ID Hack 2014 Judges
Vitor Pamplona is co­founder and CTO of a spin­off from the MIT Media Lab called
EyeNetra Inc. PhD on Computer Science, Vitor created award­winning two­dollar
smartphone snap­ons to measure refractive errors and map cataracts and a new
3D display that eliminate the need of corrective eyeglasses. He is also known for
co­founding one of the largest collaboration platforms for software engineers
reaching 50k portuguese­speaking developers in the early 2000s and creating the
first 3D game engine for feature phones.
Eric Reynolds co­instructs MIT’s D­Lab Design for Scale class and manages the
D­Lab Scale­Ups Fellowship program — providing support to MIT alums who’ve
founded tech­based social ventures. He started at D­Lab in 2010 and was
formerly a member of Zimba, a safe water social enterprise, and worked at
Battelle Memorial Institute and the New England Complex Systems Institute.
Akshar is a senior at MIT majoring in Chemical Engineering and Economics with
minors in Energy Studies and Public Policy. He is a Legatum Fellow for
Development & Entrepreneurship and the chair of the Energy & Entrepreneurship
Community of the MIT Energy Club. He has worked on a start­up called BioBatts
for the past two years, which aimed to develop and disseminate microbial power
generators in off­grid villages for lighting applications. Currently, he is working on
another start­up, PedalPower, which is also targeting off­grid lighting in villages in
Northern India.
Nicole is a developer­consultant based out of ThoughtWorks' San Francisco
office. She graduated in 2012 with a physics degree. She is proud of the work
that ThoughtWorks does in what we call the P3 (social justice) space, and
very excited to learn more about all these great initiatives going on at IDHack
2014. Happy hacking, everyone