Professor Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and head of MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group, engaged in an interactive session with students from various B-schools, design schools and medical institutes on the application of design thinking on scalable technology innovation. He spoke about his latest invention ‘eyeMitra’, a Mobile Retinal Imaging and Predictive Analytics solution.
The owner of 50 US patents brainstormed with students on how they could contribute to designing the future of India.
He also had a discussion with students at the Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development (WeSchool) on the topic, ‘Design at scale: a new paradigm for tech innovation’.
Through the session he spoke on the need for a linkage between various streams of work. He touched on how constant communication and cooperation between various streams such as management, engineering and design would lead to differential innovation.
Prof Ramesh advised the students to focus their energies on devising solutions for socially relevant problems that would help the common man in various aspects of life. He also spoke about how the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture research group has pioneered in innovation and idea generation through an amalgamation of professional culture and various fields of work for broader perspective and clarity while innovating.
He asked the students to never stop ideating and to take action on the problems they face on a day-to-day basis, but first to interact and brainstorm with people from different backgrounds to discern social issues and to craft solutions that address it efficiently, economically and quickly.