Ravi Poovaiah

Ravi Poovaiah, is a Professor and Emeritus Fellow^[1] at the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and a co-designer of the Indian electronic voting machine^[2][3]

Professor Ravi Poovaiah
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Academician, Designer
Notable work	co-designed Electronic Voting Machine

Career

Poovaiah has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, a degree in Product Design and Graphic Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA and an M.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay.^[4] At IIT Bombay, Poovaiah holds the D L Shah Chair for Innovation. He is the Coordinator of the 'e-Kalpa' project,^[3] that is sponsored by the MHRD, co-director of ‘The Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC)’, a collaborative initiative between IIT Bombay, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore^[5] and the principal investigator of the D'Source project.^[6] Poovaiah has been instrumental in pushing for open sourcing of design^[7] and design education in schools.^[3]

Notable students

• Pranav Mistry^[8]

Selected publications

• Design for Tomorrow―Volume 1: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021: 221 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies) ^[9]
• Design for Tomorrow-Volume 2: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021^[4]
• Design for Tomorrow―Volume 3: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021: 223 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies)^[10]