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I'm fascinated by the idea of super-human vision
and I want to create super-human abilities to visually
interact with the world — with cameras that can
see the unseen, and displays that can sense the altar of reality.
How can we create cameras that can look around
corners, or create cameras that can casually look
inside the body. Or convert mobile phones into
diagonistic care devices that can be promoted in
remote parts of the world.
So, I'm really excited about creating unique, and
unsually imaging platforms that have an
understanding of the world that far exceeds human
ability, but then we can meaningfully abstract and
synthesize something that's well within
human comprehensibility.
During my PhD at UNC-Chapel Hill, my research
was about inventively using projectors for
large-format displays, augmented reality, and mobility.
At MERL, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
here in Cambridge, my work was about computational
photography, pocket projectors — which resulted in
over forty patents and also novel products.
I came to MIT because I want to invent new fields.
And here, I am embarking on ambitious projects to
invent and create novel imaging platforms.
In life, it's often about the small things.
So I am actually writing a book on 'sweat the small stuff'
And it's about clever and efficient tricks to live
a good life. And even from students — they often write
blogs and documents on, you know how to do research
how to invent, even how to attend a conference.
But the book is really about travel, relationships and money and so on.
On the other hand, my passion is about
working with NGOs [non-governmental organizations]
and I do that, in part, because I am a world citizen,
and growing up in India, I understood the tremendous
role the absence or presence of technolgy can play in these places.