Sarang Nerkar

Founder and CEO  

Innosapien Agro Technologies  

Sarang Nerkar is an electrical and computer engineer from the University of Toronto, Canada. His research centers around wearable computing, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and computational photography.  

For over 3 years he served as a research scientist with Professor Steve Mann (also known as the “Father of Wearable Computing”) at the Humanistic Intelligence Lab, University of Toronto. Based on his research he has developed novel modular augmented reality eyeglasses, smart time-lapse cameras and various other wearable computing, augmented reality, computational photography and machine learning platforms. His work has resulted in various peer reviewed research publications, trade secrets and multiple patent filings. The focus of his work has been public sector application of these novel technologies via Innosapien Agro Technologies, a startup he founded.  

He also currently serves as the Climate Ambassador for India at the World Bank Group’s Global Youth Climate Network. His published work and products have received multiple accolades including the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award presented by the Honorable President of India, Zee Yuva Sanmaan, Top Innovator Award by World Bank Ag Observatory and Most Futuristic Award in Japan among others. His work was exhibited at the Presidential Palace in India for 6 days at the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  

He has been invited to present his work at various prestigious forums such as Defence Expo 2020 (Lucknow), Army Commanders Conference 2020 & 2019 (Delhi), Aero India 2019 (Bangalore), Viva Tech 2019 (Paris), ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 (Vancouver), ACM Tangible Embedded & Embodied Interactions 2017 (his work won the “Most Futuristic Award” at this conference in Japan), ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers 2017 (Hawaii), Hello Tomorrow 2017 (Korea), Asian Leaders Conference 2017 (Korea), Mobile World Congress 2017 (Barcelona), Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas), Canadian National Exhibition 2016 (Toronto), etc. He has been interviewed many times, including by Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (Discovery Science Channel), Zhejiang Provincial News (China), etc. for his work.