Ramesh Raskar to present at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit
This three day event is hosted by President Obama in Silicon Valley from June 22-24, 2016. It highlights global entrepreneurs creating access and exchange in an effort to change the world. Ramesh will present on a panel titled: Emerging technologies, Machine Learning and Virtual Reality.
MIT Team in India this July
Team members will mentor and collaborate with innovators and researchers at LVPrasad in Hyderabad and work alongside innovators at Digital Impact Square in Nashik. In both locations teams address pressing issues and deploy tech in the emerging world.
Learn more about LVPMitra in Hyderabad
HERE
Learn more about DISQ in Nashik
HERE
Anshuman Das announced as one of MedTech Boston's 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators
Anshuman, a Post Doctoral fellow and instructor of Engineering Health, was recognized for several inventions, including " a simple low-cost, clip-on device that can be integrated with smartphones to image the skin."
Tristan Swedish is awarded the NSF 
Graduate Research Fellowship
"The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering, a
nd mathematics who are pursuing a research-based Master's and doctoral degrees."
Learn more about the fellowship
HERE
Register for Advances in Imaging - a four day professional short course
During this four day short course, participants will learn the latest trends and newest technologies to develop an imaging strategy that will create competitive advantage through visual data mining techniques. This class surveys the landscape of imaging hardware, optics, sensors, and computational techniques. Use code
pefan5 to receive a 5% discount.
Learn more and register
HERE
Watch Innovating for Billions from Stanford HCI
Ramesh spoke at the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar at Stanford last month. The talk, called
Inverting Venture Models for Innovating for Billions can be viewed online
HERE.
Visit Camera Culture at CVPR and Siggraph
Siggraph - July 24 to 28 in Anaheim CA: Learn about
Occluded Imaging With Time-of-Flight Sensors: a theoretical analysis of the non-line-of-sight "looking around corners" and take the course
Capturing the Human Body: From VR, Consumer, to Health Applications. Learn more about Siggraph
HERE
CVPR - June 26 to July 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada: Researchers Achuta Kadambi, Jamie Schiel and professor Ramesh Raskar present their paper Rethinking Depth Estimation With Frequency-Domain Time-Of-Flight. Attend the tutorial Capturing the Human Body: From VR, Consumer, to Health Applications from Pratik Shah, Tristan Swedish, Mrinal Mohit and Ramesh Raskar. Learn more about CVPR HERE
Nashik, Innovation and You 
Hear from Rohan Puri about his work with the group deploying low cost health diagnostics. "Let's stop thinking independently about our own problems/goals and learn to work together to help one another...Let's create a culture of giving."
Read the full blog post
HERE
Learn more about DISQ in Nashik
HERE
Salem Karani joins our team to work on biomedical imaging
Salem Karani joins us as a technical assistant, with a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin, Reservoir Simulation and Modeling at ExxonMobil, and Medical Image Analysis research at Rice University. He hopes to influence the role technology and biomedical imaging play in surgical procedures, and to improve on objective analysis of medical conditions and procedures.
Learn more about Salem
HERE
Watch Ramesh's presentation on Accelerating Ideas at IIT
Bombay
This past January Ramesh traveled to Mumbai, India to present at the Entrepreneurship Summit. Watch his talk about Innovating for Billions and the Emerging World's work from the lab.
Learn more about the Summit
HERE
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