Question: Name the Indian whose name has been announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its 2017 Scientific and Technical awards?
(a) Shubham Chatterjee
(b) Parag Havaldar
(c) Tapan Das
(d) C.V Subramaniam
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 4 January 2016; The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills.
- In this name of 18 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well as five organizations were announced.
- Indian-American Parag Havaldar, a computer engineer from IIT Kharagpur, is part of the Academy Awards’ list of winners for Techinical achievement.
- Havaldar is honoured for the development of expression-based facial performance-capture technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
- The awards will be handed out on February 11 in Beverly Hills, ahead of the main Oscar ceremony on February 26.
- The award is also known as Technical Oscar.
- Havaldar had done his B.Tech in computer science and engineering in 1991 from IIT.
Reference:
http://www.oscars.org/news/18-scientific-and-technical-achievements-be-honored-academy-awards-0
https://iitkgp.org/content/iit-kgp-alumnus-wins-oscar-sci-tech-award-2017
http://www.asianage.com/newsmakers/080117/iit-engineer-to-recieve-technical-award-at-oscars.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/education/iit-kharagpur-alumnus-parag-havaldar-wins-technical-achievement-oscar-4466819/