Ramesh Raskar Biography

Ramesh Raskar is an Indian-American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur best known for his contributions to computational photography. He is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab who heads the Camera Culture research group. Raskar completed his undergraduate studies in electronics engineering in India before earning a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also worked as a researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. He was a visiting professor at Dartmouth College before joining the MIT Media Lab faculty in 2008. Raskar has made significant contributions to the development of computational photography. This field combines photography with computer graphics, image processing, and computer vision. He has invented several technologies that have had a major impact in this area, including femto-photography, which captures images at a trillion frames per second, and motion amplification, which can visualize subtle motions in videos that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. In addition to his research work, Raskar is also an entrepreneur and has co-founded several startups, including EyeNetra, which provides affordable eye exams using a smartphone app, and PathAI, which uses machine learning to improve the accuracy of pathology diagnoses. He received numerous awards for his work, including the MIT Inventor of the Year award in 2016.

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