Ravi Poovaiah
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Professor Ravi Poovaiah | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Academician, Designer |
| Notable work | co-designed Electronic Voting Machine |
Ravi Poovaiah, is a Professor and Emeritus Fellow[1] at the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and a co-designer of the Indian electronic voting machine[2][3]
Poovaiah has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, a degree in Product Design and Graphic Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA and an M.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay.[4] At IIT Bombay, Poovaiah holds the D L Shah Chair for Innovation. He is the Coordinator of the 'e-Kalpa' project,[3] that is sponsored by the MHRD, co-director of ‘The Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC)’, a collaborative initiative between IIT Bombay, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore[5] and the principal investigator of the D'Source project.[6] Poovaiah has been instrumental in pushing for open sourcing of design[7] and design education in schools.[3]
