Chennai girl in Forbes list with tool to combat addiction

  • | Thursday | 16th November, 2017

Chennai native is among the innovators and entrepreneurs in the Forbes` `30 under 30` list in the area of healthcare. This is the second year in a row that Chennai has made it in Forbes. The technology is in the process of being clinically validated and Shanmugam hopes to launch the product in the market by the summer of 2018. Predictions made with 95% accuracy in 2 trials.

Chennai native is among the innovators and entrepreneurs in the Forbes` `30 under 30` list in the area of healthcare. This is the second year in a row that Chennai has made it in Forbes.

The 2018 edition includes Akshaya Shanmugam, 29, the CEO of Lumme Inc., which is cracking the code to beat addictive behaviour by combining wearable technology, machine learning, and behavioural psychology.

In January this year, 27-year-old Vivek Kopparthi had made it to the 2017 list for his contributions in neonatal care technology.

Shanmugam was pursuing her PhD in an area that involves developing health monitoring systems outside hospitals, she met Abhinav Parate who was working on a thesis with wearables. Shanmugam set up Lumme to solve the global addiction problem.

The technology is in the process of being clinically validated and Shanmugam hopes to launch the product in the market by the summer of 2018. Predictions made with 95% accuracy in 2 trials.


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