Pranav Mistry is one of the inventors of
Sixth Sense. He is a research assistant and a
doctoral candidate at the
MIT Media Lab.SixthSense has recently attracted
global attention. Pranav has a master's degree in
Media Arts and
Sciences from
MIT and a
Master of
Design from Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay as well as his
Bachelor's degree in
IT from Nirma Institute of
Technology, Ahmedabad.
Sixth Sense was awarded the 2009 Invention Award from Popular Science. Pranav also won the Young Innovator Award TR35 of Technology Review. In 2010 he was appointed to the creativity Creativity Magazine's 50 Mistry has been called "one of the top ten inventors in the world right now" by Chris Anderson.