The awards bestowed on Sridevi
Vedula Sarma from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University and Pawan Sinha and Parag A Pathak both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the highest honour given by the US Government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. “Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people,” Obama
said. “The impressive accomplishments of today’s awardees so early in
their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead,” the US President
said. Established in 1996, the awardees are selected for their pursuit
of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and
their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education,
or community outreach. An associate professor of computational and
visual neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at
MIT, Sinha received his undergraduate degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and his Masters and doctoral degrees
from the Department of Computer Science at MIT. Sinha’s experimental
work at the MIT involves studying the vision impaired, including children with autism and a unique population of children in India who have recovered sight following prolonged periods of congenital blindness.
Parag A. Pathak, an associate professor in the Department of Economics; Pawan Sinha SM ’92, PhD ’95, a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; and Jesse Thaler, an assistant professor of physics.
Sridevi V. Sarma received a BS (1994) from
Cornell University and an MS (1997) and PhD (2006) from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, Cambridge, from 2006-2009.
Sri is now an Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical
Engineering & Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns
Hopkins University. Her research interests include control of
constrained and defective systems (applications in neuroscience) and
large-scale optimization. Sri is president and cofounder of Infolenz
Corporation, a Marketing Analytics company. She is a recipient of the GE
faculty for the future scholarship, a National Science Foundation
graduate research fellow, a L’Oreal for Women in Science National
fellow, and a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Careers at the
Scientific Interface Award.
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In this context, Professor Sinha has launched a humanitarian and scientific initiative named “Project Prakash” The goal of this project is not only to derive clues regarding the nature and development of high-level visual skills, but also to help blind children get treatment and to create rehabilitation routines to help them overcome visual impairments. Sridevi Sarma is assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Computational Medicine at the John Hopkins University. Sarma received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, in 1994; and an MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 and 2006, respectively. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, Cambridge, from 2006-2009.
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