find connections across systems. My work naturally evolved integrating East and West, Ancient and Modern, Mind and Body, Traditional Systems of Medicine and Systems Biology... more
Biomimetics for Design of Complex Systems
Two of my passions are the design and development of systems for supporting large-scale organizations e.g. EMAIL, EchoMail, and the other is medicine and biology. My doctoral work at M.I.T. focused on understanding how the cell works towards building a computational system for modeling the whole cell. My work in designing large-scale communication infrastructures for Global 2000 companies afforded me the opportunity to realize how archaic and siloed... more
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