Dr. Vikas is an Associate Professor at JIPMER, Puducherry. His research interests and expertise lies in areas such as digital psychiatry, mood disorders, suicidology, and psychosomatic medicine. He is enthusiastic about the use of frugal, innovative technology to surmount the treatment gap in psychiatry. He is a resource faculty of the National Teacher Training Center (NTTC) in JIPMER and he regularly conducts teacher training Programs for medical teachers from all over the country.