Notable projects include: Femto-Photography (trillion fps imaging), NETRA (cellphone-based optometry), CORNAR (looking around corners), THz book scanning, Robocodes (street addressing for all), privacy-preserving distributed ML, and automated ML
Research featured in Nature, The New York Times, and TED Talks
Background
Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab
Leader of the Camera Culture research group
Co-leader of the AI for Impact MIT Initiative
Founder of REDX.io, focused on innovating for billions
Co-director of the Center for Future Storytelling
Member of the Botnar Foundation's 'AI for Health' initiative
Research focuses on AI and imaging for health and sustainability
Work spans physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning), and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains