India's burgeoning population of young generation uses technology to empower themselves to create opportunities for inclusion. They connect innovations with society and enterprise. These innovators coming from a wide range of fields are being listed in the prestigious India TR35 honor by MIT's Technology Review India. Here is the list of young innovators, all under age 35, who exemplify innovation in business and technology.
1. Ajit Narayanan
Ajit Narayanan, 29, has been awarded MIT's Technology Review India's 'Innovator of the Year' for exemplifying the spirit of innovation in India. Toiling for a few years at a startup, Invention Labs Engineering, incubated at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, Narayanan has developed an alternate communication system for millions of people who remain incommunicado with the society due to their disabilities. Avaz, (voice in Hindi) is the tool which uses a variety of software and hardware to provide a voice to these muted millions using just their muscle movements.
2. Fahad Azad
Fahad Azad, Co-Founder of Robosoft Systems, Mumbai has been recognized for his innovative idea of bridling a duct cleaning robot to improve quality of the air we breathe. The company supplies its products to many international brands including Dubai-based EPSCO and Blue Star.
3. Pulkit Gaur
Pulkit Gaur, Gridbots, Ahmedabad invented an underwater robot to clean tanks and reduce water wastage. It features an onboard camera, electronic compasses, gyroscope, obstruction sensors, floodlights and an actuator-driven circuitry to operate arobotic arm.
4. Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan
Aishwarya, working with Microsoft Research, Bangalore created a hybrid paper, pen, and digital slate solution for a low-cost digital record management system. Her innovation enables users use a normal pen and a plain paper to record data and instantly store it digitally. Aishwarya's team built a digital financial record management application, on top of the device, that follows the structure of the paper accounting system used by the SHGs.
5. Gautam Kumar
Gautam Kumar, 26, from Bhubaneswar was named as the Social Innovator of the year. Kumar has developed a simple gas detection system using a sensor and communication module to issue warning to user's registered mobile phone. This helps to prevent cylinder blasts occurring due to cylinder leakages. Called Suraksha (safety in Hindi), it is another innovation that should improve safety levels in millions of Indian homes in the coming years.
6. Srinivasan Jayaraman
Srinivasan Jayaraman, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore has devised a secure system using human ECG to authenticate, identify and diagnose.
7. Alefia Merchant
A young medical student, Alefia Merchant, 32 is pursuing medical studies in Canada. Alefia, during her short stint with Bangalore-based eye hospital, Narayana Nethralaya developed an easy method to spot eye disorders in young children. She used the images from digital cameras to look for vision threatening symptoms. The simplicity of the method provides a handy tool in the hands of health workers in remote corners of India and perhaps many other medically underserved regions in the world. For this amazing invention the jury named Alefia Merchant, the Humanitarian of the Year, from the perspective of technology innovation.
8. Krishna Gopal Singh
Krishna Gopal Singh, CTO & Co-Founder of EnNatura Technology Ventures, Delhi has created an ecofriendly printing ink that reduces harmful emissions by almost 99 percent. Currently, he leads technology and product development at EnNatura.
9. Sameer Jain
Sameer Jain, MGV Dental College, Nashik, created an innovative root canal machine. The modified root canal obturation machine has a temperature modulator and a vibrator. The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has given me permission to try it on patients after my machine proved successful on extracted teeth, he added.
10. Harit Soni
Harit Soni, Ecolibrium Energy, Ahmedabad created a smart grid technology to optimize the use of electricity in India. The technology helps in optimizing the use of electricity and minimizing the wastage of fossil fuel besides reducing emission of greenhouse gases.
11. Mayur M. Sadawana
Mayur M. Sadawana, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai invented point-of-care multi-analyte sensor.
12. Sanjoy Ghosh
Sanjoy Ghosh, Logica India, Bangalore built a device that wirelessly monitors and reports vehicular emission in real-time. He is working as a Product Manager at Logica and is committed to create innovative and sustainable solutions for consumers and enterprises
13. Sagar Bedmutha
Sagar Bedmutha, Founder and CEO of Optinno Mobitech, Pune, developed an intelligent anti-spamming software for mobile phones. The applications of Optinno Mobitech namely Mobiwatchman and smsBlocker blocks unwanted calls and SMSes. It had won AppFAME contest by NASSCOM and won the Top App award from Forum Nokia.
14. Deepak Ravindran
Deepak Ravindran, Innoz Technologies, Gurgaon created a mobile based search engine to deliver information on any topic. He is the Co-Founder- Chief Executive Officer of Innoz Technologies.
15. Manav Bhatia
Manav Bhatia, Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore has been successful in creating innovative means of securing the Internet service provider's routing network.
16. Akshay Shah
Akshay Shah, iWeb Technology Solutions, Mumbai, developed a business process management generator which can create applications on the fly. This Suite has its own Rule Engine or Business Rules Management System (BRMS). This ensures that implementers do not have to repeatedly rely on software principals for critical but necessary customization of the product.
17. Akash Lal
Akash Lal, a research at Microsoft Research, Bangalore has developed methods to improve software quality using automated verification.
18. Sushant Sinha
Sushant Sinha, Indian Kanoon, Bangalore developed a search engine for Indian laws and court judgments. It breaks law documents into smallest possible clause and by integrates law/statutes with court judgments that allow automatic determination of the most relevant clauses and court judgments.
1. Ajit Narayanan
Ajit Narayanan, 29, has been awarded MIT's Technology Review India's 'Innovator of the Year' for exemplifying the spirit of innovation in India. Toiling for a few years at a startup, Invention Labs Engineering, incubated at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras, Narayanan has developed an alternate communication system for millions of people who remain incommunicado with the society due to their disabilities. Avaz, (voice in Hindi) is the tool which uses a variety of software and hardware to provide a voice to these muted millions using just their muscle movements.
2. Fahad Azad
Fahad Azad, Co-Founder of Robosoft Systems, Mumbai has been recognized for his innovative idea of bridling a duct cleaning robot to improve quality of the air we breathe. The company supplies its products to many international brands including Dubai-based EPSCO and Blue Star.
3. Pulkit Gaur
Pulkit Gaur, Gridbots, Ahmedabad invented an underwater robot to clean tanks and reduce water wastage. It features an onboard camera, electronic compasses, gyroscope, obstruction sensors, floodlights and an actuator-driven circuitry to operate arobotic arm.
4. Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan
Aishwarya, working with Microsoft Research, Bangalore created a hybrid paper, pen, and digital slate solution for a low-cost digital record management system. Her innovation enables users use a normal pen and a plain paper to record data and instantly store it digitally. Aishwarya's team built a digital financial record management application, on top of the device, that follows the structure of the paper accounting system used by the SHGs.
5. Gautam Kumar
Gautam Kumar, 26, from Bhubaneswar was named as the Social Innovator of the year. Kumar has developed a simple gas detection system using a sensor and communication module to issue warning to user's registered mobile phone. This helps to prevent cylinder blasts occurring due to cylinder leakages. Called Suraksha (safety in Hindi), it is another innovation that should improve safety levels in millions of Indian homes in the coming years.
6. Srinivasan Jayaraman
Srinivasan Jayaraman, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore has devised a secure system using human ECG to authenticate, identify and diagnose.
7. Alefia Merchant
A young medical student, Alefia Merchant, 32 is pursuing medical studies in Canada. Alefia, during her short stint with Bangalore-based eye hospital, Narayana Nethralaya developed an easy method to spot eye disorders in young children. She used the images from digital cameras to look for vision threatening symptoms. The simplicity of the method provides a handy tool in the hands of health workers in remote corners of India and perhaps many other medically underserved regions in the world. For this amazing invention the jury named Alefia Merchant, the Humanitarian of the Year, from the perspective of technology innovation.
8. Krishna Gopal Singh
Krishna Gopal Singh, CTO & Co-Founder of EnNatura Technology Ventures, Delhi has created an ecofriendly printing ink that reduces harmful emissions by almost 99 percent. Currently, he leads technology and product development at EnNatura.
9. Sameer Jain
Sameer Jain, MGV Dental College, Nashik, created an innovative root canal machine. The modified root canal obturation machine has a temperature modulator and a vibrator. The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has given me permission to try it on patients after my machine proved successful on extracted teeth, he added.
10. Harit Soni
Harit Soni, Ecolibrium Energy, Ahmedabad created a smart grid technology to optimize the use of electricity in India. The technology helps in optimizing the use of electricity and minimizing the wastage of fossil fuel besides reducing emission of greenhouse gases.
11. Mayur M. Sadawana
Mayur M. Sadawana, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai invented point-of-care multi-analyte sensor.
12. Sanjoy Ghosh
Sanjoy Ghosh, Logica India, Bangalore built a device that wirelessly monitors and reports vehicular emission in real-time. He is working as a Product Manager at Logica and is committed to create innovative and sustainable solutions for consumers and enterprises
13. Sagar Bedmutha
Sagar Bedmutha, Founder and CEO of Optinno Mobitech, Pune, developed an intelligent anti-spamming software for mobile phones. The applications of Optinno Mobitech namely Mobiwatchman and smsBlocker blocks unwanted calls and SMSes. It had won AppFAME contest by NASSCOM and won the Top App award from Forum Nokia.
14. Deepak Ravindran
Deepak Ravindran, Innoz Technologies, Gurgaon created a mobile based search engine to deliver information on any topic. He is the Co-Founder- Chief Executive Officer of Innoz Technologies.
15. Manav Bhatia
Manav Bhatia, Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore has been successful in creating innovative means of securing the Internet service provider's routing network.
16. Akshay Shah
Akshay Shah, iWeb Technology Solutions, Mumbai, developed a business process management generator which can create applications on the fly. This Suite has its own Rule Engine or Business Rules Management System (BRMS). This ensures that implementers do not have to repeatedly rely on software principals for critical but necessary customization of the product.
17. Akash Lal
Akash Lal, a research at Microsoft Research, Bangalore has developed methods to improve software quality using automated verification.
18. Sushant Sinha
Sushant Sinha, Indian Kanoon, Bangalore developed a search engine for Indian laws and court judgments. It breaks law documents into smallest possible clause and by integrates law/statutes with court judgments that allow automatic determination of the most relevant clauses and court judgments.
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