DrSwathi Padmanabhan

I am an Imperial College Research Fellow (AI in Science), supported by Schmidt Sciences, and hosted by Prof. James Choi and Prof. Anil A. Bharath in the Department of Bioengineering and I-X Imperial.

My work sits at the intersection of optics, ultrasound, and AI. I am building a research group focused on making wearable health-sensing devices smarter and more adaptive, particularly through photoacoustics. I'm exploring how combining this with AI can unlock new, continuous, non-invasive ways to monitor health, sparing patients frequent finger pricks, blood draws, and clinic visits.

During my PhD, I worked on developing polarisation-based photoacoustic systems for chiral biomolecular sensing and non-invasive glucose sensing.

If you're excited about understanding chirality, non-invasively sensing biomolecules, applying AI to make instrumentation smarter, and pushing wearable sensing toward real-time, self-learning performance — please email me!