Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group. Previously he worked as a senior research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) during 2002 to 2008. He holds 132 patents in computer vision, computational health, sensors and imaging. He received the $500K Lemelson–MIT Prize in 2016. The prize money will be used for launching REDX.io, a group platform for co-innovation in Artificial Intelligence. 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) and his TED talk for cameras to see around corners.
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Ramesh Raskar in 2013. | |
| Born | 1970 |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Government College of Engineering Pune (COEP), University of Pune Purushottam English School, Nashik |
| Known for | Shader lamps, Femtophotography, CORNAR, Computational photography, HR3D, EyeNetra StreetAddressForAll |
| Awards | TR100, Lemelson–MIT Prize, ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award 2017 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Fuchs and Greg Welch |
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.