Leeladhar Annepu
Lead AI Research Engineer & Staff Scientist
M.Tech, AI/ML Systems (VIT). 5.5+ years in industry ML, most recently leading the Quality vertical at GSK, with EXL, Wipro, and MyEyeDr before that.
ORCID iDTwo years that rewired AI, in plain language.
From NVIDIA’s Blackwell and Rubin to reasoning models and AlphaFold 3: what changed, and why it matters for science in a small lab.
- Jan 2026NVIDIA & compute
Vera Rubin enters production
NVIDIA claims up to 10x lower inference cost per token than Blackwell. Cheaper tokens are what make always-on research agents affordable.
NVIDIA Newsroom - Nov 2025Models
Gemini 3 raises the multimodal bar
Science is multimodal (figures, gels, scans, sequences), and models now read them together.
Google - Aug 2025Models
GPT-5 and open-weight gpt-oss
Both closed and open options now offer reasoning, so labs can choose based on privacy, cost, and control.
OpenAI - May 2025Models
Agents that work for hours
Agents that can keep working on a task for hours are the building block for automated literature review and analysis pipelines.
Anthropic
What the lab works on
From the research desk
All insightsVerification is the bottleneck now, not generation
Co-Scientist, Robin, and AlphaEvolve all succeed where an automatic check, an assay, or a clinician can judge the output. For a small lab the lesson is to spend effort on evaluators, citation checks, and validation plans before building more agents.
- arXiv 2502.18864 · 2025Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-ScientistGottweis et al., Google
- arXiv 2505.13400 · 2025Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discoveryGhareeb et al., FutureHouse
- arXiv 2409.13740 · 2024Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledgeSkarlinski et al., FutureHouse
Our mission
Our mission is to use AI to make biomedical discovery faster, safer, and open to everyone, so research reaches patients sooner.
Industry rigor. Clinical grounding.
A small founding team pairing production machine learning from regulated pharma with a practising physician’s judgment.
Dr. Sasidhar, MD
Chief Clinical Advisor
General Medicine, Sasidhar Hospitals. Reviews whether our questions matter at the bedside. Our Clinical Rounds on new drugs and advanced care run in partnership with Sasidhar Hospitals.
Take a seat at the bench.
Season 1 runs 31 Oct – 18 Dec 2026, in Srikakulam and online. Pick a program; every row opens its details and dates.
- Frontier Paper ClubSat · 10:00 ISTSrikakulam + onlineOpen
- Build Night: Agents for ScienceWed · 18:30 ISTSrikakulam + onlineOpen
- GPU 101: From Notebook to AcceleratorSun · 14:00 ISTSrikakulamOpen
- Clinical Rounds: New Drugs & Advanced CareFri · 17:00 ISTOnlineOpen
- Open Data SprintSat–Sun · Full weekendSrikakulam + onlineOpen
- Student Research Fellowship8 weeks · Part-timeHybridApplications open
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Working on AI for science or medicine? Build it with us.
We co-author studies, share data, and run clinical validation with researchers, postdocs, clinicians, and grant partners. A person on the research team reads every message.