Indian-origin computer engineer Ashok Veeraraghavan has been felicitated with one of the highest academic honours in Texas—the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award. He is also a professor of electrical and computer engineering at George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University.
The award is presented to rising researchers in the US state, by The Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST).
Mr Veeraraghavan has been honoured with this prestigious award for his revolutionary imaging technology that seeks to make the invisible visible.
Mr Veeraraghavan’s research work provides solutions in imaging scenarios, wherein there is inaccessibility of the visualisation target because of the scattering of light.
Imagine taking a pristine picture through fog, smoke and rain. Imagine taking interior images of the human body through skin, bone and other tissue that scatter light and limit human vision. Mr. Veeraraghavan and his team at Rice University work on creating imaging systems that use novel multi-dimensional image sensors along with machine learning algorithms to undo the effects of light-scattering and see-through scattering media such as fog, smoke, rain and human tissue.
Mr Veeraraghavan received his BTech in electrical engineering from IIT Madras in 2002, and his master’s and PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
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