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India-born innovator and scientist Ramesh
Raskar has won the prestigious 2016 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
He is an
associate professor at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT’s) Media Lab.
He is known for
his co-invention of an ultra-fast imaging camera that can see around corners,
low-cost eye-care solutions.
It also enables
users to read the first few pages of a book without opening the cover.
About Ramesh
Raskar:
a) He was born in Nashik,
Maharashtra. He is associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), US.
b) He is head of the MIT Media
Lab’s Camera Culture research group. He had finished his engineering education
from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) and had completed his PhD at UNC
Chapel Hill.
c) He holds over 75 patents and
has written more than 120 reviewed publications.
About Lemelson-MIT
Prize:
i) The annual Lemelson-MIT prize
is administered by the School of Engineering at the MIT.
ii) It was endowed in 1994 by
Jerome H. Lemelson The award honours US inventors who are mid-career and trying
to improve the world through science and technology.
iii) The winner receives US$
500000 US, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the US.
