Ravi Poovaiah

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Professor Ravi Poovaiah
Nationality Indian
Occupation(s)Academician, Designer
Notable workco-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]

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Career

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]

Notable students

Selected publications

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