Shruti Viji
Shruti Vij is the Director of Innovation and AI Strategy at RDU IT, leading the shift from incremental optimization to horizon oriented solutions and embedding innovation as a strategic capability to shape the enterprise roadmap. Partnering across science, technology, and the business, she designs and scales AI enabled platforms and operating models that accelerate discovery, de risk decision making, and unlock new value at both portfolio and program levels while preparing organizations for what’s next.
She brings a cross functional trajectory spanning engineering, imaging, product strategy, and applied data science across the value chain. Previously, she developed clinical decision support and digital health solutions at Philips Healthcare, applied product strategy to AI driven solutions at PerigonAI and led data science for cell therapy process development at Takeda. Her rigorous academic foundation and hands on clinical translational research coupled with business acumen shaped by growing up in a family owned enterprise equip her to lead change with a distinctive, outcomes focused perspective.