Janani Kalyanam is a Senior Research Associate at GHPi and a PhD Candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego. She holds a BS from Rutgers University and a Masters from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, all in ECE. Her research focuses on developing machine learning and data science based tools to solve big data and related problems with applications specific to global public health. While her educational background is primarily in Computer Science and Engineering, she is passionate about work that is interdisciplinary in nature, and believes that it requires minds from a variety of disciplines to solve important problems in society.