Pawan Sinha is a

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-based scientist who won the

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in 2012 . He is a Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work spans experimental and computational approaches to studying human visual cognition. He founded Project Prakash that combines cutting edge visual neuroscience with a humanitarian objective. Project Prakash sets up eye-care camps in some of the most habitually underserved regions of India, and since 2003 gives free eye-health screenings to more than 700 functionally blind children. The children are treated without charge, even those unsuitable for Sinha's research. His work has been featured in leading media, most notably for answering

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. He is one of the few scientists interviewed on ''

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External links

Pawan Sinha's MIT Lab websitePawan Sinha's interview at the American Psychological Association
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinha, Pawan Living people Indian neuroscientists Year of birth missing (living people) Asia Game Changer Award winners Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni IIT Delhi alumni Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers