An AI/ML engineering studio · health & biomedicine · India

Decision intelligence, engineered.

DIX is an AI / ML engineering studio with deep roots in biology, biomedicine, and the software that puts them to work. We build production systems (agents, models, decision platforms) for hospitals, pharma R&D, and the strategic decisions that depend on both.

The group

Founded by Dr Hiroaki Kitano, DIX is the India studio of the lineage that built The Systems Biology Institute (Tokyo, 2000) and SBX Corporation (2011). Twenty-five years of AI, computational biology, and applied software, now compounding from a base in India.

What we do →
§01 · What we do

An AI / ML engineering shop, grounded in biology and medicine. Building the systems that put intelligence inside clinical and scientific workflows.

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Applied AI / ML

Foundation-model adaptation, multi-omics learning, causal inference, and agentic systems, built for real biomedical data, not benchmarks.

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Scientific software

Production platforms for drug discovery, clinical workflows, and translational research. Reproducible, observable, hardened by use.

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Decision systems

The surfaces, agents, and feedback loops that put a model into the hands of a clinician, a scientist, or a decision-maker, and improve with use.

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Embedded teams

Mixed teams of PhDs, engineers, and designers, working alongside the partner for the life of the system.

§02 · The lineage

Twenty-five years of AI, computational biology, and applied software, from Tokyo, to Vancouver, to a new studio in India.

SBI 2000
The Systems Biology Institute
Tokyo · founded by Dr Hiroaki Kitano

A non-profit research institute founded to advance systems biology and translate it into medicine. Home of the Nobel Turing Challenge: to build an AI that can make discoveries worthy of the Nobel by 2050. The intellectual upstream of everything that followed.

↗ sbi.jp
SBX 2011
SBX Corporation · Tokyo
The commercialisation arm of SBI

Turns SBI research into deployed solutions for drug discovery, clinical decision-making, and personalised healthcare. Has hardened the Garuda, Taxila, and Gandhara platforms across two decades of partnerships with global pharma. SBX BioSciences (Vancouver, 2020) extends the work into predictive biology.

↗ sbx-corp.com
DIX 2026
DIX Systems Labs · India
India studio of the group

A new chapter, building from India. The same lineage, the same mission, with global partners in pharma, hospitals, and health systems.

§03 · The people

Founded by Dr Hiroaki Kitano. Working from Tokyo, Vancouver, and now India.

Aditi Chowdhury
Director · Country Manager, India
Anand Muley
Technical Lead
Anupam Barat
Senior Staff Engineer
Aryan P
Junior Product Scientist
Ashish Kshatriya
Lead
Ayako Yachie, PhD
VP, MoMa unit · Group
Hiroaki Kitano, PhD
Founder · group
Janmenjoy Roy
Technical Services Lead
Mahesh Jat
Staff Engineer
Samik Ghosh, PhD
COO · group
Subhajit Daripa
Senior Engineer
Sucheendra K. Palaniappan, PhD
VP, Data Science & Engineering, Group · Head of India
Swati Chavan
Staff Analyst
Syed Ashif Jardary Al Ahmed
Technical Lead
Vikraman Karunanidhi
Data Scientist
Vishal Singh
Junior Data Scientist
Yogesh Salvi
Staff Analyst
Yukiko Matsuoka
Managing Director, group · India operations

Plus PhDs, engineers, scientists, and designers across the group in Tokyo and Vancouver. We are hiring →

§04 · Where we work

Three areas of work: hospitals, pharma R&D, and strategy.

Clinical Intelligence

Hospitals · the point of care.

Discharge, escalation, capacity, pathway adherence: the high-frequency clinical decisions whose quality compounds into outcomes. Disha, our hospital initiative, is being built for the clinician on shift.

  • Disha · hospital decision platform
  • Adverse-event early warning
  • Pathway adherence intelligence
MoMa Intelligence

Pharma R&D · inside the pipeline.

Multi-omics and molecular reasoning for compound selection, mechanism inference, trial design, and translational risk. Grounded in two decades of partnerships with global pharma.

  • Multi-omics foundation models
  • Causal mechanism mapping
  • Trial-design simulators
Decision Intelligence · PathFinder

Strategy · the boardroom.

A reasoning workbench for the decisions that shape a portfolio, a pipeline, or a five-year plan. Evidence, scenarios, and trade-offs in a single workspace.

  • PathFinder workbench
  • Scenario simulation
  • Decision audit trails
§05 · The DNA

We are systems people. Biology, agentic AI, and the software that binds them. One practice, for twenty-five years.

Most teams arriving at decision intelligence today are retrofitting language models onto problems they have not lived with. We arrive from the other direction: from mechanism, from platforms hardened over years inside SBX, from peer-reviewed work the field still cites, and from a bench of PhDs, clinicians, engineers, and designers.

Digital biology

We are digital.bio first.

Biology, biomedicine, mechanism. The institute that helped pioneer systems biology and contribute to SBML is upstream of us, so the way we model a disease, a pathway, or a clinical workflow begins with how it actually works, not with the data shape it leaves behind.

Agentic AI / ML

Built by people who built the field.

Our founder pioneered massively-parallel AI, intelligent robotics, and the Nobel Turing Challenge. Agentic systems, causal reasoners, and scientific co-pilots are not a 2024 pivot here. They are the through-line of three decades of work.

Software systems

Production-grade, hardened in pharma.

Garuda, Taxila, and Gandhara have been deployed across two decades of partnerships with global pharma R&D. Reliability, observability, reproducibility, and safety are first-class concerns built in by people who have run them at scale.

Domain depth

PhDs, clinicians, engineers, designers. In one room.

We do not split “domain” from “tech”. Our biologists code. Our engineers read papers. Our designers sit with users. The unit of work is a decision, and the team is whatever it takes to engineer it well.

§06 · Platforms

Three SBX platforms we build on: Garuda, Taxila, and Gandhara.

Garuda Orchestration

Connects heterogeneous tools, data, and analyses into reproducible scientific workflows.

Taxila Text-mining

Extracts mechanism, evidence, and contradiction from millions of papers, patents, and trial records, and feeds it back as structure.

Gandhara Learning

The AI framework (predictive models, generative agents, causal reasoners) trained on the structured biology that Garuda and Taxila produce.

§07 · Talent

PhDs, engineers, and designers. Domain experts who own the work.

Biologists and biomedicine PhDs who code. Causal and ML researchers who care more about whether a model is right than whether it scores. Engineers who have shipped at scale and lived with the consequences. Designers who treat a screen as the place where a decision is taken. If that sounds like you, write to us.

Biology / biomedicine PhDs
Mechanism, pathways, translation.
Causal & agentic ML
Inference, agents, structure.
Software engineers
Production. Safety. Scale.
Designers
Decisions as interfaces.

The group built the engine of scientific discovery. DIX builds the engine of the decisions that depend on it.

Start a conversation

Decision intelligence, engineered, compounds for decades.

We work in deeply-embedded teams with a handful of partners each year. If you operate in healthcare, pharma, or hospitals and have decisions worth engineering, write to us.

India studio
8th Floor, Plot No 19, TSIIC Units Layout,
Next to Inorbit Mall, Hitech City,
Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India.