Ramesh Raskar
Associate Professor, MIT Director
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Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture
research group. His focus is on AI and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research
in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine
learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the  Lemelson
Award  (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009),
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004)
and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at
Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies. His work has appeared in
NYTimes, CNN, BBC, NewScientist, TechnologyReview and several technology news websites.
His invited and keynote talks include TED, Wired, TEDMED, Darpa Wait What, MIT Technology
Review, Google SolveForX and several TEDx venues. He holds 90+ US patents.