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Dr. T. V. Raman is an Indian American computer scientist renowned for his work in accessibility research and advanced technology development. He earned his MSc in Mathematics from IIT Bombay in 1989 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1994. With over 25 years of leadership experience, he has made significant contributions to inclusive computing, particularly in developing tools that enhance digital access for all people in a universal format but provide accessibility for those who have difficulties accessing digital devices.
Raman (born 4 May 1965) specializes in accessibility research. His research interests are primarily in the areas of auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems, and IBM Research. He has been working at Google Research since 2005. Raman has himself been partially sighted since birth and blind since the age of 14. He has been recognised for his work in making science and mathematics accessible in the digital world for a wide range of the community of print challenge.
For any parent with a child or a child having either blindness, low vision, hearing hard, or with print challenges (a wide range of neurological conditions such as Dyslexia and the range of Specific Learning Differences (SLD), Autism, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, etc or having upper body handicap), Dr. T V Raman’s innovations and findings in the digital world enabled them to mainstream education through a digital device be it a Chromebook or a Windows / Android Laptop or an Android Tab or a most cost effective Android smartphones.
Learning mathematics and science is important for high-paying professions in technology and engineering, and most of the print challenge students are exceptional thinkers like Raman, but are kept away from securing admissions in worthy courses in science and technology.
All his innovation works through various operating systems that carry a Google Browser makes it universal, but vary through the capabilities of the screen readers it uses.
His favorite hobby is recreational mathematics, especially those that involve an intuitive feel for mathematics.
Raman lives in Boston with his wife Aarthi.
To know more on Raman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Raman