2011 TED Fellows and 2011 Senior Fellows

It is a great honor to announce today that I am a 2011 TED Senior Fellow.

Thanks to the TED organizers and the wonderful people that supported my application. Most of the projects I work on are collaborative, so this success is not only mine, but belongs to every person that was kind to work with me. Thank you very much. I will do my best to promote our collective actions. This also strongly encourages me to push my efforts in developing Oil Spill cleaning technologies here in the Gulf of Mexico. 
I hope I will have the pleasure to see you at
- TED 2011February 28-March 4, 2011: Long Beach, CA, USA.
- TED GlobalJuly 11-15, 2011: Edinburgh, Scotland.
Again, thanks to all the amazing people I have been working with, let's keep going stronger.
I will have the immense privilege to hang out and share ideas with the following brilliant individuals : 

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2011 TED Fellows
http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/552

  • James Patten (US) A US-based inventor who is exploring new ways that physical objects can represent and control digital information
  • Chris Woebken (US / Germany) A German-American interaction designer whose installations create novel relationships between humans and animals
  • Yara Shaban (Jordan) A Jordanian electrical engineer who's working to engage women in technology education and development in the Middle East
  • Camille Seaman (US) A Native American photographer whose work captures the harsh beauty of remote Arctic landscapes
  • Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (Chile / UK / DRC) A Chilean primatologist who studies play behavior among bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Prumsodun Ok (US / Cambodia) A Cambodian-American choreographer and performance artist whose work merges classical Cambodian and modern dance
  • Sey Min (Korea) A Korean data-visualization designer who works with live data sets to creatively display information
  • Luke Hutchison (US / New Zealand) A computer scientist and computational biologist from New Zealand who is looking for the structural blueprints of life
  • Sumit Dagar (India) An Indian interaction designer and filmmaker working on the Braille Phone, a mobile phone for the blind
  • Kaustuv De Biswas (India/US) A US- and India-based entrepreneur whose experimental design firm, dplay, is building open-source toolboxes for design
  • Xavier Vilalta (Spain) A Spanish architect whose firm, XV Studio, uses fractal geometry to innovate in the built environment
  • Suzanne Lee (UK) A British artist and fashion designer who "grows" clothing with bacteria
  • Skylar Tibbits (US) An American artist and computational architect working on "smart" components that can assemble themselves
  • Yale Fox (Canada / US) A New York City-based DJ who studies the mystery of why humans love music
  • Minou Norouzi (UK / Austria / Iran) An Austrian-Iranian moving-image artist whose work reveals the curiosities of ordinary life
  • Marcin Jakubowski (US) A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US
  • Joshua Roman (US) An American cellist who, before his international solo career, was the principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony at age 22
  • Nina Tandon (US) An American electrical engineer and research scientist who explores how electrical stimulation encourages tissue growth
  • Sanjana Hattotuwa (Sri Lanka) A Sri Lankan human-rights activist and founder of Groundviews, a citizen-journalism initiative

 

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2011 TED Senior Fellow
http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/553

  • Jessica Green (US) Professor at the University of Oregon's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology whose research focuses on microbial diversity
  • Robert Gupta (US) Indian American violinist and musical activist, youngest member of Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Cesar Harada (France | Japan | US) Coordinator of the Open_Sailing project, developing open-source technologies for the International_Ocean_Station and oil spill remediation robotics.
  • Mitchell Joachim (US) Professor at NYU and co-founder of Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, non-profit design groups that promotes ecological design in cities
  • Manu Prakash (India | US) Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows, physicist and inventor pursuing research in the field of physical biology
  • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan | Canada) Documentary filmmaker and founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, an educational institution and heritage center established to preserve Pakistan's history
  • Awab Alvi (Pakistan) Pakistani dentist, orthodontist and author of Teeth Maestro, a prominent Pakistani political blog
  • Alanna Shaikh (US | Tajikistan) Global health and development specialist and author of the international development focused-blog, Blood and Milk
  • Aparna Rao (India) A part of the Bangalore-based artist duo Pors & Rao who works with electro-mechanical systems and interactive installations
  • Saeed Taji Farouky (Palestine | UK) Documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer focusing on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Candy Chang (US) Public installation artist, designer, urban planner, and co-founder of Civic Center, an urban design studio in New Orleans
  • Esra'a Al Shafei (Bahrain) Bahraini human rights activist + founder of MideastYouth.com, a grassroots digital network facilitating the struggle against oppression in the Middle East & North Africa


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