Ramesh Raskar Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Ramesh Raskar is an Assoc. Prof. at MIT and is director of the Camera Culture group at MIT Media Lab. In his recent role at Facebook, he launched and led innovation teams in Digital Health, Health-tech, Satellite Imaging, TV bandwidth for Connectivity, VR/AR and 'Emerging Worlds' initiative for FB.His new focus is on building world-scale interfaces between societal systems and cyber-physical systems. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automating machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains.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 ($500K 'Nobel' in Engineering), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award 2017, Technology Review TR100 award 2004, Global Indus Technovator Award, top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide 2003, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship award 2009 and Darpa Young Faculty award 2010. Others include Marr Prize honorable mention 2009, LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA+others 2010, Vodafone WirelessInnovationAward (first place) 2011. He frequently consults for dynamic organizations to conduct 'SpotProbing' exercises to spot opportunities and probe solutions. He holds 100+ US patents.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

C10 LABS is a Venture Studio fund transforming the future of AI-First startups.Are we in an AI bubble? AI innovation has largely been tethered to the confines of screens, encompassing content creation, office tools, coding, and chatbots. The true potential of AI is about transforming industries, reshaping economies and enhancing lives. C10 Labs’ venture studio model is extending the AI revolution beyond screens to build “Dimensional AI” ventures that will revolutionize healthcare, agriculture, transportation, energy, and more. To create resilient AI companies with real world impact, we need a new venture model.

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Select companies:Vayu RoboticsPhotoneoUbiceptGlass ImagingAlgofaceAikriti.aiS10.aiEyeNetraVery proud of many spin offs by students in my group,LendBuzz (now a unicorn)Stable | Driving Profitable EV ChargingLumii (novel printing for 3D imagery), LensBricks (computer vision with computational imaging), Tesseract (personalized display)

Cambridge, Ma, Us

PathCheck and MIT Safe Paths are privacy-first, open source apps for citizens and public health. Our goal is to achieve algorithmic societal orchestration via crowdsourcing+analysis+nudges for citizens. We believe the most important problem in crisis response is citizen engagement. The flywheel of crowdsensing+nudges can build resilient societies. But how can we achieve that without slipping into a surveillance-state anywhere in the world? Working along side public health authorities using the latest in computational privacy algorithms and software stack. Our team is shaped by MIT, Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Berkeley as well as WHO, HHS, I-DAIR and many corporations and tech-companies.We are not an 'app' and we are not here to compete .. we are building a backbone so all digital solutions built by anyone can plug in for interoperable streams. We are also a community that wants to help innovators and entrepreneurs build scalable solutions.We are always looking for engineers, epidemiologists, designers, VCs, govt leaders and change makers to join the cause.PathCheck has raised several $million in philanthropic funding and grants. PathCheck is the official Covid19 app for four US states: Minnesota, Alabama, Louisiana and Hawaii, and many other countries. PathCheck achieved several $million in revenue by delivering enterprise grade software apps and solutions, but continues to provide free open source tools.PathCheck is an official partner of WHO providing solutions for vaccine certificated and verification using verifyable credentials and one of the largest free and open credentials directory.See more at https://prep.pathcheck.org

(i) REDX Labs provide AI-centric studio model and emphasize 'innovation before entrepreneurship' (ii) REDX Clubs promote AI-for-impact college clubs: young inventors innovating for billions using an online-offline structured program (see http://redx.io)REDX philosophy has influenced various initiatives across the world including 3 incubators.http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/speaker.php?date=2016-04-29Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvoZjED-aSQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCgt_EGmRC4 REDX: Flipped Venture ModelREDX Key Themes: http://mitemergingworlds.com/events/#new-page-47

LVPEI-MITRA is a unique collaborative program between the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad and the Camera Culture group, MIT Media Lab to build and deploy the next generation of screening, diagnostic and therapeutic tools for eye care.

Emerging Worlds consortium at MIT Media Lab and Digital Impact Square (DISQ) in India is novel innovation incubation platform to address billion dollar problems that will touch a billion lives. DISQ (in collaboration with founding partner TCS) provides an open impact innovation vessel. The center works together with govt, local businesses, universities and organizations to spot key problems and probe solutions. Innovations all over the world are welcome to apply at https://www.digitalimpactsquare.com/.Digital Impact Square is a living lab where research and technology from academia and industry influences everyday life, fosters a culture of innovation through a series of sustained innovation cycles and accelerates the journey of many from being ideators to entrepreneurs.

Palo Alto, California, Us

(Akasha was acquired by Alphabet's robotics software and AI company Intrinsic in Summer 2022)Akasha Imaging is a MIT Media Lab spinout founded on breakthrough technology using polarized light in the Camera Culture group.

Basel, Basel, Ch

Fondation Botnar, $3.5 Billion foundation, invests in scaleable AI and digital innovation to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in growing urban environments around the world.All applications for funding are examined by the newly created advisory Expert CommissionSubmit your grants in AI + Health at https://fondationbotnar.org/https://fondationbotnar.org/about/board-membershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondation_Botnar

Cupertino, California, Us

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, Private Set Intersections and 'Splintering'

Digital Health, Health-tech, Satellite Imaging, TV bandwidth for Connectivity, VR/AR, 'Emerging Worlds' initiative for FB.Public efforts: Bluetooth Tracing for Contagions https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06468Street Address for All: https://github.com/facebookresearch/street-addresses/Satellite Imaging Large Scale Machine Learning : https://www.facebook.com/rraskar/posts/10156484817433179

EyeNetra.com, an award winning MIT Media Lab spin-out based on a low cost mobile eye diagnostic is looking for an experienced businessperson to join our management team. The same IP is now commercialized by https://eyeque.com/eyeque-news/Bringing affordable EyeTests to everyone using a mobile phone. Uncorrected refractive errors (i.e. nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism), presbyopia (age related eye condition) result in lost productivity, lost independence, illiteracy and impoverishment on a massive scale. Many in developing countries go without eye exams and remain unaware that they have a treatable eye condition. Leveraging the ubiquity and advanced hardware of mobile phones, EyeNETRA grew out of collaborative research at the MIT Media Lab to develop and disseminate hardware apps – affordable and easy-to-use mobile phone attachments that provide recommendation for treatment.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

WiFi and Optical Projects, AR-VR, Global Impact, Rapid Evaluation team

Arlington, Va, Us

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group for a three-year term.The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers together to identify new areas of development in computer and communication technologies and to recommend future research directions. It was established by DARPA in 1987 to support its technology offices, providing continuing and independent assessment of the state of advanced information science and technology and as it relates to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Fundamental and applied research in RFID, displays, computer vision, imaging, computer graphics and HCI.