Swami Manohar

Swami Manohar, otherwise known as Manohar Swaminathan, is a co-founder and the CEO of PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd. He completed his undergraduate program in

Electronics and Communication Engineering in Government College of Technology

,

University of Texas. While at IISc, he co-invented the Simputer, was awarded the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in IT, and pioneered the faculty entrepreneurship activity at IISc, which has since catalyzed similar activity in IITs and other educational institutes in India. He co-founded Strand Life Sciences

(formerly Strand Genomics), and String Labs, the first academic incubating company in India.

Swami Manohar has contributed to research in Computer graphics, visualisation, virtual reality and CAD for rapid prototyping. He has been the thesis advisor for over forty graduate students including three PhDs. As CEO of PicoPeta he was instrumental in converting the prototype of the Simputer into a real commercial product, the Amida Simputer, India's first commercial handheld product. His broad interest is in the area of societal impact of information and communication technologies.

In 2005, PicoPeta was acquired by Geodesic Information Systems, and Swami Manohar assumed the additional role of Chief IP and Strategy Officer of Geodesic.[1]

Elina Networks has elected Dr. Swami Manohar to its board of directors. He is a Founder and Managing Director at Limberlink Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

The Jed-i Gifted Engineering program is started by Dr Swami Manohar and Dr V Vinay who are former professors of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Science.^[2] It is their way of sharing the Joy of Engineering, Design and Innovation with young engineers who they hope will go on to build the next generation of global companies out of India.

Swami Manohar is currently at Microsoft Research as senior Researcher in the Technologies for Emerging markets group. Currently working on technologies for accessibility (improving the productivity of blind programmers) and IoT for emerging markets.

Academic interests

Parallel and VLSI architectures and algorithms for graphics and visualization
Interactive sculpting
Voxel-based CAD tools for layered manufacturing
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
Internet Technologies

References

^ "Itihaasa".
^ "Jed-i - Joy of Engineering, Design and Innovation". jed-i.in. Retrieved 16 October 2015.

External links

[1] "Itihaasa".

[2] "Jed-i - Joy of Engineering, Design and Innovation". jed-i.in. Retrieved 16 October 2015.

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