Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar was born in Nashik, India and he finished his engineering education from College of Engineering, Pune.{{Cite web | url=http://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929 | title=In Profile: Ramesh Raskar | date=29 September 2011 | access-date=28 November 2015 | archive-date=8 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208035613/http://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929 | url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=MIT and the shortcut to Nirvana|url=http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/12/18/mit-and-the-shortcut-to-nirvana/|access-date=12 September 2016|agency=The Boston Globe|archive-date=24 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024070915/http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/12/18/mit-and-the-shortcut-to-nirvana/|url-status=live}} He finished his PhD at UNC Chapel Hill in 2002.{{cite news|title=In Profile: Ramesh Raskar|url=https://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929|access-date=12 September 2016|agency=MIT News|archive-date=17 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917135043/http://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Ramesh Raskar to give 2019 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony keynote address |url=https://www.unc.edu/posts/2019/03/04/ramesh-raskar-to-give-2019-doctoral-hooding-ceremony-keynote-address/ |website=UNC |access-date=5 January 2023 |date=4 March 2019 |archive-date=5 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105104722/https://www.unc.edu/posts/2019/03/04/ramesh-raskar-to-give-2019-doctoral-hooding-ceremony-keynote-address/ |url-status=live }}

Raskar joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2002.{{cite news|title=In Profile: Ramesh Raskar|url=https://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929|access-date=12 September 2016|agency=MIT News|archive-date=17 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917135043/http://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929|url-status=live}} His significant contribution in computer vision and imaging domain led him to win 'TR 100' in 2004, 'The Global Indus Technovator Award' in 2004 respectively.{{cite news|title=MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar busts biggest Startup Myths|url=http://www.businessinsider.in/Exclusive-MIT-Professor-RameshRaskar-busts-biggest-Startup-Myths/articleshow/50903305.cms|access-date=12 September 2016|publisher=Business Insider India|archive-date=3 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703132826/http://www.businessinsider.in/exclusive-mit-professor-rameshraskar-busts-biggest-startup-myths/articleshow/50903305.cms|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Technovator Awards|url=http://web.mit.edu/technovators/|agency=MIT|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202119/http://web.mit.edu/technovators/|url-status=live}}

Raskar joined MIT Media Lab in 2008.{{cite news|title=In Profile: Ramesh Raskar|url=https://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929|access-date=12 September 2016|agency=MIT News|archive-date=17 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917135043/http://news.mit.edu/2011/profile-raskar-0929|url-status=live}} Raskar, together with others developed a computational display technology that allows observers with refractive errors, cataracts and some other eye disorders to perceive a focused image on a screen without wearing refraction-corrective spectacles. The technology uses a light field display in combination with customized filtering algorithms that pre-distort the presented content for the observer.{{cite journal |title=Tailored Displays to Compensate for Visual Aberrations |journal=ACM Transactions on Graphics|volume=31|issue=4|pages=1–12|doi=10.1145/2185520.2185577|year=2012|last1=Pamplona|first1=Vitor F.|last2=Oliveira|first2=Manuel M.|last3=Aliaga|first3=Daniel G.|last4=Raskar|first4=Ramesh|s2cid=914854|hdl=1721.1/81170|hdl-access=free}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1145/2601097.2601122|title=Eyeglasses-free display|journal=ACM Transactions on Graphics|volume=33|issue=4|pages=1–12|year=2014|last1=Huang|first1=Fu-Chung|last2=Wetzstein|first2=Gordon|last3=Barsky|first3=Brian A.|last4=Raskar|first4=Ramesh|hdl=1721.1/92749|s2cid=12347886|hdl-access=free}}

His lab produced a number of extreme highspeed pictures using a femto-camera that took images at around one-trillion frames per second.{{cite web |url=http://www.ted.com/speakers/ramesh_raskar.html |title=Ramesh Raskar | Profile on |publisher=Ted.com |access-date=2013-08-02 |archive-date=2 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502132959/http://www.ted.com/speakers/ramesh_raskar.html |url-status=live }} They have also developed a camera to see around corners using bursts of laser light.{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Orion |url=http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/ramesh-raskar-an-immigrants-story |title=Ramesh Raskar: An Immigrant's Story | IdeaFeed |publisher=Big Think |date=2011-09-30 |access-date=2013-08-02 |archive-date=31 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731042726/http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/ramesh-raskar-an-immigrants-story |url-status=live }}

Juliett Fiss has covered his role as the catalyst behind the Siggraph NEXT program at Siggraph 2015 in Los Angeles.{{cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/11_JUiIG5CON-FmeZuw9g807Ee1QzYoFUFqTgSK4acvE/pub |title=What is Siggraph NEXT |date=1970-01-01 |access-date=2013-10-30 |archive-date=5 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105194347/https://docs.google.com/document/d/11_JUiIG5CON-FmeZuw9g807Ee1QzYoFUFqTgSK4acvE/pub |url-status=live }}

Raskar was awarded the "2017 CG Achievement Award" by ACM SIGGRAPH for his potential contribution in computational photography and light transport and their applications for social impact.{{cite news|title= 2017 CG Achievement Award: Ramesh Raskar.|url= http://www.siggraph.org/participate/awards/2017-cg-achievement-award-ramesh-raskar|access-date= 13 July 2017|archive-date= 30 June 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170630040911/http://www.siggraph.org/participate/awards/2017-cg-achievement-award-ramesh-raskar|url-status= live}}

He has been influential in deploying research ideas in the real world. Startups created by members of his CameraCulture research group include [http://EyeNetra.com EyeNetra.com] (ophthalmic tests), [https://www.photoneo.com/ Photoneo] (high speed 3D sensing), [https://www.labbyinc.com/ Labby] (AI for food testing), [https://www.lumiidisplay.com/ Lumii] (novel printing for 3D imagery), LensBricks (computer vision with computational imaging), [http://tesseract.in/ Tesseract] (personalized display) and more. Non-profits emerging from his efforts include [http://REDX.io REDX.io] (AI for Social Impact), MIT Emerging Worlds, [http://lvpmitra.com LVP-MITra], REDX-WeSchool, [https://DigitalImpactSquare.com DigitalImpactSquare] and more.

He serves on the Expert Commission of $3.5 Billion Botnar Fondation as AI and Health expert.

File:JJ Abrams and Ramesh Raskar.jpg and Ramesh Raskar at MIT Media Lab, 2012]]

Raskar has presented a series of talks and workshops on innovation processes.

They include his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEJF8o8uqo Idea Hexagon], [https://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/how-to-give-a-good-talk How to give an engaging talk], [https://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/raskar-thesis-guidance-2011 How to prepare for a thesis], [http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/ForStudents/RaskarDec10outlineOfTechnicalPaper.doc How to write a paper] and the [https://medium.com/@vidyangispatil/redx-spot-a-process-for-building-innovative-horizontals-that-empower-bold-solutions-fdc1c438acba Spot-Probe method] for problem–solution identification. In 2019, he presented doctoral hooding commencement speech at UNC Chapel Hill.{{Citation|last=UNC-Chapel Hill|title=Ramesh Raskar {{!}} 2019 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Keynote Address {{!}} UNC-Chapel Hill|date=2019-05-17|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHV2WR7nCQk|access-date=2019-05-18|archive-date=24 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724124146/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHV2WR7nCQk|url-status=live}}

Key ideas from his [https://www.lemelson.org/a-conversation-with-ramesh-raskar/ interview with Lemelson Foundation] are as follows.

• Cleverness alone is not enough to become a good inventor
• Inventor's job is to think in an anti-disciplinary manner – look beyond disciplines
• The true power of an inventor is less about expertise on one subject, but rather the ability to ask questions no one else is asking and follow the trail of answers as they are revealed.
• The "spot probe" methodology is something every inventor needs to master. It is a continual cycle: Ask a lot of questions. Spot a lot of problems. Articulate those problems. Then probe their potential solutions.
• Solving big societal problems requires both passion and skill, but those qualities exist on two different axes. The hardest problems to work on are found where those two axes intersect – where passion meets skill.
• To make a grand difference, ensure the problem you're trying to solve is the right problem. Solve the right problems at the right time.
• Invention is all about people. If you don't work with the right people you don't get inspired to work in the right way.
• Difference between problem-solving and invention – working in isolation can just solve a problem, while to invent you need give and take.

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See the world in a new or different way, and great things will happen. The next generation of young inventors will then spot a whole new set of problems and probe for solutions that no one can begin to predict.{{cite web |url=http://www.lemelson.org/resources/success-stories/conversation-ramesh-raskar |title=A Conversation with Ramesh Raskar |date=2017-04-05 |access-date=2017-04-25 |archive-date=27 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427004004/http://www.lemelson.org/resources/success-stories/conversation-ramesh-raskar |url-status=live }}

In his recent talk, Raskar mentioned, "Instead of apps, let’s think about DAPS (Digital Applications for Physical Services) Or DOPS. If you want to make it broader, we can have DOPS (Digital Opportunities for Physical Services). With DOPS and DAPS we have an opportunity to impact the physical world in areas where we simply couldn’t before".{{cite web |url= http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/innovating-for-billions-ramesh-raskars-uist-keynote |title= How to impact on billions of lives through disruptive innovations |access-date= 4 July 2017 |archive-date= 29 August 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160829025718/http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/innovating-for-billions-ramesh-raskars-uist-keynote/ |url-status= live }}

Raskar's philosophy on 'Learn, Think and Apply' encourages him to form REDX.io platform. REDX's goal is to promote peer to peer learning, peer to peer problem solving in more systematic ways! REDX labs are working on following keywords: Wearables, Agriculture, Camera, Health, Unorganized Sector, Satellite Imaging, Machine Learning, Mobile, Social Graph, Crowd Sourcing, Sensors. They are physical lab with very well-funded and innovators working with critical problems. REDX Mumbai is funded by TATA trust. DISQ in Nashik funded by TCS foundations, a multibillion-dollar lab. REDX lab in Brazil is well funded by local trust. REDX clubs operate as non-profit organizations. Innovators and their solutions have the opportunity to interact with other REDX clubs and work in REDX labs worldwide. The onboarding process to become a REDX club includes a 10-week course, appointing a board and an academic advisor, establishing a community coalition, and recruiting innovators and mentors. Clubs receive certification directly from Dr.Raskar.{{cite news|title=This Winner of a Big Foundation Prize Aims to Boost Other "Impact Inventors"|url=http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/9/21/this-winner-of-a-big-foundation-prize-aims-to-boost-other-im.html|access-date=23 September 2016|archive-date=22 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922135731/http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/9/21/this-winner-of-a-big-foundation-prize-aims-to-boost-other-im.html|url-status=live}}

• TR100 Award from Technology Review (recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35){{cite news|title=MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar busts biggest Startup Myths|url=http://www.businessinsider.in/Exclusive-MIT-Professor-RameshRaskar-busts-biggest-Startup-Myths/articleshow/50903305.cms|access-date=12 September 2016|publisher=Business Insider India|archive-date=3 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703132826/http://www.businessinsider.in/exclusive-mit-professor-rameshraskar-busts-biggest-startup-myths/articleshow/50903305.cms|url-status=live}}
• The Global Indus Technovator Award (instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide){{cite news|title=Technovator Awards|url=http://web.mit.edu/technovators/|agency=MIT|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202119/http://web.mit.edu/technovators/|url-status=live}}
• MIT Sloan Research Fellowship{{cite web|title=Six junior faculty named Sloan Research Fellows|url=https://news.mit.edu/2009/sloan-fellows-0217|website=MIT News|date=17 February 2009 |access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=3 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203225127/http://news.mit.edu/2009/sloan-fellows-0217|url-status=live}}
• DARPA Young Faculty Award{{cite web|title=DARPA Young Faculty Award|url=http://www.northeastern.edu/resdev/funding-announcement/darpa-young-faculty-award/|website=Northeastern University|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=27 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327021930/http://www.northeastern.edu/resdev/funding-announcement/darpa-young-faculty-award/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Awards Info|url=http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/for-universities/young-faculty-award|website=DARPA|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911172159/http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/for-universities/young-faculty-award|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=List of DARPA Award recipients|url=http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/YFAAwardees2006_2015.pdf|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=13 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913134118/http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/YFAAwardees2006_2015.pdf|url-status=live}}
• LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, US State Dept and NIKE{{cite web|title=Innovating for Billions: Inverting the Research and Funding Models|url=http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/speaker.php?date=2016-04-29|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=11 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211031927/http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/speaker.php?date=2016-04-29|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Intro of Dr Raskar|url=http://www.ges2016.org/ges-2016-speakers/2016/5/18/raskar-ramesh|website=GES|publisher=Global Entrepreneur sUMMIT|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919132203/http://www.ges2016.org/ges-2016-speakers/2016/5/18/raskar-ramesh|url-status=live}}
• PharmaVOICE 100{{cite web|title=Raskar was awarded PharmaVOICE 100 his positive contributions to the life-sciences industry|url=http://www.pharmavoice.com/content/digitaledition.html?pg=105|access-date=4 July 2017|archive-date=7 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807084757/http://www.pharmavoice.com/content/digitaledition.html?pg=105|url-status=live}}
• Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project Award (first place){{cite web|title=Ramesh Raskar Intro|url=http://tatacenter.mit.edu/portfolio/ramesh-raskar/|website=Tata Center at MIT|publisher=Tata Center for Technology and Design|access-date=12 September 2016|archive-date=26 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926092825/http://tatacenter.mit.edu/portfolio/ramesh-raskar/|url-status=live}}
• Lemelson–MIT Prize ($500,000){{cite news|title=Inverting the Venture Model, Ramesh Raskar's REDX platform- Congrats to Ramesh Raskar for receiving the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Invention-Imaging scientist and inventor sets sights on launching peer-to-peer invention platforms for global impact.|url=https://medium.com/@cameraculturegroup/100-photos-related-to-emerging-worlds-work-with-ramesh-raskar-f3fc4fa1a0e2#.2uny8vic6|access-date=14 September 2016|agency=The Medium|publisher=John Werner|archive-date=19 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919194133/https://medium.com/@cameraculturegroup/100-photos-related-to-emerging-worlds-work-with-ramesh-raskar-f3fc4fa1a0e2#.2uny8vic6|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Ramesh Raskar Inventor of Femto-photography; Awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize|url=http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/ramesh-raskar|website=Lemelson MIT|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|access-date=14 September 2016|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916163053/http://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/ramesh-raskar|url-status=dead}}
• 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award{{cite news|title= 2017 CG Achievement Award: Ramesh Raskar.|url= http://www.siggraph.org/participate/awards/2017-cg-achievement-award-ramesh-raskar|access-date= 13 July 2017|archive-date= 30 June 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170630040911/http://www.siggraph.org/participate/awards/2017-cg-achievement-award-ramesh-raskar|url-status= live}}
• 2019 Jack Dangermond Award $10,000 for GeoSpatial Research in a Journal Paper (for Street Address for All){{Cite web|url=https://www.isprs.org/society/awards/dangermond.aspx|title=The Jack Dangermond Award|website=isprs.org|access-date=2019-05-15|archive-date=15 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515041446/https://www.isprs.org/society/awards/dangermond.aspx|url-status=live}}
• RPS (The Royal Photographic Society) Award for Imaging Science

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.indoscopy.com/2013/10/creator-of-femto-photography-ramesh.html Inventor of Femto-Photography Ramesh Raskar]
• [http://www.kumbha.org/ Co-Founder of Kumbhathon Ventures Dr. Ramesh Raskar]
• [https://eyenetra.com/ Founder of EyeNetra Ramesh Raskar]
• [http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=102077&ref=talks TEDMED Talk on "How do we look at the future of health with both eyes" by Dr.Ramesh Raskar]
• [http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/ Dr. Ramesh Raskar's Homepage] at MIT Media Lab
• [http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/#pubs Dr. Ramesh Raskar's Publications] at MIT Media Lab
• [http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2009/08/what-photography-will-look-2060 Interview by Popular Photography on "What Photography Will Look Like By 2060 ?"]
• [http://www.technologyreview.com/article/413118/photo-future/ Interview by MIT Technology Review on the "Future of Computational Photography"]
• [http://eyeselfie.org/ Co-Inventor of EyeSelfie ( Self Directed Eye Alignment using Reciprocal Eye Box Imaging ) at MIT Media Lab]
• [http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/ Director of MIT Media Lab Camera Culture Group.]
• [http://globalexpressnews.com/reddit-ama-with-prof-ramesh-raskar-holder-of-more-than-50-patents REDDIT AMA with Prof. Ramesh Raskar – Holder of more than 50 patents]
• [https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ulab0/i_am_dr_ramesh_raskar_associate_professor_at_mit Reddit AMA Conversation Extract]
• [https://www.redx.io]

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