Pranav Mistry (born 14 May 1981) is a

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and inventor. He was the President and CEO of STAR Labs (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs). He is best known for his work on

SixthSense SixthSense is a gesture-based wearable computer system developed at MIT Media Lab by Steve Mann in 1994 and 1997 (headworn gestural interface), and 1998 (neckworn version), and further developed by Pranav Mistry (also at MIT Media Lab), in 200 ...

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Galaxy Gear and Project Beyond.

Career

Mistry joined

as the Director of Research in 2012, and currently serves as the Global Vice President of it. He introduced

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in September 2013. Before joining MIT, Pranav worked as a UX Researcher with

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. In the past, he has worked with Google, CMU, NASA, UNESCO, Japan Science & Technology Agency. He was the Global Senior Vice President of search at

and the head of Think Tank Team. He is the President and CEO of STAR Labs since October 2019. He was honored as the 'Young Global Leader 2013' by the

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Inventions

Mistry is best known for his work on

.Popular Science
2009 Invention Award Among some of his other works, he has invented Mouseless – an invisible computer mouse; Sparsh – a novel way to copy-paste data between digital devices; Quickies – intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages; Blinkbot - a gaze and blink controlled robot; a pen that can draw in 3D; and a public map that can act as

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of physical world. Samsung at CES 2020 unveiled the world's first ‘artificial human’ dubbed Neon. Developed by Samsung's STAR labs's Pranav Mistry.

Recognition

Pranav's research on SixthSense was awarded the 2009 Invention Award by

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. He was also named to the

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

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as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. In 2010, he was named to Creativity Magazine's Creativity 50.2010 Creativity 50
List of 50 most influential and inspiring creative personalities of 2010 Mistry has been called "one of ten, best inventors in the world right now" by

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. Mistry has been listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by

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on 15 May 2011. GQ India listed Pranav as one of the most powerful Digital Indians. He was listed as one of the 37 Indians of Tomorrow by

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. Pranav Mistry was also honored as Young Global Leader 2013 by

Awards and achievements

* Young Global Leader 2013 Award, World Economic Forum * 50 Most Creative People of the Year 2010, CREATIVITY 50 *

2009 award, Technology Review * Invention of the Year 2009 award, Popular Science * Nominee for Forbes India's Person of the Year 2009

Personal life

Mistry was born in

Palanpur Palanpur is a city and a municipality of Banaskantha district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Palanpur is the administrative headquarters of Banaskantha district. Palanpur is the ancestral home to an industry of Indian diamond merchants. Ety ...

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

state of India. He married Farrah Chen.

References

External links

Pranav Mistry's personal homepage

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Think Tank Team homepage
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