Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a professor of electrical engineering at IIT Madras and heads the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at IIT Madras where he leads a large-scale multi-disciplinary effort to image and map whole human brains at a cellular level. He also heads IITM’s Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre that develops and deploys affordable healthcare technologies at scale through strong collaborations with hospitals, industry, and startups.