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{{Infobox person

| birth_name = Bhargav Sri Prakash

| image = Bhargav Sri Prakash, June 2013.jpg

| caption = Bhargav Sri Prakash addressing the Bloomberg Technology Summit Next Big Thing

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1977|4|20}}

| birth_place = {{nowrap|Chennai, India}}

| occupation = Investor
Entrepreneur
Engineer

| education = College of Engineering, Guindy
College of Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

| boards = FriendsLearn
Reciprocity Foundation
Nirmana Investments
{{cite web|url=https://www.indiancompany.info/director/02158961/|publisher=Indian Company Info|date=24 May 2017|title=Board positions|author=Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India}}

| mother = Sheila Sri Prakash

}}

Bhargav Sri Prakash (born 7 April 1977) is an Indian-American engineer, entrepreneur, and inventor.{{cite web|url=https://www.sciastra.com/blog/bhargav-sri-prakash-founder-of-friendslearn/|date=23 September 2023|author=Team SciAstra|title=Bhargav Sri Prakash: Founder of FriendsLearn| publisher=-SciAstra }}{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/startups/trend-tracking/indian-gets-worlds-first-digital-vaccine-patent/articleshow/92073578.cms|title=Indian gets world's first digital vaccine patent|work=The Times of India|author=Rupali Mukherjee|date=8 June 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/business-tech/how-ai-aided-digital-vaccines-can-be-a-game-changer/article65389614.ece | title=How AI-aided 'digital vaccines' can be a game-changer | date=8 May 2022|publisher=The Hindu Business Line|author=M Ramesh}}{{cite web|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/health/article/indian-health-tech-pioneer-develops-the-worlds-first-digital-vaccine-candidate-for-covid/630113|publisher=Times Now|date=31 July 2020|title=Indian health-tech pioneer develops the world's first digital vaccine candidate for COVID-19}}

Biography

He is the founder of FriendsLearn{{cite web|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/healthy-lifestyle-choices-fooya-helps-change-kids-behaviour-towards-food-in-a-fun-way/594725/|author=Sushila Ravindranath|publisher=Financial Express|date=21 March 2017|title=Healthy lifestyle choices: Fooya helps change kids' behaviour towards food in a fun way}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/play-and-learn/article4500838.ece|author=Udhav Naig|work=The Hindu|date=12 March 2013|title=Play and Learn}} collaborating with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.{{cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/january/healthy-gaming.html|author=Scottie Barsotti|date=2 January 2019|title=Can Kids Game Their Way to Better Health?|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cmu.edu/heinz/digital-vaccine-project/index.html|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University|title=CMU Digital Vaccine Project|author=Admin}} This involves "digital vaccines" which use smartphone technology.{{cite web|url=https://digitalhealth.med.brown.edu/news/2020-12-04/digital-vaccines|date=4 December 2020|title=Digital Vaccines for COVID-19 and Beyond|author=Katie Barry|publisher=Brown University The Warren Alpert Medical School Center for Digital Health|access-date=1 December 2023|archive-date=9 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009121825/https://digitalhealth.med.brown.edu/news/2020-12-04/digital-vaccines|url-status=bot: unknown}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ceYbkT-1Y|date=3 March 2017|title=Television feature about the developer of Fooya|publisher=CNBC-TV18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2013/05/31/friendslearn-shows-food-fights-can-be.html?page=all|title=FriendsLearn Show Food Fights can be Educational|publisher=Silicon Valley American City Business Journals|date = 31 May 2013|author=Cromwell Schubarth}}{{cite web|url=https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2022/06/24/digital-vaccines-can-this-ai-tool-save-us-from-ourselves/|publisher=HealthcareIT Today|author=Dr Neecey Hudson|date=24 June 2022|title=Digital Vaccines – Can This AI Tool Save Us from Ourselves?}}

He has been involved in developing digital vaccines.{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/india-led-team-gets-award-for-work-on-digital-vaccines/article68509644.ece | title=India-led team gets award for work on digital vaccines | newspaper=The Hindu | date=10 August 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.globalindian.com/story/entrepreneur/bhargav-sri-prakash-training-the-brain-through-the-metaverse-with-digital-vaccines/ |publisher=Global Indian| title=Bhargav Sri Prakash: Preventing diseases with digital vaccines}}{{cite web | url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/290448/patent-for-digital-vaccines-reduce-disease-diabetes-hypertension-hospitalisation-in-children/ | title=Indian with World's 1st Patent for 'Digital Vaccines' for Kids Explains How They Work | date=10 July 2022 |publisher=The Better India}}{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/world/indian-start-up-resists-boston-firms-bid-to-trademark-digital-vaccines-4312261.html|author=Nikhila Natarajan|date=25 January 2018|publisher=Firstpost|title=Indian startup resists Boston firm's bid to trademark Digital Vaccines}}

Sri Prakash was awarded the world's first patent for a digital vaccine by the USPTO{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/indian-entrepreneur-gets-us-patent-for-digital-vaccine/article65381532.ece|date=4 May 2022|author=M Ramesh|publisher=The Hindu Business Line|title=Indian entrepreneur gets US patent for digital vaccine}}{{cite web|url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/digital-vaccine-check-out-how-this-app-can-help-you-fight-covid-19-5697311.html|publisher=Moneycontrol|author=Priyanka Sahay|title=Digital vaccine: Check out how this app can help you fight COVID-19|date=13 August 2020}}{{cite web | url=https://idsa.in/idsacomments/Digital-Vaccines-300622 | title=Digital Vaccines: Web 3.0 Solutions for Chronic Diseases; Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses }}{{cite web | url=https://government.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital-india/indias-digital-vaccine-that-prevents-real-world-health-issues-through-metaverse-gets-first-global-patent/92074654 | title=India's 'digital vaccine' that prevents real world health issues through metaverse gets first global patent - ET Government|publisher=The Economic Times|author=Rupali Mukherjee|date=8 June 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://indiaai.gov.in/article/can-ai-powered-digital-vaccines-open-the-door-for-innovation | title=Can AI-powered' Digital Vaccines' open the door for innovation?|author=Anjali Raja K|date=5 May 2022}}

World Bank's International Finance Corporation and Financial Times awarded FriendsLearn and Carnegie Mellon University for, to quote, "deep tech ideas that may not yet meet the financial criteria of the core categories".{{cite web | url=https://pressroom.ifc.org/all/pages/PressDetail.aspx?ID=27250 | title=2022 FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards Winners Announced }}{{cite web | url=https://transformationalbusiness.live.ft.com/page/2380759/2022-winners | title=FT/IFC Transformational Business Conference and Awards 2022 }}{{cite web|url=https://transformationalbusiness.live.ft.com/page/2146059/register-for-on-demand|title=2022 Transformational Business Awards Live Stream (recording 42 min 15 sec)|publisher=Financial Times|author=FTLive|date=26 October 2022}}

Early life and education

Prakash was born in Chennai in India.{{cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/a-chennai-based-companys-game-app-is-teaching-kids-how-to-eat-healthy-and-stay-fit-3508553.html|title=A Chennai-based Company's Game App is Teaching Kids How to Eat Healthy and Stay Fit|publisher=Network18 Group|date=5 March 2021}} His mother is Sheila Sri Prakash and his father is M V. Sri Prakash. He gained an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy of Anna University {{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/play-and-learn/article4500838.ece|title=Play and learn|first=Udhav|last=Naig|newspaper=The Hindu |date=12 March 2013|publisher=|via=www.thehindu.com}}

He went on to attend graduate school at the College of Engineering of the University of Michigan{{cite web|url=http://tmd.pub.umich.edu/news/michigan-entrepreneurs-design-innovative-facebook-game?page=0,0|title=Fooya|date=19 February 2013|publisher=University of Michigan Ann Arbor}} in Ann Arbor and graduated with a master's degree in Automotive Engineering in 2000.{{cite web|url=https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/news/search-news/engineering-alum-promotes-childhood-health-education-through-dig.html|date=14 January 2020|author=Josephine Talin|publisher=University of Michigan Center for South Asian Studies|title=Alumni spotlight: Engineering alum promotes childhood health education through digital vaccines}}{{cite web|url=http://www.michigandaily.com/news/michigan-entrepreneurs-design-innovative-facebook-game|title=Michigan Entrepreneurs Design Innovative Facebook Game|publisher=The Michigan Daily|date=19 February 2013}}. He is listed among notable alumni of the College of Engineering, Guindy{{cite web|url=https://www.aaceg.org/page/Notable-Alumni.dz|publisher=Alumni Association of College of Engineering Guindy|author=Admin|title=Notable Alumni of CEG}}

Career

He has worked on the evolution of gamification,{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/news/at-demo-entrepreneurs-used-game-dynamics-to-tackle-climate-change-and-obesity|author=Christina Farr|date=20 April 2012|publisher=The Next Web|title=At DEMO, entrepreneurs used game dynamics to tackle climate change and obesity}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gamification.co/2013/03/22/fooya-the-crowdfunded-game-from-india-to-teach-healthy-eating/|date=22 March 2013|author=Alex Landa|title=Fooya, the Crowdfunded Game from India to Teach Healthy Eating|work=Gamification Co |publisher=Gamification.co}} metaverse{{cite web|url=https://ijclp.com/intellectual-property-rights-in-the-metaverse/|work=Indian Journal of Corporate Law & Policy|author=Ashish Deshmukh|date=11 September 2022|title=Intellectual Property Rights in the Metaverse}} and artificial intelligence at the University of Michigan{{cite web | url=https://interestingengineering.com/culture/the-metaverse-is-taking-over-the-physical-world | title=What Exactly is the Metaverse and How is It Challenging Reality? | date=6 October 2021 }}

Sri Prakash is the Founder and serves as the CEO and Chief of Product at FriendsLearn, which he started in 2011, as a fellow of the Kauffman Foundation.{{cite web | url=https://www.gamification.co/2013/03/22/fooya-the-crowdfunded-game-from-india-to-teach-healthy-eating/ | title=Fooya, the Crowdfunded Game from India to Teach Healthy Eating | work=Gamification Co | date=22 March 2013 | last1=Landa | first1=Alex }} FriendsLearn is a research partner of Carnegie Mellon University Digital Vaccine Project{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210210142128.htm|title=Mobile game that uses implicit learning improved children's short-term food choices|author=Carnegie Mellon University|date=10 February 2021|publisher=ScienceDaily}}

He started his first company, CADcorporation, in the year 1999, when he was enrolled as an international graduate student at the University of Michigan to commercialize his graduate research in math-based simulations for design optimization of automotive powertrain systems. The company was incubated by the eLab at the Ross School of Business and emerged from a class taught by Prof Joshua Coval{{cite web| url=http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/50779/2000-fall-dividend.pdf;jsessionid=0D1251743ACDE510344883CBD0981714?sequence=1|publisher=University of Michigan Business School, Dividend|title=From Idea to IPO in 14 Weeks|date=Fall 2000}}

After selling CADcorporation, he founded Vmerse in 2005, which was the first to market{{cite web|url=http://www.admissions.umich.edu:80/vmerse/|publisher=University of Michigan, Ann Arbor|date=29 August 2008|title=Vmerse|author=UM Office of Undergraduate Admissions|access-date=29 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829161542/http://www.admissions.umich.edu/vmerse/|archive-date=29 August 2008|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ncid.umich.edu/events/Spencer.ppt|publisher=University of Michigan, Ann Arbor|date=10 March 2008|title=Vmerse|author=Ted Spencer|access-date=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426150922/http://www.ncid.umich.edu/events/Spencer.ppt|archive-date=26 April 2014|url-status=dead}} with a gamified 3D virtual reality simulation platform for college recruiting and alumni relations.{{cite web|url=http://ceo.umich.edu/2009conference/confirmed_presentation.html|title=Center for Educational Outreach Conference Agenda|year=2009|publisher=Center for Educational Outreach at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor|access-date=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225841/http://ceo.umich.edu/2009conference/confirmed_presentation.html|archive-date=2 December 2013|url-status=dead}} He sold Vmerse in 2009.

In 2008, he co founded a global macro trading and real estate securities investment fund called Nirmana Investments – and served as a managing director.{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/healthy-lifestyle-choices-fooya-helps-change-kids-behaviour-towards-food-in-a-fun-way/594725/|title=Healthy lifestyle choices: Fooya helps change kids' behaviour towards food in a fun way|date=20 March 2017|publisher=Financial Express|author=Sushila Ravindranath}}

He was an entrepreneur fellow of the Kauffman Foundation in 2011, to incubate entrepreneurial models for planetary impact that can address education, health issues, and agriculture. During this time he founded FriendsLearn.{{cite web|url=http://www.entrepreneurship.org/Kauffman-Labs/Labs-Inaugural-Class/Friends-Learn.aspx|title=Kauffman Foundation Education Ventures Fellows|access-date=18 July 2023|archive-date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121194235/https://www.entrepreneurship.org/Kauffman-Labs/Labs-Inaugural-Class/Friends-Learn.aspx|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Kauffman-Labs.aspx|date=19 June 2013|publisher=Kauffman Foundation|title=Kauffman Labs Entrepreneur Fellows|author=Kauffman Labs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121194235/https://www.entrepreneurship.org/Kauffman-Labs/Labs-Inaugural-Class/Friends-Learn.aspx|archive-date=21 November 2013 }}{{cite web|url=https://xconomy.com/national/2011/02/10/kauffman-labs-inaugural-incubator-program-brings-in-education-focused-entrepreneurs-from-massachusetts-michigan-and-bay-area/|author=Erin Kutz|date=10 February 2011|title=Kauffman Labs Brings In Education-Focused Entrepreneurs from Massachusetts, Michigan, and Bay Area|work=Xconomy }}

He is a mentor to other founders from India who are accepted by NASSCOM in to the deep tech club.{{cite web|url=https://nasscom.in/deeptech/deeptechclub/mentor.php|publisher=NASSCOM|date=1 January 2024|title=Meet the Mentors|author=NASSCOM Deeptech Club}}

Major Works

He is the Chief Product Officer of fooya! which produces a mHealth App for children developed by FriendsLearn, to lower their risk of lifestyle diseases{{cite journal|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32172651/|title=Use of educational technologies in the promotion of children's cardiovascular health: a systematic review|date=14 March 2020|journal=Global Health Promotion|author=Francisca Bertilia Chaves Costa |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=32–41 |doi=10.1177/1757975920909119 |pmid=32172651 |s2cid=212729023 |display-authors=et al}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.iproc.org/2018/2/e11790|publisher=Journal of Medical Internet Research iProceedings Vol 4, No 2 (2018): CHC18|date= 17 September 2018| doi=10.2196/15717 | volume=4| title=Mobile Game–Based Digital Vaccine for Reducing Risk of Lifestyle Diseases | year=2018| author= Yi-Chin Kato Lin |journal=Iproceedings |issue=2 |pages=e11790 |pmid=33206054 |pmc=7710449 |display-authors=et al |doi-access=free }} {{cite journal|title=Serious games and eating behaviors: A systematic review of the last 5 years (2018–2022)|author=Pierpaolo Limone |display-authors=et al|journal=Frontiers in Nutrition|date=8 September 2022|volume=9 |doi=10.3389/fnut.2022.978793 |pmid=36159464 |pmc=9493252 |doi-access=free }} through the underlying gamified implicit learning and neurocognitive computing digital vaccine platform.{{cite web|url=https://ccp.jhu.edu/2021/03/01/game-helps-indian-children-choose-healthier-foods-2/|author=Stephanie Desmon|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health|date=1 March 2021|title=Video Game Helps Indian Children Choose Healthier Foods}}{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/now-digital-vaccines-to-help-promote-healthy-eating-in-kids/articleshow/80010923.cms|title=Now 'digital vaccines' to help promote healthy eating in kids|author=Rupali Mukherjee|date=29 December 2020|work=The Times of India}}{{cite web | url=https://www.thehindu.com/children/fooya-app-inculcates-healthy-diets-among-children/article31099233.ece|title=Fooya! app, now in Indian schools, inculcates healthy diets among children|author=Sweta Akundi|date=18 March 2020|work=The Hindu}}

The US Department of State's EducationUSA awarded his startup company a contract to design and develop a gamified simulation to recruit prospective international students from around the globe.{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2013/05/31/friendslearn-shows-food-fights-can-be.html?page=all|title=FriendsLearn Show Food Fights can be Educational|publisher=Silicon Valley American City Business Journals|date = 31 May 2013|author=Cromwell Schubarth}}{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2012/04/18/friendslearn-teaches-you-through-social-and-mobile-games/|title=FriendsLearn teaches you through social and mobile games|author=Dean Takahashi|publisher=Venturebeat|date=20 April 2012}}{{cite web | url=https://www.edtechdigest.com/2012/02/06/interview-you-and-your-friendslearn/ | title=Interview | You and Your FriendsLearn | date=7 February 2012 }} This framework - "Your 5 Steps to US Study" - was launched for distribution via DVD-Rom in 2011 and then as downloadable App via facebook in 2012.

Personal life

Prakash was a former junior national tennis champion in India and represented India in international tournaments. He garnered a career high ranking of 761 in the International Tennis Federation's world rankings.{{cite web|url=https://www.sciastra.com/blog/bhargav-sri-prakash-founder-of-friendslearn/|publisher=SciAstra|date=23 September 2023|title=Bhargav Sri Prakash: Founder of FriendsLearn|author=Editor}}{{cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/indias-digital-vaccine-that-prevents-real-issues-through-metavere-gets-patent-11654679262648.html|publisher=Mint|date=8 June 2022|author=Rupali Mukherjee|title=India's digital vaccine that prevents real (health) issues}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/sri-prakash-bhargav/800195509/ind/vt/s/|date=2014|publisher=International Tennis Federation|title=Bhargav Sri Prakash Player Profile}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topiclist/Indian-male-tennis-players|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150106121430/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topiclist/Indian-male-tennis-players|work=Times of India|title=India's Best Mens Tennis Players through History|archive-date=6 January 2015|url-status=dead}} During his college years he had enrolled in the Birla Institute of Technology and Science but dropped out in his first semester and returned to Chennai to continue to play competitive tennis.{{cite news|publisher=Dina Thanthi|date=28 August 2013|title=A Journey for Health}}