Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Camera Culture research group and leads work on Networked AI Agents to build the “Internet of AI Agents.” His research spans distributed AI agent architectures, machine learning, and imaging for health and sustainability—reaching across physical domains like sensors and health-tech, digital domains like automated and privacy-aware machine learning, and global domains like geomaps and autonomous mobility.

At MIT, his co-inventions include a camera that can see around corners, femto-photography, automated machine learning (auto-ML), private ML (split-learning), low-cost eye-care devices (Netra, Catra, EyeSelfie), a novel CAT-scan machine, motion capture (Prakash), long-distance barcodes (Bokode), and 3D interaction displays (the BiDi screen). Before MIT, he co-invented techniques for augmented reality, computational photography, Shader Lamps (projector-AR), and multi-flash cameras for depth-edge detection.

Raskar has led innovation teams across industry, launching efforts in digital health, health-tech, satellite imaging, and connectivity at Facebook, and working on special research projects at Google [X], Apple, and Facebook. He founded REDX.io, a platform for young innovators to explore AI-for-Impact, and has co-founded and advised numerous startups.

His honors include the Lemelson Award (2016), the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), the TR100 award recognizing top innovators under 35 (2004), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), and the DARPA Young Faculty Award (2010). He holds more than 100 US patents, and his invited and keynote talks include TED, Wired, TEDMED, and Google Solve for X.