Hyderabad, Mar 22 (IBNS)

Two Hyderabad researchers — Anthony Vipin Das of LV Prasad Eye Institute and Hemanth Kumar Satyanarayana of Imaginate Software Labs — have been chosen to the MIT Technology Review’s India TR35 list of young Technology Innovators under 35 for 2012.

They will present their innovation to an audience of 500 innovators including six scientists and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the fourth emerging technologies conference of MIT Technology Review’s, EmTech India, starting March 27 at Banaglore. 

Anthony Vipin Das, 28, created an application for digitizing medical records at Hyderabad’s LV Prasad Eye Institute, (LVPEI), one of the India’s largest eye hospitals that has treated over 13 million patients till date.

Designed by Das, the paperless system spans the entire LVPEI pyramid and allows a doctor to access the medical records of a patient from any of its clinics.

EyeSmart is a distributed database linked to a central database which makes the data at all urban and rural centers available in real time.

Hyderabad based Hemanth Kumar Satyanarayana of Imaginate Software Labs found that the experience of an average customer in apparel stores isn’t as pleasant as it was a few years ago, with increasing footfalls.

With shortage of space and no scope for expansion, demand for trial rooms has increased and trial room management by the store owner has become even more difficult and demanding.

Satyanarayana came up with a technology alternative to the physical trial room, in the form of an augmented reality enabled “virtual trial room” experience.

Called Trialar, his innovation is a digital interactive platform that helps shoppers try out clothes and accessories instantaneously, virtually, and seamlessly.

The India TR35 members from Bangalore include Shirish Goyal, 27, of LinkSmart Technologies for creating fool-proof security to prevent data theft; Sumeet Yamdagni, 29, of Instrumentation Scientific Technologies for inventing Optical instruments for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors and Vikas Malpani, 28, of MaxHeap Technologies for bringing communities on a common floor.

Bangalore’s Anirudh Sharma, 24, of Ducere Technologies was named the Innovator of the Year for creating Haptic shoe for the visually impaired.

Animesh Nandi, 33, of Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent for devising personalized privacy frameworks.

Nandi was the only India TR35 member from a Bangalore based multi-national while the rest were from local enterprises.

The list of 20 innovators from Biomedicine (2), Communications (2), Computing (4), Energy (2), Materials (3), Transportation (2) and Web (5) under the age of 35 for 2012 was announced by the India edition of MIT Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology publication, in Bangalore Sunday.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, has emerged as India’s hottest technology innovation center with three of its researchers VSK Murthy Balijepalli, 26; Nitin Joshi, 28; and Vanteru Mahendra Reddy, 30, making it to the ‘India TR35 2012 list of young technology innovators’.

While VSK Murthy Balijepalli of IIT Mumbai was chosen to be part of the India TR35 list for developing a novel method to forecast electricity price, grid frequency and load which can assist in making power grids smarter, Nitin Joshi (also of IIT Mumbai) made to the list for developing dual compartment nanostructures which can encapsulate two anticancer drugs, paclitaxel and curcumin, and deliver them in combination to lung cancer patients.

Thirty-year-old Mahendra Reddy was chosen for his work on the development of a laboratory scale flameless combustion with liquid fuels by design at IIT Mumbai.

Abhijit Majumder, 33, from IIT, Kanpur, is another notable winner for his highly innovative chemical adhesives that mimic some natural principles.

The only woman innovator in this year’s list is Priyanka Sharma, 28, from CSIR-run Institute of Microbial Technology in Chandigarh.

She developed a plastic chip which uses simple assay techniques to detect toxic materials in the environment quickly and cost effectively.

Abhijeet Joshi, 28, from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad, is the sixth public institute winner.

Using nanotechnologies, Joshi has developed a multifunctional implantable platform to aid disease diagnosis and drug delivery simultaneously.

“It is heartening to see IITs solving unique Indian problems. This culture of innovation in public institutions will enthuse thousands of bright students pursuing technical programs,” said Pradeep Gupta, Publisher of Technology Review India and a distinguished alumnus of IIT Delhi.

“Indian youth will be attracted to this innovation ecosystem and India will benefit from their work in the near future,” Gupta added.

List of India TR35 2012

BIOMEDICINE

Abhijeet Joshi, 28, Nanosensors in microspheres, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad

Nitin Joshi, 28, Making chemotherapy non-invasive, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

COMMUNICATIONS

Shaunak Khire, 22, Enabling businesses to advertise through mobile phone, Camber Tech, Pune

Venkatesan Oosur Vinayagam, 28, Mobile antakshari, Hexolabs Interactive Technologies, Chennai, Social Innovator of the year

COMPUTING

Anthony Vipin Das, 28, Digitizing medical records, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad

Shirish Goyal, 27, Fool-proof security to prevent data theft, LinkSmart Technologies, Bangalore

Sumeet Yamdagni, 29, Optical instruments for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors,

Instrumentation Scientific Technologies, Bangalore

Hemanth Kumar Satyanarayana, 29, Virtual trial rooms, Imaginate Software Labs, Hyderabad

ENERGY

VSK Murthy Balijepalli, 26, Forecasting the price and load of electricity, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Vanteru Mahendra Reddy, 30, Flameless combustion with liquid fuels, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

MATERIALS

Abhijit Majumder, 33, Making stronger adhesives that can imitate nature, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Vivek Nair, 23, Carbon nanotubes from carbon emissions, Damascus Fortune, Mumbai

Priyanka Sharma, 28, Plastic biochip electrochemical sensor for immunosensing applications,

Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

TRANSPORTATION

Somnath Ray, 35, A viable para-transit mode of mobility, Dplay, Delhi

Humanitarian of the Year

Anirudh Sharma, 24, Haptic shoe for the visually impaired. Ducere Technologies, Bangalore

Innovator of the Year

WEB

Sachin Dev Duggal, 28, Moving desktop computer into the cloud, Nivio Technologies, Gurgaon

Unni Koroth, 26, Open source platform for institute management, Foradian Technologies, Kasaragod

Vikas Malpani, 28, Bringing communities on a common floor, MaxHeap Technologies, Bangalore

Jay Meattle, 29, Demand side platform for selling ad inventories, Shareaholic.com, Delhi

Animesh Nandi, 33, Personalized privacy frameworks, Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore