Project Prakash
The Project Prakash Team
Founder
Pawan Sinha, Ph.D., Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, MIT
Board of Directors
Amy Chu, M.B.A, the publisher of Alpha Girl Comics, Co-President of the Harvard Business School Asian American Alumni Association, member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Board
Laura Flug, Director of the American Technion Society, and board of the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Commack, New York
Pamela R. Lipson, Ph.D., Founder of Imagen Incorporated
Sanjoy Mitter, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Science Team
Priti Gupta, Ph.D., Research Coordinator
Kashish Tiwari, Optometrist and Assistant to Research Coordinator
Sidney Diamond., Research Affiliate, Pawan Sinha’s Lab for Vision Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Sharon Gilad-Gutnick, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, and Project Prakash
Shlomit Ben-Ami, MD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Pawan Sinha’s Lab for Vision Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, and Project Prakash
Sruti Raja, Research fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Tapan Gandhi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, and Research Affiliate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Medical Team
Dr. Suma Ganesh., Associate Medical Director, Head of Paediatric ophthalmology and Strabismus and Head of Medical Education Department at Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye hospital, Delhi
Dr. Umang Mathur, Associate Director and head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, Delhi
Project Prakash Charitable Trust (PPCT) Team
Ajay Kumar Chawariya, Executive Director, PPCT
Rakesh Kumar,Assistant Program Manager – Planning & Implementation, PPCT
Himanshu Kumar, Admin & Accounts Officer, PPCT
Vidya Prakash, Prakash Vision Centre (PVC) Coordinator
Ravikant Gautam, Optometrist, Prakash Vision Centre (PVC), Pali, Gorakhpur
Sunil Yadav, Optometrist, Prakash Vision Centre (PVC), Brahmpur, Gorakhpur
Sanjeev Kumar, Attendant-cum-Receptionist, Prakash Vision Centre (PVC), Pali, Gorakhpur
Shambhu Kumar Gautam, Attendant-cum-Receptionist, Prakash Vision Centre (PVC), Brahmpur, Gorakhpur
Shakeela Bi, Senior Counselor-cum-Patient Coordinator with Project Prakash India Office (New Delhi)
Consultants
Annie Cardinaux, Autism Project Coordinator, Pawan Sinha’s Lab for Vision Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Darius Sinha, IT Specialist, Project Prakash
Margaret Kjelgaard, Research Affiliate, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute for Brain Research Cambridge