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Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar at TED Conferences.
Born1970
Nashik, Maharashtra, India[1]
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Government College of Engineering, University of Pune
Known forShader lamps, Femto-photography, CORNAR, Computational photography, HR3D, EyeNetra
AwardsTR100, Lemelson–MIT Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer scientist
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorHenry Fuchs

Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group.[2][3][4] He holds over seventy-five patents.[5][6] He received the $500K Lemelson–MIT Prize in 2016.[7] The prize money will be used for launching REDX.io, a group platform for co-innovation.[8]

Prof. Ramesh Raskar recently held a Reddit AMA (Ask me Anything).[9][10]

Early life and education

Ramesh Raskar was born in Nashik, India and he finished his engineering education from College of Engineering, Pune.[11][12] He finished his PhD at UNC Chapel Hill.

MIT Media Lab

Raskar joined MIT Media Lab in 2007.[13] Raskar, together with others developed a computational display technology that allows observers with refractive errors, cataracts and some other eye disorders to perceive a focused image on a screen without wearing refraction-corrective spectacles. The technology uses a light field display in combination with customized filtering algorithms that pre-distort the presented content for the observer.[14][15]

His lab produced a number of extreme highspeed pictures using a femto-camera that took images at around one-trillion frames per second.[16] They have also developed a camera to see around corners using bursts of laser light.[17]

Juliett Fiss has covered his role as the catalyst behind the Siggraph NEXT program at Siggraph 2015 in Los Angeles.[18]

Awards and Fellowships

  • TR100 Award from Technology Review (recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35)[19]
  • The Global Indus Technovator Award (instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide)[20]
  • MIT Sloan Research Fellowship[21]
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award[22][23][24]
  • LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, US State Dept and NIKE[25][26]
  • Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project Award (first place)[27]
  • Lemelson-MIT Prize (500,000$)[28][29]

References

  1. ^ "MIT and the shortcut to Nirvana". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  2. ^ "BBC News - Super-camera shows how light moves". Bbc.co.uk. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  3. ^ "MIT experts embark on health-mapping scheme". Times of India. Aug 29, 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Exclusive: MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar busts biggest Startup Myths". The Business Insider. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  5. ^ Raskar, Ramesh. "Patent portfolio". USPTO.
  6. ^ Raskar, Ramesh. "Patent Timeline" (PDF). Lemelson-MIT.
  7. ^ "Imaging Scientist and Social Impact Inventor Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize". Lemelson-MIT Prize.
  8. ^ "This Winner of a Big Foundation Prize Aims to Boost Other "Impact Inventors"".
  9. ^ "REDDIT AMA with Prof. Ramesh Raskar – Holder of more than 50 patents". globalexpressnews.com. 2015-11-27. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
  10. ^ "I am Dr. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. You might know me from the trillion frames-per-second camera, EyeNetra, innovation in India, or computational photography research. AMA!". reddit.com. 2015-11-28. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  11. ^ http://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929
  12. ^ "MIT and the shortcut to Nirvana". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  13. ^ "In Profile: Ramesh Raskar". MIT News. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  14. ^ Vitor F. Pamplona, Manuel M. Oliveira, Daniel G. Aliaga, Ramesh Raskar (2012). "Tailored Displays to Compensate for Visual Aberrations". ACM Transactions on Graphics. ACM SIGGRAPH 2012. pp. 87:1–12. Retrieved 2016-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ Fu-Chung Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian A. Barsky, Ramesh Raskar (July 2014). "Eyeglasses-free display: towards correcting visual aberrations with computational light field displays". ACM Transactions on Graphics – Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2014. 33 (4, Article No. 59). doi:10.1145/2601097.2601122. Retrieved 2016-09-11.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Ramesh Raskar | Profile on". Ted.com. doi:10.1038/ncomms1747. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  17. ^ Jones, Orion (2011-09-30). "Ramesh Raskar: An Immigrant's Story | IdeaFeed". Big Think. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  18. ^ "What is Siggraph NEXT". 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  19. ^ "MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar busts biggest Startup Myths". Business Insider India. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  20. ^ "Technovator Awards". MIT.
  21. ^ "Six junior faculty named Sloan Research Fellows". MIT News. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  22. ^ "DARPA Young Faculty Award". Northeastern University.
  23. ^ "Awards Info". DARPA. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  24. ^ "List of DARPA Award recipients" (PDF). Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  25. ^ "Innovating for Billions: Inverting the Research and Funding Models". Stanford University. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  26. ^ "Intro of Dr Raskar". GES. Global Entrepreneur sUMMIT. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  27. ^ "Ramesh Raskar Intro". Tata Center at MIT. Tata Center for Technology and Design. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  28. ^ "Inverting the Venture Model, Ramesh Raskar's REDX platform- Congrats to Ramesh Raskar for receiving the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Invention-Imaging scientist and inventor sets sights on launching peer-to-peer invention platforms for global impact". John Werner. The Medium. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  29. ^ "Ramesh Raskar Inventor of Femto-photography; Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize". Lemelson MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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