TEDx WPI

Speaking this Sunday will be Adam (AJ) Edelman, OLY (born March 14, 1991) is an American-Israeli four-time Israeli National
Champion in the skeleton event, and competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter
Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea. He is the first Orthodox Jew to compete in the Winter
Olympics, and the first Orthodox Jewish male to compete in either Olympic iteration.
After initially being told that he "lacked the skills necessary to become a competitive skeleton
athlete," Edelman pursued the sport, eventually qualifying for the Olympics and becoming Israel& #39;s
most decorated slider. Edelman holds Israeli track records on almost every track he has raced on,
and has competed in two World Championships for Israel. He has won two international medals in
competition, the most of Israeli sliding sport athletes.

Please help us welcome Sagar Mahurkar this Sunday April 14th at 1pm in Foisie!!

In his talk, Sagar Mahurkar will introduce Augmented Reality (AR), its impact and applications. He will share the journey of innovation leading to smartphones intelligently detecting objects and overlaying graphics on them.

For his research, Sagar won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE UEMCON 2018). He is a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Professional Honors Society and has been a reviewer of the recent publications on AR and AI.

He graduated with high distinction from WPI in 2017 and has since then initiated
and developed multiple projects related to AR, VR, and Video for Verizon.