Pranav Mistry
Research Assistant and PhD candidate at Media Lab, MIT
- Greater Boston Area
- Computer Software
- Current
- Research Assistant and PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab
- Past
- Visiting Researcher at JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project
- Research Intern at Microsoft Research
- Research Intern at Gloabal Connection Project (NASA, CMU, Google, Unesco)
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Websites
Pranav Mistry's Summary
Pranav is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the Media Lab,MIT. Pranav's research interests include intelligent interactive systems, social computing, HCI, technology to masses, and robotics. He got his master and bachelor degree from IIT Bombay, India, and has the background in Computer Science, and Design.
Specialties
incubation management, user experience design, software architecture, system design, hardware prototyping
Pranav Mistry's Experience
Research Assistant and PhD candidate
MIT Media Lab
Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry
September 2006 – Present (4 years 9 months)
Visiting Researcher
JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project
Research industry
November 2009 – January 2010 (3 months)
Research Intern
Microsoft Research
Public Company; MSFT; Research industry
June 2009 – August 2009 (3 months)
Research Intern
Gloabal Connection Project (NASA, CMU, Google, Unesco)
Government Agency; Research industry
July 2007 – August 2007 (2 months)
UX Researcher
Microsoft
Public Company; Computer Software industry
June 2005 – August 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Intern in Incubation Team
Microsoft
Public Company; Computer Software industry
May 2004 – July 2004 (3 months)
Pranav Mistry's Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Media Arts and Sciences
2008 – 2011 (expected)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS, Media Arts and Sceinces
2006 – 2008
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
MDes, Design
2003 – 2005
Gujarat University
BE, Computer Science and Engineering
1999 – 2003
Pranav Mistry's Additional Information
- Websites:
- Honors and Awards:
- Patents: Digital user interface for inputting Indic scripts (20070174771) Radio frequency control of computing system (1416/DEL/2006) Start menu display model (1417/DEL/2006) Multi-mode multimedia device and computing system (WO/2007/124083) (1418/DEL/2006) Task-oriented start menu (1419/DEL/2006) Hardware control initiated task switching (1420/DEL/2006) Single hardware control initiated switching between application and utilities (1422/DEL/2006) Awards: INVENTION OF THE YEAR 2009 award by Popular Science 2nd in SPACE competition in SIGGRAPH2004. 1st in Innovation Fair at India level, for MARBO. Best Paper in USID2007 for ‘Akshar’. 3rd in National Open Hardware at IIT Bombay for DATAG2.02 3rd in Creative art competition organized by ISRO. 1st in Design competition organized by IEEE. Dirubhai Ambani Foundation Award for securing 1st rank in district (SSC). 2nd in on the spot Model Making contest at techfest2001 at IIT Bombay.
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