Shivaram Poigai Arunachalam – Innovate AI 2026
Session 1: AI in Health Care
Shivaram Poigai Arunachalam, Ph.D., DBA
Poigai Arunachalam is currently an assistant professor of medicine and radiology at Mayo Clinic. Poigai Arunachalam’s primary research and clinical interest focuses on physiologically consistent signal and image processing methods leveraging hybrid artificial intelligence and digital engineering techniques. With over 20 years of experience in AI and data science with 15 years in Mayo Clinic, Poigai Arunachalam’s unique background in biology/physiology, radiation physics and engineering has led to several innovative discovery sciences leveraging AI with potential clinical translation to improve human lives. Poigai Arunachalam established the Digital Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DEAL) providing AI consults and technical leadership across all medicine faculties. Poigai Arunachalam also established the Microwave Engineering and Imaging Laboratory for characterizing dielectric biomarkers for AI-powered noninvasive diagnosis of various diseases. Poigai Arunachalam also holds graduate faculty appointments with the Clinical and Translational Science Department at Mayo Clinic and with University of Minnesota’s Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Department and has mentored several postdoctorates, undergraduate/graduate students, DOM fellows and allied health professionals. Poigai Arunachalam is also the founder and CEO of Patfoci Technologies Inc. and VitalGenius Inc., which focuses on providing innovative AI powered hardware and software as medical device solutions.