6 leading MIT researchers to address EmTech sessions in Bangalore

Bangalore: Six scientists and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be in India this weekend to participate in the fourth emerging technologies conference of MIT Technology Review's, EmTech India, starting March 27.

These scientists include George Westerman, MIT Centre for Digital Business; Marie-Jose Montpetit, MIT Research Lab of Electronics and Shiladitya Sengupta, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

They will deliver keynote addresses on day one of the conference, where over 500 innovators will get an insight into the work being done in digital transformation; network designs in the social world and the innovation ecosystem and how it can impact society.

On day 2, Brian Anthony, MIT's Department of Engineering in Manufacturing Program; Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Joseph Paradiso, MIT Media Laboratory will speak on concepts and interplay between medical imaging, manufacturing inspection and video analytics; energy efficient systems in biology, engineering and medicine and the emerging nervous system of ubiquitous sensing.

The US-based director of GE's global research Mark M Little will deliver the inaugural address. Mark, the 9th director of GE's global research in its 108-year history, leads a team of nearly 3000 researchers who work with GE businesses around the world - from aviation to energy and healthcare to electronics.

For a nation of a billion cricket fans, the organisers--MIT's Technology Review--have appropriately dedicated a session to technology in cricket, where Siddharth Khullar, a doctoral candidate in imaging science from Rochester Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab along with College of Engineering, Pune student Chinmaya Joshi will show case new advances in technology that may put an end to all the controversies and appeals in the field of international cricket.