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9 Indians in MIT top innovators' list November 08, 2004 12:08 IST It's been a good year for Indians abroad, with Bobby Jindal getting elected to the US Congress and steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal topping the UK rich list and many achievements by Indian scientists on foreign shores. The year, nine Indians under the age of 35 are among the top 100 in the list of innovators selected by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review magazine. Be it Srinidhi Varadarajan who built the world's third-fastest supercomputer for $5 million or Smruti Vidwans with her new approach to develop drugs against tuberculosis, the chosen hundred represent a group whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact in today's world. Another Indian on the list is 28-year-old Vikram Sheel Kumar, chief executive officer, Dimagi who founded the organisation in Boston to develop interactive software that motivates patients to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and AIDS. His systems are being used in rural India and South Africa. An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and Columbia University, Kumar was inspired by his neurosurgeon father to blend engineering and medicine. "Dimagi was formed with the vision to develop appropriate technology to solve practical global health issues around maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and mental disease," Kumar said. "We also designed a handheld tool to ensure the confidentiality of data when reporting HIV test results by health workers in the field in South Africa. We are currently building a smart-card based patient registration system to integrate the care between various health programs in Zambia where nearly one in five people has HIV/AIDS," he adds. Thirty-four-year old Chaitali Sengupta, a Systems Architect at Texas Instruments, oversees the architecture of communications chips used in advanced cellular systems now coming to market, has also made her way to this list. The chips let multimedia cell phones more easily handle Internet access, videoconferencing, and mobile commerce. An alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and Rice University in Houston, Sengupta and her team designed techniques for reducing power consumption and improving performance of 3G mobiles. Read more: http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/nov/08mit.htm Complete list of Indian Innovators Anuj Batra (34), systems engineer, Texas Instruments Ramesh Raskar (34), visiting research scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Chaitali Sengupta (34), systems architect, Texas Instruments Srinidhi Varadarajan (31), director, Terascale Computing Facility, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Mayank Bulsara (32), co-founder and chief technology officer, AmberWave Systems Ravi Kane (32), assistant professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Smruti Vidwans (30), postdoctoral fellow University of California, San Francisco Vikram Sheel Kumar (28), co-founder and chief executive officer, Dimagi Ananth Natarajan (33), chief executive officer, Infinite Biomedical Technologies Forwarded by Eddie Verdes
