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The World Health Organization (WHO) reports there are more than 285 million visually-impaired people worldwide including 40 million in India. There is a strong passion, desire and need to develop assistive technology devices to support visually-impaired people to empower them to live with independence and dignity by improving the quality of their lives.

This talk presents the work of ASSISTECH, IIT Delhi in developing solutions aimed at independent mobility and education of visually impaired in India and other low-income countries. Some of the innovations includes such as SmartCane Device or OnBoard Bus identification system.

Speaker Bio: M. Balakrishnan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Delhi. He obtained his B.E.(Hons.) in

Electronics & Electrical Eng. from BITS Pilani in 1977 and Ph.D. from EE Dept. IIT Delhi in 1985. He has nearly 44 years teaching and research

experience. At IIT Delhi, he has held many senior academic leadership positions. ASSISTECH, a laboratory and research group founded by him along with Prof. P.V.M. Rao (Mech Eng.), is involved in developing a number of assistive devices targeted towards mobility and education of the visually impaired. He has been recipient of three national awards, ACM Eugene L Lawler award and very recently IIT Delhi's Life Time award for his work in the disability space.

This is brought to you by IIT AGNE in partnership with Vision-Aid.

Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Assistech Lab, Room No. 009 Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of IT - Main Building, Jia Sarai, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, Delhi 110016
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