The Indian workforce is undeniably the one of the most sought after and successful workforce in the global field. It has taken the nation several years to build this reputation and we all owe it to skilled individuals who have been making us proud for all these years, with the latest addition in the glorious list being that of Ashok Veeraraghavan.
Ashok is an Indian-origin computer engineer cum professor who has now etched his name in the golden books as he recieved this year’s Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award, the highest possible academic honour in Texas. The Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science, and Technology presented this award to Veer for his revolutionary imaging technology whose aim is to turn the invisible to visible.
The Chennai born professor, told PTI in an interview that he is delighted to receive the award and that it is the recognition of the wonderful and innovative research that many students, postdocs and research scientists, in the computational imaging lab at Rice University have done over the last decade.
Veer’s study has an admirable aim of create solutions for imaging settings in which the visualisation objective is unreachable due to the limitations of the present imaging technologies, particular owing to light scattering in the participating medium. One easy to understand example of such a scenario would be when one is driving a car and it’s foggy, so they can’t see too far out, explained Veer.
This noble pursuit and its recognition speaks a lot about the infinite possibilities of the human mind and humanity as a whole. We all hope that this award motivates Ashok to continue pursuing his project and also inspires many new feathers to leap and take the flight.
