Krishna Kandarpa, M.D., Ph.D. (Engineering Science.), is a cardiovascular and interventional radiologist (CVIR) and Director of Research Sciences and Strategic Directions at National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering /NIH. At the NIH, he has championed and led key programs in Artificial Intelligence applications in Medical Imaging. Prior to joining the NIH, he was CMO/CSO/EVP-R&D at DELCATH Systems, Inc., Manhattan, NY, where his team developed a minimally invasive combination device/drug treatments for liver tumors, which received FDA approval in 2024. Prior to his sojourn into industry, he was a Tenured Professor & Chair of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School & Radiologist-in-Chief of UMass-Memorial Health Care, where he established the Center for Innovative Imaging & Intervention (CI*3). Earlier, at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, he was a Professor of Radiology, Chief of Service & CVIR Director at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, and simultaneously an adjunct professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Prior to this, he was an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School & co-director of the CVIR Division at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, while also serving as a faculty member at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Program, in Boston, MA. Dr. Kandarpa was an active biomedical researcher (experimental, theoretical & clinical) during his academic carrier, has published extensively, and lectured world-wide. He had served as Chair of the Research & Education Foundation of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIRREF) and represented SIR on the board of the Academy of Radiology Research (ex-ARBIR), which supported the establishment NIBIB at the NIH. He is the author a textbook entitled Peripheral Vascular interventions, which has been translated into Chinese and the popular Handbook of Interventional Radiologic Procedures, whose 6th edition was published in May 2023. This Handbook has been translated into 6 foreign languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, with the Russian version due to be out soon.