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Ravi Bakaraju

Current positions held
Chairman and Managing Director of nthalmic group of companies.
Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
About
Associate Professor Ravi C Bakaraju is the founder and chairman of nthalmic.

Previously, Ravi held senior executive roles at the Brien Holden Vision Institute as Head / Deputy Head of Research & Development, where he oversaw all the institute’s translational research projects and innovation activities from 2017 to 2019.
Ravi is a lead inventor on numerous granted patents and several active patent applications around novel lens designs and concepts spanning myopia control technology, novel presbyopia correction and other innovative vision correction platforms. The Research & Development team led by Ravi developed innovative vision correction products that have translated into multiple commercial licenses for his previous employer.

Over the years, Ravi has co-authored 40+ peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts in the areas of visual optics, optical modelling techniques, presbyopic contact lenses, peripheral refraction, model eyes and general ophthalmic instrumentation. He has also co-authored about 65+ scientific abstracts. Ravi regularly presents at national and international venues.
Ravi has been a recipient of numerous international awards for his research accomplishments; which include the notable American Optometric Foundation’s William Ezell Fellowship in 2009; runner-up for 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science in 2014; and the prestigious Irvin M. and Beatrice Borish outstanding young scientist award from the American Academy of Optometry in 2015. He was awarded a distinguished certificate of recognition for outstanding achievements by the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute Alumnus in 2016.

Ravi is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), a member of Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), a member of British Contact lens Association (BCLA) and a member of International Society for Contact Lens Research.
Through his visiting appointment as a conjoint Associate Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, he currently supervises PhD candidates. Ravi is a voluntary anonymous reviewer for more than a dozen peer-review high-impact factor scientific journals.

Ravi was educated at the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India (through Bausch & Lomb School of Optometry, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad) graduating with a Bachelors in Optometry and Vision Sciences (2006). He topped his class with outstanding CGPA 9.73/10; he later earned a PhD in Optometry and Vision Sciences, working on a dissertation’ Optical performance presbyopic contact lenses using schematic and physical model eyes’, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2010. Following which, he served at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in numerous roles from 2010 to 2019.


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