Pratik Shah
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- MIT, Research Scientist
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2016
Pratik, a research scientist in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media lab, works at the intersection of nanotechnology, imaging, low cost diagnostics, entrepreneurship and scalable solutions for improving human health. Pratik has experience in vaccine design and discovery, applying throughput OMICS, nanotechnology and nucleic acid sequencing for biomedical research and drug discovery, microbial signaling systems, start-up and non-profit ventures. He also works on clinical images, with graphical interfaces, to isolate disease features and develop neural nets, which can automatically label and overlay high-dimensional medical images. Pratik has a BS, MS and a Ph.D in microbiology and completed fellowship training at the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.