Neil Sardesai

Final-Year Medical Student | Clinical AI Researcher | Engineer

Hey everyone! I’m a final-year Cambridge medical student with an engineering degree, currently researching clinical AI at Harvard University under Prof. Arjun Manrai and building cool tools on the side.

AI in healthcare is moving rapidly. My goal is to build AI systems that deliver the best, most equitable care at scale, while keeping the trust of patients and clinicians.

I teach physiology and medical statistics at the University of Cambridge, and have led several societies and groups, including Health Futures, the UK’s largest student-run AI for Health conference.

In my free time I love playing volleyball 🏐, squash , badminton 🏸, and singing 🎤!

Neil Sardesai smiling in blue scrubs with a stethoscope, standing on the steps of Gordon Hall

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UKFP Explorer: a map of UK Foundation schools beside a draggable personal ranking list showing each school’s competition ratio

Foundation Atlas

A free, end-to-end tool for UK Foundation Programme applicants: an interactive map of Foundation schools and groups, a job-ranking wizard, and Monte Carlo simulations of the probability of matching to each school in a personal ranking.

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Firebase
  • Cloudflare
Four members of the NHS-Onboard team holding an oversized Anima cheque for £2,500 marked Third Place, in front of an OpenAI welcome banner

NHS-Onboard (OpenAI × Anima Health hackathon)

An AI-assisted, multilingual platform that helps people new to the NHS bring their health records with them. Third place and £2,500.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Convex
  • OpenAI
  • Vapi
  • Vercel

Team result on LinkedIn

Source on GitHub

Fee Compass: a search for procedure code X2280 showing each insurer’s checked date and the surgeon’s and anaesthetist’s fees side by side, with links to unacceptable code combinations

Fee Compass

A private fee-lookup platform for UK private practice. It normalises published fee schedules from seven insurers into one searchable database, with a multiple-code calculator that applies each insurer's billing rules.

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Firebase

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Delegates and exhibitors networking in a panelled hall with red walls and portraits at the Cambridge Health Futures Conference, with sponsor banners along the far wall

Health Futures conference

The UK’s largest student-run AI for Health conference, which I co-founded and lead as President. The inaugural conference, on 21 and 22 March 2026, brought together more than 200 attendees from around 20 universities, with 18 speakers and 6 workshops.

Conference page

Poster for the Emmanuel Medic Mentoring Scheme asking whether you are aspiring to apply to Medicine at a top university

Emmanuel Widening Access Programme for Medicine

A free mentoring scheme I co-founded and direct at Emmanuel College. It pairs state-school Year 12 Medicine applicants with a clinical medic, with webinars, personal statement feedback and a mock interview.

Medic Mentoring Scheme at Emmanuel College

Logos of Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, Costello Medical, the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Biomic Health and Lotus

HealthTech Consulting

Analyst and freelance health technology consultant. I worked as an analyst at Costello Medical across MedTech, market access and health economics, and have done freelance and panel work with Lotus Health, Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, Biomic Health and the NIHR ERIN patient involvement group.

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Understanding total pain: a scoping review and co-design of a patient and carer information leaflet

National APMJ Conference · 27 September 2026

Best Oral Presentation (1st place)

A scoping review of total pain, and a patient and carer information leaflet co-designed with Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.

Presentation and project announcement

Evaluating supervised machine learning models against existing clinical equations for estimating glomerular filtration rate in patients with chronic kidney disease

Royal Society of Medicine · 15 December 2023

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Always open to discuss projects or opportunities - please email me!

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