Two Indo-American scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been conferred with the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize 2016.
Nasik-born Ramesh Raskar, an imaging scientist and inventor at MIT, has been awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Raskar, 46, is the co-inventor of radical imaging solutions including femto-photography — an ultra-fast imaging system that can see around corners — low-cost eye-care solutions for the developing world, and a camera that allows users to read pages of a book without opening the cover.
Dinesh Bharadia, researcher at MIT, won the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award of the US-based Marconi Society.
The technology, currently in development for commercialisation, uses ultrafast imaging to capture light at 1 trillion frames per second, allowing the camera to create slow motion videos of light in motion.
