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Highlights from the rises.AI journey

From NITI Aayog and ICMR to TiE Global, the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva, and the India AI Impact Summit — a running record of the recognition, collaborations and platforms that have shaped rises.AI since 2017.

75+
Research papers
19
WHO-indexed papers
Top 10
Startup India AI, of 1,000+
45
Startups in AIM's AI-Preneurs book
25+
Conferences, panels & keynotes
Government & National Recognition Global Platforms & Summits Industry & Academic Collaboration Media & Press Research & Publications Thought Leadership

Government & National Recognition

6 milestones

Appreciated by the institutions that shape India's public-health policy — NITI Aayog, the Atal Innovation Mission, ICMR and Startup India.

AI-Preneurs of India coffee table book 2026

AIM "AI-Preneurs of India" — India AI Impact Summit 2026

One of 45 AI startups profiled in the coffee-table book launched by the Atal Innovation Mission at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, spotlighting founders solving real healthcare and social-impact problems with AI.

ICMR Innovative TB Health Technologies workshop

ICMR — Innovative TB Health Technologies Workshop

Reviewed at ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi, by a panel spanning MoHFW, NITI Aayog and WHO. Rises' AI-based imaging analytics was ranked among the top 20 innovations supporting India's 2025 TB-elimination goal.

Jun 2023
AIM Innovation for You Healthcare coffee table book

AIM "Innovation for You — Healthcare"

Featured by the Atal Innovation Mission in its Healthcare coffee-table book, launched as part of AIM's "Sector in Focus" programme spotlighting India's high-tech health innovators.

NITI Aayog and AIM social media appreciation

NITI Aayog & Atal Innovation Mission

Publicly appreciated by NITI Aayog and AIM for AI-enabled diagnostic support on lung-related diseases during mass-level COVID-19 testing — flagged directly to the PMO and senior funding-agency leadership.

Startup India Top 10 AI

Startup India — Top 10 AI Startup

Pitched to government-linked investors through Startup India's COVID-19 resource programme, ranking in the top 10 AI/software startups out of more than 1,000 applications received.

Shortlisted by national agencies fighting COVID-19

Shortlisted by National Agencies

Listed as an AIM/NITI Aayog incubatee initiative fighting COVID-19, and featured on the national "Startups vs COVID-19" resource platform alongside a curated set of Indian response solutions.

Global Platforms & Summits

6 milestones

From Santa Clara to Geneva to Delhi — presenting rises.AI's diagnostic platform on international stages.

India AI Impact Summit 2026 HSBC pre-event panel

India AI Impact Summit 2026 — HSBC Pre-Event

Shared an AI panel with leadership from HSBC and Deutsche Bank at a pre-event hosted by HSBC with IIT Bombay, discussing rises.AI's TB and mammography screening deployments — with follow-on investor interest.

Stop TB Partnership One World TB Summit Varanasi

Stop TB Partnership, Geneva — One World TB Summit

Invited by the Stop TB Partnership, hosted by the UNOPS Global Health Campus, to present at the India TB Innovators' Spectacle during the 36th Board Meeting in Varanasi.

Mar 2023
India Today Indo-Japan Conclave New Delhi

India Today — Indo-Japan Conclave, New Delhi

Connected with Japanese healthcare majors, including Fujifilm and NEC, and investors such as MUFG, at India Today's Indo-Japan Conclave presented by Maruti Suzuki.

Infinity India France Digital Partnership Summit

India–France Digital Partnership Summit

Exhibited alongside a curated group of Indian startups at Infinity, the first India-France Digital Partnership Summit, marking 75 years of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.

Tata Memorial Centre EBM conference

Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai — EBM Conference

Invited to speak at the international "Evidence Based Management of Cancers in India" conference, presenting AI for tracking cancer treatment through diagnostic imaging data.

TiE Global Kirloskars event

TiE Global — Kirloskars: Past, Present & Future

Presented Rises' Chronic & Critical Care AI software to 600+ attendees worldwide, at a TiE Global (Santa Clara, USA) webinar hosted with the Kirloskar Group.

Industry & Academic Collaboration

13 milestones

Keynotes, panels and partnership conversations with TCS, IRIA, leading medical colleges, and India's top engineering institutes.

AI Summit 2025 NIT Raipur

NIT Raipur Biomedical Engineering

Delivered an expert talk on "Revolutionizing Healthcare: The AI Advantage" at NIT Raipur, followed by collaboration discussions with the Biomedical Engineering department.

Sep 2025
AI Summit 2025 AISSMS IOIT Pune

AISSMS IOIT Pune

Chief guest at AISSMS IOIT Pune's AI Summit 2025; delivered an expert talk on "Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnostics"

Sep 2025
Indian Medical Association Chhattisgarh TARANG 2025

Indian Medical Association, Chhattisgarh — TARANG 2025

Addressed practising clinicians at IMA-MSN Chhattisgarh's biggest medical youth fest, with follow-on business meetings at hospitals including Shri Balaji Institute of Medical Science, Raipur.

Sep 2025
DMIHER Medicon 2025 Wardha

DMIHER Medicon 2025 Wardha

Narayana Darapaneni PhD, delivered the keynote at DMIHER Medicon 2025, Wardha

2025
GAIN GTT Data AI Accelerator Network

GAIN — GTT Data AI Accelerator Network

Presented to a roundtable of AI startups convened by gttDATA, whose leadership includes Chairman Dr Ganesh Natarajan (ex-CEO, Zensar); joint go-to-market discussions with prospective clients now underway.

Symbiosis Institute of Technology Pune AI ML panel

Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune — AI & ML Panel

Panel on "Strategies for Development of a Scalable AI-Powered Workforce" with Innoplexus, Yotta Data and LTIMindtree leadership — sparking new collaboration interest from Philips Diagnostics, C-DAC and Yotta's Nvidia AI cloud.

Innoplexus GPU meetup computer vision in healthcare

Innoplexus GPU Meetup — Computer Vision in Healthcare

Spoke on "Revolutionizing Diagnostics Imaging with Semi-Supervised Learning and Gen AI Techniques" at a GPU-focused meetup hosted by Innoplexus.

Dec 2023
IRIA Artificial Intelligence Committee

IRIA — Artificial Intelligence Committee

Reviewed and appreciated by the AI Committee of the Indian Radiological & Imaging Association, chaired by Dr Mona Bhatia (Fortis, Delhi), with Dr Sandeep Jaipurkar (Chennai) mentoring the programme.

IRIA Telangana Radiology CME Mamata Medical College

IRIA Telangana — Radiology CME

Presented rises.AI's CT-lung findings work at a Radiology CME jointly organised by IRIA's Telangana State Chapter and the Department of Radio-diagnosis, Mamata Medical College, Khammam.

Jan 2021
World Health Parliament online session 6

World Health Parliament — Session 6

Addressed an audience of roughly 5,000 at this global conference on public health, education and research: "AI reduces the stress on medical professionals and works as preventive tech, helping reduce mortality rate."

IIIE 62nd National Convention pharma sector

IIIE 62nd National Convention

Keynote on digital technologies and challenges in the pharma sector in the post-pandemic world — covering AI, ML, DL applications and the horizons opening up for the industry.

TCS NASSCOM keynote on AI

TCS NASSCOM Keynote on AI

Rises' Chronic & Critical Care Medical AI Assistant showcased and appreciated by TCS leadership in a NASSCOM West keynote, "From Lab to Life: Operationalizing AI to Improve Your Business Processes."

Oct 2020
MIT-ADT IEEE webinar Scope of AI Systems in Corona Pandemic

MIT-ADT / IEEE Webinar — AI Systems in the Corona Pandemic

Invited as domain expert, co-presenting with Dr Arun Jamkar (ex-Dean, Medical Colleges, Pune), on AI-based diagnostics automation and its application to COVID-19.

Jun 2020
AIM incubator and eChai panel discussions

AIM Incubator & eChai Panels

Panel on "Role of AI in Healthcare: COVID-19, Pandemic and Beyond" hosted by an AIM incubator, plus an Ask-Me-Anything session with AIC-LMCP Foundation and a "AI against COVID-19" webinar at NIT Raipur.

2020

Media & Press Coverage

5 milestones

National publications and regional press have covered rises.AI's diagnostic technology and its impact on patient care.

Divya Bhaskar Gujarati news coverage

Divya Bhaskar — Gujarati Digital Media

Covered as an AI-based innovation from Gujarat that analyses a chest X-ray and flags disease, its severity and its likely spread — in under half a second.

Lemon Ideas I am doing it coffee table book

Lemon Ideas — "I am doing it…" Coffee Table Book

Rises' story featured as one of 60 "game changers", with founders Ajit Deshpande and Dr Narayana Darapaneni sharing how a chance conversation at TCS grew into a clinical decision-support company.

2023
Kurukshetra journal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Kurukshetra — Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

Featured in the November 2022 "Science and Technology" issue of Kurukshetra, a national rural-development journal published by the Government of India, as an AIC-LMCP-incubated high-tech healthcare startup.

GVFL Vibrant Gujarat 2022 coffee table book

GVFL — Vibrant Gujarat 2022 Coffee Table Book

Profiled by GVFL, one of India's oldest venture capital firms, at Vibrant Gujarat — the state's flagship global investment summit.

Times of India Nagpur Lemon Ideas story

Times of India, Nagpur

Profiled alongside German innovation partner Lemon Ideas (with GIZ) for an end-to-end diagnostic and treatment-response solution supporting Nagpur's district COVID-19 response, from screening through pharmacy.

Research & Publications

1 spotlight

The science underneath the product — peer-reviewed, and indexed by the World Health Organization.

75+ research papers, and more in process

AI, ML, Deep Learning and BigData work for clinical-workflow optimisation and better patient care — spanning evidence-based management, treatment-response assessment and predictive analytics for pulmonary conditions and COVID-19. Nineteen of these papers are indexed on the WHO's global-literature database, authored by Dr Narayana Darapaneni (PhD, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris), Chief Data Scientist at Rises.

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75 plus research papers on AI ML for COVID-19 and pulmonary conditions

AI/ML/DL Research for Pulmonary & COVID-19 Conditions

Topics span pathology detection on chest X-rays, COVID-19 forecasting and death-rate modelling, hospital bed-utilisation prediction, high-risk patient screening from blood exams, and comorbidity impact analysis — among 19 papers indexed by WHO.

2020–2022

Thought Leadership

Speeches · publications · papers

Founder and team perspectives on AI in healthcare — recorded talks, the peer-reviewed research behind the platform, and the whitepapers we're preparing next.

Speeches & Recorded Talks

A selection of keynotes and panel talks by Rises leadership — recordings linked where publicly available.

AI for Chronic & Critical Care — Treatment Response Assessment & Predictions

Ajit Deshpande, Founder CEO · World Health Parliament, Session 6 · Jan 2021
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Digital Technologies & Challenges in Pharma Sector in the Post-Pandemic World

Ajit Deshpande, Founder CEO · 62nd IIIE National Convention · Jan 2021
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AI for Tracking Cancer Treatment using Diagnostic Imaging Data

Ajit Deshpande · Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai — EBM Conference · 2021
Recording on request
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Role of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: COVID-19, Pandemic and Beyond

Panel with Dr Akash Doshi & Dolar Adesara · AIM incubator panel discussion · May 2020
Recording on request
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Revolutionizing Diagnostics Imaging with Semi-Supervised Learning and Gen AI Techniques

Ajit Deshpande · Innoplexus GPU Meetup, Computer Vision in Healthcare · Dec 2023
Recording on request
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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The AI Advantage

Ajit Avinash Deshpande · NIT Raipur, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering · Sep 2025
Recording on request

R&D Publications — WHO-Indexed (19 of 75+)

Peer-reviewed papers on AI/ML/Deep Learning for COVID-19 and pulmonary-condition detection, authored by Dr Narayana Darapaneni (PhD, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris), Chief Data Scientist at Rises — indexed on the WHO global-literature database.

01 Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Design for Pathology Detection of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images View →
02 COVID Predictions and Responsible Weather Parameters for Infections in US View →
03 COVID-19 India: Forecast the COVID-19 Pandemic and Death Rate Modelling View →
04 Forecasting Vaccination Drive in India for Herd Immunity using SIR and Prophet Model View →
05 Assessment of Risk Estimates and Fatalities Involved with Covid-19 View →
06 Machine Learning Approach For Clustering Of Countries To Identify The Best Strategies To Combat Covid-19 View →
07 Predicting Hospital Beds Utilization For COVID-19 In Telangana, India View →
08 A Novel Machine Learning Based Screening Method For High-Risk Covid-19 Patients Based On Simple Blood Exams View →
09 Predicting the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in India View →
10 Analysis and Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic in India View →
11 Comorbidity Impact on COVID-19 View →
12 COVID-19 OUTBREAK in INDIA — Flattening the Curve and Raising the Line View →
13 Inception C-Net (IC-Net): Altered Inception Module for Detection of Covid-19 and Pneumonia using Chest X-rays View →
14 COVID-19 Severity of Pneumonia Analysis Using Chest X-Rays View →
15 COVID-19 Infection Dynamics for India — Forecasting the Disease using SIR Models View →
16 A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Covid-19 Cases Amongst Suspected Cases and Their Category of Admission View →
17 Effects of Lockdown and Post-Lockdown on Covid-19 Cases Across India using Supervised Learning Techniques View →
18 Coronavirus Outburst Prediction in India using SEIRD, Logistic Regression and ARIMA Model View →
19 Forecasting of COVID-19 in India Using ARIMA Model View →
+ 56 further papers in process across clinical-workflow optimisation, treatment-response assessment and predictive analytics. See all WHO-indexed papers →

White Papers & Position Papers

Longer-form perspectives on AI policy, clinical validation and deployment at scale — in preparation.

Coming soon

We're preparing whitepapers and position papers on AI-assisted TB & breast-cancer screening at population scale, and on regulatory pathways for clinical-decision-support software in India. Have a paper, report or slide deck you'd like added here now? Send it our way and we'll get it live.

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