In a proud moment for India, Chennai-born engineering Professor Ashok Veeraraghavan has been awarded the prestigious Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in engineering, a highly esteemed academic accolade in Texas. Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award is given in Texas every year to outstanding researchers in the state who have made groundbreaking contributions in medicine, engineering, biological sciences, physical sciences, and technological innovation. America's prestigious Rice University on its social media handle shared Ashok Veeraraghavan's picture and hailed his 'revolutionary imaging technology that seeks to make the invisible visible'. Now, the question arises who is Ashok Veeraraghavan? Below is everything you need to know about Ashok Veeraraghavan-
Who is Ashok Veeraraghavan?
Ashok Veeraraghavan originally hails from Chennai, where he spent the majority of his early years before adulthood. Currently, Ashok Veeraraghavan serves as a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering.
Ashok was quoted by a newswire saying, "I am delighted to receive this award. It is the recognition of the wonderful and innovative research that many students, postdocs and research scientists, in the computational imaging lab at Rice University have done over the last decade."
Coming to Ashok Veeraraghavan's revolutionary work, his study aims to create solutions for imaging settings in which the visualisation objective is unreachable by present imaging technologies due to light scattering in participating medium. "One familiar example of this is when you’re driving a car and it’s foggy, so you can’t see too far out. In this case, fog acts as the scattering medium. If you’re doing satellite imaging, clouds can act as the scattering medium. And if you’re doing biological imaging, it’s skin that acts as the obscurant so you can’t see blood cells or the structure of the vascular system, for example," Ashok Veeraraghavan explained in a release.
Winners of the 2024 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award will be formally recognized during a ceremony in Austin in February. They will also give presentations about their work at the TAMEST 2024 Annual Conference.
Co-founded in 2004 by Rice Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, TAMEST is a 330-member organization composed of Texas-based Nobel laureates and members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.
Veeraraghavan told PTI, “I am delighted to receive this award. It is the recognition of the wonderful and innovative research that many students, postdocs and research scientists, in the computational imaging lab at Rice University have done over the last decade."
Ashok Veeraraghavan, a computer engineer and professor of Indian origin, has been honoured with the prestigious Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in engineering, a highly esteemed academic accolade in Texas.
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