20 Indian inventors under 35 years, honoured by MIT's Technology Review magazine
The Indian Editor of Technology Review, the oldest technology magazine in the world, published by a media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has honoured 20 Indians below the age of 35, for their technical innovations. This is a part of the, global listing of innovators called TR35, that MIT Technology Review has been identifying for over a decade. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the EmTech 2010 India Conference, which concluded in Bangalore on Tuesday.
The Humanitarian of the Year award-winner Dhananjaya Dendukuri, 32, CEO and co-founder, Achira Labs, Bangalore was chosen for his innovation in the field of Biotechnology & Medicine. He created a novel platform to perform low-cost medical diagnostic tests.
The Innovator of the Year was awarded to Kranthi Kiran Vistakula’s “heat exchange” technology. A postgraduate student at Mechanical Engineering and Technology Policy Program from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he developed the ClimaCon technology which has applications beyond the apparel space, in infant incubators and cooling large spaces such as auditoriums. ( se image of the day)
Rikin B. Gandhi, 28, Founder of Digital Green, Bangalore was named the Social Innovator of the Year for finding a solution to help farmers adopt better farmer practices. All three have ‘ done time’ at MIT’s Engineering School.
An interesting innovation in the energy field was Aravind A. Narayan’s solution for recovering oil for reuse. Aravind, 34, is the founder of Pure Tech India based in Tiruchirappalli.
The youngest innovator on the list is the 23-year old post graduate student of IIT Kharagpur, Manoj Kumar Mandelia. He developed a solution to deal with wastewater management thus producing electricity.
Computer & Electronics Hardware The 26-year old co-founder of Mumbai-based Ideaforge Technology, Ashish Bhat created the world’s smallest and lightest autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle that can be used for anti-terrorist operations, counter-insurgency in forests, hostage situations, border infiltration monitoring, local law enforcement operations, search and rescue operations, disaster management, aerial photography and more.
Indrani Medhi created a text-free user interface for illiterate and semi-literate users. The 31-year old Associate Researcher works with the world’s largest software maker, Microsoft Research. Mayank Shrivastava, a 25-year old student at IIT Mumbai’s Centre for Excellence in Nanoelectronics modified DeMOS devices that would be one of the key elements for modern system-on-chip designs.
Prajwal V. Kumar, 30, Chief Design Engineer and Co-founder of Mangalore Robotronics Technologies was recognized for creating a remote controlled system for power tiller that will save farmers the drudgery of having to walk along with the power tiller to control its direction.
Medicine and Biotechnology, Energy
The 30-year old co-founder of Consure Medical, Nishith Chasmawala created a solution for managing the issue of fecal incontinence in patients while Satyam Trivedi, 29, co-founder of Indrion Technologies, Bangalore will be a part of this technology hall of fame for creating an Intelligent system for optimizing electricity consumption.
Software
Sriram Kannan, 34, of 121 Telesolutions Bangalore is a part of the IndiaTR35 list for developing software for accessing medical images on mobile phones while Hardik Sanghvi, 31, Founder, Vmukti Solutions, Ahmedabad created an algorithm to provide rich content on low bandwidth
Ram Prakash Hanumanthappa, 31, Developer of Quillpad, a Phonetic transliteration software and Vishal Gupta, 32, Founder, Selcore Technology, Mumbai are on the list for their contribution to the field of software technology.
Telecom
Bhushan G. Jagyasi, 30, Scientist, TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai built a mobile-based agro advisory system for potato farmers. Gireesh Rajendran, 31, Texas Instruments, Bangalore developed an ultra low noise GPS receiver in standard CMOS process which demonstrated that low noise RF receivers can be designed for mass production in low cost CMOS process.
Bangalore-based Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s Sharad Jaiswal built a solution to deliver rich content at lower prices enabling users at the bottom end of the spectrum use data services. Another Bangalorean Jaiganesh Balakrishnan, 33, Senior systems Engineer at Texas Instruments co-invented the multi-band OFDM UWB system for high-speed wireless communications in personal area networks.
Transportation
Shashikanth Suryanarayanan, 32, developed India's First Steer-by-wire vehicle, and has built a unique solution to improve driving experience.
Details of each innovation will be available shortly at the Technolofgy Review India site:
http://www.technologyreview.in/TR35/