Pratheev is a physicist and inventor from Cambridge, Massachusetts and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University.  His passion for computational algorithms has taken him from origami-inspired manufacturing to flapping wing flight dynamics to artificial intelligence.  Pratheev is a recipient of Technology Review’s TR35 award, naming the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35.  He has also received awards from the Boston Museum of Science and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, and on NPR and the Discovery Channel.