Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar in 2013.
Born1970
Nashik, Maharashtra, India[1]
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Government College of Engineering Pune (COEP), University of Pune
Purushottam English School, Nashik
Known forShader lamps, Femtophotography, CORNAR, Computational photography, HR3D, EyeNetra StreetAddressForAll
AwardsTR100, Lemelson–MIT Prize, ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award 2017
Scientific career
FieldsComputer scientist
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorHenry Fuchs and Greg Welch

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] Previously he worked as a senior research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) during 2002 to 2008.[5] He holds 132 patents in computer vision, computational health, sensors and imaging.[6][7] He received the $500K Lemelson–MIT Prize in 2016.[8] The prize money will be used for launching REDX.io, a group platform for co-innovation in Artificial Intelligence.[9] He is well known for inventing EyeNetra (mobile device to calculate spectacle glasses prescription), EyeCatra (cataract screening) and EyeSelfie (retinal imaging), Femto-photography (trillion frames per second imaging)[citation needed] and his TED talk for cameras to see around corners.[10]

In February 2020, Raskar and his team launched Private Kit: SafePaths, a public health tool for contact tracing for COVID-19 pandemic. He is also the Founder and Chief Scientist of PathCheck. He is a co-founder of Akasha.im which was acquired by Alphabet spin-off company Intrinsic.[11]

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  2. ^ "BBC News - Super-camera shows how light moves". Bbc.co.uk. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  3. ^ "MIT experts embark on health-mapping scheme". The Times of India. 29 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Exclusive: MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar busts biggest Startup Myths". The Business Insider. 8 February 2016. Archived from the original on 3 July 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  5. ^ "In Profile: Ramesh Raskar". MIT News. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  6. ^ Raskar, Ramesh. "Patent portfolio". USPTO. Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  7. ^ Raskar, Ramesh. "Patent Timeline" (PDF). Lemelson-MIT. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  8. ^ "Imaging Scientist and Social Impact Inventor Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize". Lemelson-MIT Prize. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  9. ^ "This Winner of a Big Foundation Prize Aims to Boost Other "Impact Inventors"". Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  10. ^ Raskar, Ramesh (26 July 2012), Imaging at a trillion frames per second, archived from the original on 16 December 2017, retrieved 24 January 2018
  11. ^ "Blog — A new chapter for Intrinsic". Intrinsic. Archived from the original on 21 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.