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Enhancing Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis using Speech Analysis: A Feature Subset Selection Approach with LIME and SHAP
Multimodal AI · Explainability
IEEE
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About
Two decades of building enterprise AI — from boardroom strategy to production systems.
I'm Anand Mahalingam, Ph.D — currently Head of AI & Data Science at Digit Insurance, and I've spent 20+ years scaling AI and data programs across insurance, healthcare, telecom, and enterprise services. My work sits at the intersection of frontier AI and enterprise scale — building LLM-powered platforms, agentic systems, and Voice AI pipelines that ship to production and stay there.
Enterprise AIGen AIAgentic AIRAG & MCPVoice AIResponsible AIAI Governance
Career
Built at Scale. Now: enterprise AI & Generative AI.
The AI work today is grounded in two decades of building, scaling, and leading enterprise technology across telecom, IT delivery, healthcare, and financial services.
2024 - Present
Head of AI & Data ScienceCurrent
GoDigit General Insurance Limited - Bengaluru
2021 - 2023
Head of AI - Data Labs - Vice President
HDFC Life - Bengaluru
Education
Doctoral work — past and present.
A Ph.D in Management from SASTRA, ongoing doctoral work in Computer Science at Amrita focused on multimodal AI for medical diagnosis, and an undergraduate engineering foundation.
2022 - Present - In Progress
Doctor of Philosophy
Computer Science
Computer Science
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Multimodal AI for medical diagnosis · Expected 2026
Multimodal AI for medical diagnosis · Expected 2026
Awarded 2015
Doctor of Philosophy
Technology Management
Technology Management
SASTRA University
B.E
Bachelor of Engineering
Electrical & Electronics
Electrical & Electronics
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Published Research
On explainable AI and voice-based disease detection.
Four peer-reviewed papers on multimodal AI for Parkinson's diagnosis through speech analysis — published in IEEE and Springer venues, with an emphasis on explainability and real-world applicability.
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Explaining Parkinson's Disease Detection by Ensemble Classifiers with Local Interpretable Features
Ensemble methods · Interpretability
Springer
03
Parkinson's Disease Severity Assessment: A Comparative Study & Interpretability Analysis
Severity scoring · Comparative study
IEEE
04
Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis from Patients' Speech Analysis
Speech features · Clinical AI
Springer
Top skills
The technical and domain ground I keep my hands on.
PythonLLMs & RAGAgentic AIMCP ArchitecturesVoice AIComputer VisionNLPCloud(AWS, GCP & Azure)AI Governance
Certifications & languages
Credentials and the tongues I conduct business in.
AWS Cloud PractitionerAnthropic MCPTensorflow for AI/ML/DLDigital Transformation
EnglishHindiTamilKannada