KIET

Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology well known by its acronym "KIET" has been established in the year 2001. We started KIET W for women in 2008 and KIET II in 2009 which speak volumes of our sucess over time.

Main objective of KIET

That economic and academic backwardness should not be an obstacle to avail the opportunities of life chances available in the society. That every individual should be helped and assisted in growing up to his fullest potential through learning and higher education.

Placements in KIET

Mr.Y.Rama Krishna, TPO, to look after the Placement activities of the College in order to strengthen the Placement activities. Besides this, the college is formally taking part in the Campus Placement Mission and JKC Programme, which are organized by JNTU, Kakinada. We are inviting different Companies personnel to conduct interviews to the students for strengthening the Placement activities.

Student Life @ KIET

Whatever your dreams, KIET provides you with opportunities to succeed. Produce a concert, join a team, act in a play, write for the newspaper, or start your own clubs. It's all possible at KIET!

Push me

Please Push The Button, but be warned, push it only once, or face the consequences!!!!

Sunday 22 May 2011

Pranav Mistry Bio


Pranav Mistry

Research Assistant and PhD candidate at Media Lab, MIT
Greater Boston Area
Computer Software
Current
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
  • Gujarat University
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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