Background
Vikram Kumar was born in the United States to an Indian-American family. His father was a neurosurgeon.
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As a child, the family returned to India, where Kumar attended the Modern School in New Delhi. After graduation, he studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology. He then studied medicine at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Career
In 1996, Kumar returned to the United States, and received a Bachelor of Science in operations research from Columbia University in 1999. In 2002, Kumar co-founded Dimagi, a for-profit software company which develops open-source software technology for doctors in impoverished areas. Kumar currently serves as the company"s Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
He also co-founded Cogito Health Incorporated, a startup which uses a mobile-phone based voice analysis system to determine the mental health patterns of patients, and Ozorie, which manufactures pain relief, rapid heal, and hair revival products.
In 2007, Kumar completed a residency as a clinical pathologist at Brigham and Women"s Hospital. While in India, Kumar also founded another startup.
After his father"s death, he returned to Boston to better manage Dimagi. In 2004, Technology Review named him one of the world"s top 100 innovators under 35 in biotechnology and medicine, and awarded him the "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award.
