Inventors of radical imaging solutions awarded

Inventors of radical imaging solutions including femto-photography- an ultra-fast imaging system can see around  corners –low-cost eye-care solutions for developing world, and a camera that allows users to read pages of a book without opening the cover,  Nasik-born Ramesh Rashkar (46) won the  prestigious awards  of $500, 000 Lemelson –MIT Prize 2016 and Dinesh Bharadia  28,  a doctorate from Stanford University and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and researcher at MIT won the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award of the US-based Marconi Society, at  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his contribution to send and receive wireless signals including mobile telephony and data on the same channel (wave).  They have been conferred with these awards, for their path-breaking inventions. “Bharadia’s research disproved a long-held assumption that it is not possible for a radio to receive and transmit on the same frequency band because of the resulting interference” according to the Marconi Society statement.

He will receive the award at a ceremony in Mountain View, California, on November 2, 2016, and the Marconi Young Scholar award includes $4000 prize and expenses to attend its annual awards event. Bharadia’s technology can be used in India to build relays which can listen to signals from a cellular tower, transmit them instantly and extend the range across the country.

“Raskar  co-inventor of radical femto-photography work not only has the potential to transform industries  a new generation of inventors to tackle the biggest problems of our time” according to Lemelson. “Everyone has the power to solve problems and through peer-to-peer co-invention and purposeful collaboration, we can solve problems that will impact billions of lives” Raskar who is also Associate Professor at MIT said. He plans to use a portion of the Lemelson –MIT Prize money to launch a new effort using peer-to-peer invention platforms that offer new approaches for helping young people in multiple countries to co-invent in a collaborative way.