Innovators In Health was founded by a multi-disciplinary team of students and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including:
Manish Bhardwaj
Manish leads Innovators In Health and is responsible for group strategy, planning and execution. He is completing his doctorate in energy efficient wireless systems at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to his doctoral work, he was a co-founder and Vice President at Engim Inc., ... more ... a private venture backed wireless semiconductor startup. Engim's IP was acquired by Edgewater Systems, Canada. Manish has published more than 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and has won numerous awards including the IBM Research Fellowship, the MIT Graduate Student Council teaching award, the CrayQuest Gold Award for high performance computing, and the Compaq Gold Medal for graduating at the top of his class. Manish has a S.M. in EECS from MIT, and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He grew up in India and lived in Indonesia, Singapore and Austria prior to the U.S.
Sara Cinnamon
Sara is responsible for leading the mechanical design and development of the uBox. She also manages the design of promotional material and technical writing for IIH. Sara has prior entrepreneurial product design experience with MolySym and has independently contracted with companies such as Raytheon and Cuisinart. She also has several patents pending for ... more ... independent inventions. Sara is a member of Sigma Xi and Pi Tau Sigma honors societies, and has her Master's in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Goutam Reddy
'Greddy' devised the overall architecture of the uBox system. He is responsible for designing the electronics and firmware of the uBox and uKey. Greddy holds past EE design experience from working for MolySym as well as sensing and robotics from the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab. He also has relevant developing world experience from Developing World Prosthetics, ... more ... a non-profit he cofounded to improve low-cost rehabilitation devices. Greddy received a Master's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), as well as B.S. degrees in Mathematics and EECS from MIT.
Bill Thies
Bill is the architect of the first uPhone prototype and is working with Pallavi to deliver the second generation uPhone and server software. He is a final-year graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on programminglanguages for parallel computing ... more ... and biological lab-on-a-chip systems, as well as innovative technologies for the developing world. Bill has published over 25 peer-reviewed papers and is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies. He has been recognized as a Siebel Scholar, as well as a national co-winner of the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding EECS Student Award. Bill holds a B.S. in computer science, a B.S. in mathematics, and an M.Eng in computer science, all from MIT.
Emma Brunskill
Emma is helping develop software to visualize the patient data coming from the uPhone and uBox. She is a doctoral student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT where her research focuses on decision making under uncertainty and machine learning. She has previously worked on several international projects, including ... more ... helping develop a prototype scorecard for visualizing the financial impact a Peruvian microfinance organization had on its clients, and assisting with an educational infrastructure survey in Rwanda as part of a project to distribute computers in elementary schools.
Sourav Dey
Sourav is helping manage the trial team which is in charge of logistics, trial design, and training materials for the upcoming uBox/uPhone trials in Bihar. In addition, he is assisting with fundraising for IIH. He recently completed his PhD in signal processing at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sourav has published a number of papers in ... more ... signal processing and holds a number of patents in imaging and communications systems. He has won a number of awards including the Guillemin Thesis Award, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, and the Departmental Service Award. An active student leader, Sourav has been involved with the EECS Graduate Students Association and founded the EECS-REFS peer support program.
Seema Kacker
Seema Kacker joined IIH in January 2008 as part of the trial design team. She is helping to create specific protocols and materials, and is assisting in developing partnerships with various organizations for the upcoming trial. Seema is an undergraduate student at MIT majoring in economics and chemistry, and is particularly interested in health-related and development economics.
Pallavi Kaushik
Pallavi was instrumental in getting the uPhone effort started, and now focuses on the uPhone's wireless server, and technology to allow displays in Indic languages. She is a researcher at Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, and completed her Master's from the MIT Media Lab, where she worked on drug adherence for the elderly, among other things.
Jessica Leon
Jessica assists in mechanical design and testing of the uBox. She is a senior in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Jessica has been closely involved with community and development work at MIT. She managed membership development for the Society of Women Engineers for two years and was an associate adviser for the Experimental Study Group at MIT. In January 2008, ... more ... she participated in a three week trip to Peru organized by D-Lab that focused on development oriented engineering work with high potential impact. In addition to her constant volunteerism through local Boston organizations, she is also a member of the MIT women's rugby team.
Oliver Venn
Oliver assists in fund raising and strategy at I2H. He is an undergraduate student in mathematics and chemical engineering at MIT. He also studied mathematics while on exchange at Cambridge University. Oliver is the president of the National Society for Biological Engineers at MIT. He has received NCAA All American Academic Honors for for varsity water polo, as well as Cambridge University Half Blue sporting honors for varsity water polo.

The team with Andrey V. Pirogov, Assistant Director-General and Executive Director of the WHO Office at the UN.
