Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How MIT scientist Shriya Srinivasan’s ventilator tech is saving lives

by Chandu | Jul 13, 2021

When Shriya Srinivasan, a postdoctoral medical researcher at Harvard Medical School, came up with a ventilator multiplexer amidst a raging pandemic, she hoped to solve a million problems with one medical device. At the peak of the pandemic, a shortage of...

Gita Gopinath: The Mysuru Malayali helping stabilize the world economy as IMF chief economist

by Chandu | Jul 10, 2021

As a young girl, economist Gita Gopinath’s father would neatly line up vegetables on the family table to help her understand the concept of multiplication. Perhaps that explains her love for numbers. As she grew older Gita was big on athletics; but one day she...

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