Contact Details: Ramesh Raskar  

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Photo and Bio

Photo: Pl use for any talk announcements (with proper credits)

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rep76r4zai6boj/raskarBotnarPhoto.jpg?dl=0 

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/zw7z4rdhp0v9d4w/rameshBotnar2.png?dl=0 

        http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/rameshbw2.jpg

http://news.mit.edu/2016/ramesh-raskar-awarded-lemelson-mit-prize-0913 

http://news.mit.edu/2015/eyenetra-mobile-eye-test-prescription-virtual-reality-screens-1019 

TED: https://pi.tedcdn.com/r/pe.tedcdn.com/images/ted/2017a955b9e46bb6fdcffb4982210284d4260483_1600x1200.jpg?w=1200 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/434597432760761817  

Profile Photos: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Folder (Credit John Werner)

Short Bio for PathCheck + MIT:

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and founder of the PathCheck Foundation. His focus is on AI, privacy and digital health. PathCheck Foundation, is the world's largest non profit, privacy-preserving,  open source repo for Covid19. The foundation helps nations and states with Covid19 exposure notification and case management solutions (app, server, dashboard) and has contracts in multiple US states and nations. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009) and TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004). He holds 90+ US patents. He has worked on special research projects at Google [X],  Facebook: to launch the first health innovation team, and Apple: privacy + health, and co-founded/advised several companies.

Short Bio:

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. These interfaces span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automating 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], Apple and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.

Long Bio:

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on Machine Learning 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.

In his recent role at Facebook, he launched and led innovation teams in Digital Health, Health-tech, Satellite Imaging, TV and Bluetooth bandwidth for Connectivity, VR/AR and 'Emerging Worlds' initiative for FB.

At MIT, his co-inventions include camera to see around corners, femto-photography, automated machine learning (auto-ML), private ML, low-cost eye care devices (Netra,Catra, EyeSelfie), a novel CAT-Scan machine, motion capture (Prakash), long distance barcodes (Bokode), 3D interaction displays (BiDi screen),  new theoretical models to augment light fields (ALF) to represent wave phenomena and algebraic rank constraints for 3D displays(HR3D).

Before MIT, he co-invented techniques for AR, Computational Photography, Shader Lamps (projector-AR), composite RFID (RFIG), multi-flash non-photorealistic camera for depth edge detection, quadric transfer methods for multi-projector curved displays.

He received the Lemelson Award 2016 and ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award 2017, Technology Review TR100 award 2004 (which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35), Global Indus Technovator Award (top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide) 2003, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship award 2009 and Darpa Young Faculty award 2010. Other awards include Marr Prize honorable mention 2009, LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, US State Dept+ NIKE, 2010, Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award (first place) 2011.

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.

His co-authored books include Spatial Augmented Reality,  Computational Photography and 3D Imaging (both under preparation).

He has worked on special research projects at Google [X], Facebook, Apple and co-founded/advised several startups. He launched REDX.io, a platform for young innovators to explore AI-for-Impact. He frequently consults for dynamic organizations to conduct 'SpotProbing' exercises to spot opportunities and probe solutions.

He holds 90+ US patents.

[Personal webpage http://raskar.info] http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar

Specialties: Health-tech, Digital health, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Imaging, Optics, Displays, Sensors, Medical Imaging, RFID, Projector, VR-AR, Computation Photography, HCI, Tech-Transfer, Ventures, Startups

Invitation to give a talk

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Demo of your product in our group or in our class

Send mail to one of project leaders listed above or speak with them on phone. We do welcome them on a case by case basis.  

Staying in touch

        Website: http://raskar.info 

        Facebook: http://facebook.com/rraskar 

        LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/raskar 

        Twitter: @raskarmit, https://twitter.com/raskarmit 

        Orchid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-3224 

        Google Scholars and Arxiv papers

Online Talk Videos

Playlist of Various Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXaRPMDmoDs&list=PLAB8F8947635A6685

Lemelson Award 2016:

   Article,  Video1, Video2, Patents

Siggraph Achievement Award 2017:

   Video, Article: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/ramesh-raskar-to-receive-the-acm-siggraph-achievement-award/ 

TED.com: Trillion frames per second imaging    

    http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html

UIST Keynote 2015

    Innovating for Billions, UIST Keynote Presentation, Stanford HCI

DARPA Wait What: Extreme Computational Imaging  (Overview of our Imaging research projects)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTRWjSIqARk 

TEDMED: Eye is a window to your health  (Retinal and refraction measurements for prediction of systemic health)

    http://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=103806 

Wired  (How to use the ‘Idea Hexagon’ to invent new ideas)

    http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/start/inventing-a-new-field-in-vision 

    http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/26/ramesh-raskar 

Google SolveForX

   https://www.solveforx.com/moonshots/eyes-are-the-window-to-health-ramesh-raskar-at-tedxyouthbeaconstreet 

TEDxBoston : Eye Tests on Mobile Phones

    http://tedxboston.org/speaker/raskar 

TEDxBeaconstreet: Idea Hexagon

    http://tedxbeaconstreet.com/rameshraskar/

6Sight: Future of Imaging, Future of Photography. Open challenges presented in 2008 but still relevant a decade later.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bGVKvXG4dU 

Papers:

    http://raskar.info, Also check Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar for excellent visualization of papers 

Slides:

     http://slideshare.net/cameraculture

Material for Graduate Students and Researchers

How to invent using IDEA Hexagon:     http://tedxbeaconstreet.com/rameshraskar/

Masters thesis:  http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/raskar-thesis-guidance-2011 

How to give a talk: http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/how-to-give-a-good-talk 

Startups: http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/raskar-entrepreneurship-in-imaging-imaging-ventures-cvpr-2012

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