Ramesh Raskar — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the $500K Lemelson–MIT Prize in 2016.
Serves as Associate Director of MIT Media Lab and Associate Professor at MIT.
Founder and Chief Scientist of PathCheck and co-founder of Akasha.im, which was acquired by Alphabet spin-off company Intrinsic.
Co-invented femto-photography, cameras to see around corners, automated machine learning (auto-ML), and low-cost eye care devices (EyeNetra, EyeCatra, EyeSelfie).
Holds over 125 US patents in computer vision, computational health, sensors, and imaging.
Earned his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill in 2002 and completed engineering education from College of Engineering, Pune.

Biography

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab. He directs the Camera Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on building world-scale interfaces between societal and cyber-physical systems. His academic journey includes a PhD from UNC Chapel Hill in 2002 and engineering education from the College of Engineering, Pune.