Gujju Rocks – Pranav Mistry
- Reliance Jio company investment of $ 15 million in Silicon Valley based startup TWO platform acquiring 25% stake.
- Pranav Mistry is president and CEO of startup TWO company. This start up is working on AI / ML, AR, Metaverse and Web 3.0.
- He is from Palanpur, small town of Gujarat, India.
- He dropped architecture school prior to that Palanpur.
- He served as CEO and President of Samsung Technology and Advanced Research.
- Before Samsung, he was a Research Assistance and final year Ph. D candidate at the MIT Media Lab.
- He also works with Google, CMU, NASA, UNESCO, Japan Science and Technology and Microsoft.
- He received in Master Degree in Media Arts and Science from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay.
- He loves to see technology from design perspective and vice versa.
Education
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Sr. No |
Year |
Education |
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1 |
1986 – 1999 |
School Education , Vidya Mandir |
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2 |
1999 |
Bachelor’s Degree at CEPT University, Drop out |
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3 |
1999 – 2003 |
BE Computer Science and Engineering |
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4 |
2003 – 2005 |
Master in Design, IIT Bombay |
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5 |
2006 – 2008 |
MS , Media Arts and Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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6 |
2008 – 2012 |
Ph. D , Media Arts and Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Experience
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Sr. No |
Year |
Job / Experience / Research |
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1 |
May 2004 to July 2004 |
Intern in Incubation team ( Microsoft ) |
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2 |
May 2003 to June 2005 |
Research Assistance in IIT , Bombay |
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3 |
June 2005 to Aug 2006 |
Director, Intern in Incubation team ( Microsoft ) |
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4 |
July 2007 to Sep 2007 |
Researcher , CMU, Google , NASA, UNSECO |
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5 |
July 2007 to Sep 2007 |
Researcher, NASA |
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6 |
June 2009 to Aug 2009 |
Researcher ( Microsoft ) |
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7 |
Nov 2009 to Jan 2010 |
Visiting Researcher , Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST ) |
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8 |
Sep 2006 to April 2012 |
Research Assistant and Ph. D Candidate ( MIT Media lab ) |
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9 |
Nov 2017 to Oct 2019 |
Head of Innovation ( Samsung Mobile ) |
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10 |
Sep 2019 to June 2021 |
President and CEO , Star Labs |
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11 |
Oct 2021 to Feb 2022 |
Senior Advisor – D. One Vision Management ( DOV ) |
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12 |
July 2021 |
Founder and CEO of TWO Company |
Some of Achievement
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Year |
Some of Achievement |
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2007 |
His Paper – “Akshar” won best paper award in conference in Hyderabad, India |
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2008 |
Research work Quickies – Intelligent sticky notes was featured in press among Discovery news channel, popular science, The Tech Herald, Gizmo do, Engadget & Slashdot |
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2009 |
Won Technology Review TR35 Young Inventor Award. He joined Microsoft Research in Redmond as Research intern for the summer. His – Sixth sense wins invention of the year 2009 award by popular science This sixth sense was featured in press among – New York times, Wired news, Fox news, Mumbai mirror, Times of India, The Sydney morning herald, Slashdot Engadget, Sina.com, CNET news and many more |
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2010 |
He won – Netexplorateurs of the year 2010 award. He is in list of – 50 Most creative people of the year 2010 ( CREATIVITY 50 ) |
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2011 |
He got married with Yijia on 9th December, 2011. |
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2012 |
Started a team of ninjas at Samsung- think tank team ( TTT ) Received young alumnus award by IIT , Bombay |
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2013 |
He is honored as – young global leader 2013 by world economic forum |