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Four Indians among MIT's Top 35 Innovators

ST Team
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
ST Team
There are two Indians and two persons of Indian origin among Top 35 Innovators under-35 in the latest list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review, the world’s oldest Technology Magazine established in 1899.

Ajit Narayanan, Invention Labs, Chennai and Aishwarya Ratan, Yale University, who were part of TR35 India Winners announced in March 2011, have made it to the annual list of people who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business and technology.

The honorees are blazing new paths in a wide range of fields, including medicine, energy, communications, IT, consumer technology, entertainment, and robotics, announced MIT.

Chennai based Ajit Narayanan, was selected for his work on affordable speech synthesizers. He is currently working with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to improve the quality of the speech synthesis. He also plans to use mobile app stores to distribute a version of his software with about 90 percent of the full Avaz system’s functionality.

Aishwarya Ratan, was working with Microsoft Research in Bangalore when she was honored for her work on converting paper records to digital in real time. She has since moved to Yale University, but the NGO that she was partnering with continues to test the slate in villages.


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