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Dr-D-nila

Dr. D. Nila Priyadharshini Dhanasekaran

Pro-Chancellor, Takshashila University 

 

Qualifications
  • Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Lancaster University, England, 2022
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, 2021

Dr. T. Nagarajan is a Professor and Associate Dean with over 30 years of academic and research experience in Computer Science. He holds a doctoral degree from IIT Madras and a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Scientific Research, Montreal, Canada. His research interests span natural language processing, machine learning, and intelligent systems. He has mentored numerous doctoral scholars and actively collaborates with industry partners on applied AI initiatives.

Tamil NLP Corpus Development

Large-scale annotated corpora for Tamil POS tagging, NER, and sentiment analysis.

DST Funded 2021–2024

Tamil NLP Corpus Development

Large-scale annotated corpora for Tamil POS tagging, NER, and sentiment analysis.

DST Funded 2021–2024

Tamil NLP Corpus Development

Large-scale annotated corpora for Tamil POS tagging, NER, and sentiment analysis.

DST Funded 2021–2024

Best Research Paper Award – IEEE ICCCI 2023

International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics

Excellence in Teaching Award – Takshashila University, 2022

DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award, 2010

Fellow – Institution of Engineers India (FIE), 2019

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Bio

Dr. Nila Priyadharshini Dhanasekaran trained as a physician before moving into university and hospital administration. She completed her medical degree at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research and later pursued a master’s degree in entrepreneurship and innovation at Lancaster University, combining clinical training with a formal grounding in business strategy.

Her early exposure to management came through internships across her family’s ventures, including a management training stint at Indbazaar and clinical internships at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital and Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, where she treated patients directly under physician supervision. She joined SMV Healthcare’s leadership as Director in 2019, taking on sales and talent management responsibilities while the company was still an early-stage medical startup.

Since 2023, she has held Pro-Chancellor duties at Takshashila University alongside trustee roles at two Puducherry-based educational trusts, applying her clinical background to the oversight of the university’s hospital and medical college construction. She continues to study healthcare technology through executive programs, having completed coursework in AI applications for medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2024.

Volunteering
Organising Committee Member, Medical Camp, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Hospital, April 2019 to May 2019
Helped organise an eye camp serving rural communities.

Technical Skills

Windows, Python, Microsoft Office

 

Languages

English, Tamil, Hindi (Read, Write, Speak)

Hobbies

Playing Guitar and Keyboard

Work Experience

Honorable Mentions

Awards and Extracurricular Activities

Trained in Indian Classical Dance, Bharatanatyam, since 2008

Winner, school dance competition, 2009, among 85 participants

Winner, intra-school table tennis competition, 2013, among 35 participants

Certifications

AI in Healthcare, Harvard Medical School Online, November 2024

Entrepreneurship Essentials, Harvard Business School Online, April 2020

The Entrepreneurial Edge Programme, London Business School, June to August 2020

Presentations and Conferences

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