PRANAV MISTRY(SIXTH SCENCE)

Pranav Mistry

Born:-                  1981,Palanpur, Gujarat, India.

Citizenship:-  India

Nationality:-   Indian

Institutions:- Research assistant and PhD candidate at MIT                                   Media Lab    

Alma mater:-

Gujarat University

IIT Bombay

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Known for:-    Inventor of SixthSense, Mouseless, SPARSH and TeleTouch

Notable awards:- 2009 Invention Award By Popular Science.

SixthSense was awarded in 2009 Invention Award by Popular Science to Pranav Mistry. He was also named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world, under the age of 35. In 2010, he was named to Creativity Magazine's Creativity 50.Mistry has been called "one of ten, best inventors in the world right now by Chris Anderson. Mistry has been listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011.

Awards and Achievements

Ø website designing organized by ACES.

Ø Dirubhai Ambani Foundation Award for securing the 1st rank in district.

Ø  Model Making contest in Techfest @ IIT Bombay

Ø Speaker for TED 2009 talk on ‘sixthsense’, TED 2009, Long Beach, CA.