Question

This Indian engineer from Pune was part of the team that won an Oscar in 2018. Who is he?

a. Aziz Ansari
b. Naren Shankar
c. M. Night Shyamalan
d. Vikas Sathaye

Answer 1

This Indian engineer from Pune was part of the team that won an Oscar in 2018. Who is he?

a. Aziz Ansari
b. Naren Shankar
c. M. Night Shyamalan
d. Vikas Sathaye


Answer: D) Vikas Sathaye

Answer 2

d. Vikas Sathaye. He is an engineer who is from Mulund, Mumbai and was part of a team that received the scientific and engineering award at the Oscars 2018 Scientific and Technical Awards in February 2018.

All the four members of the team were awarded at Beverly Hills for "the design, concept, engineering and implementationof the Shotover K1 Camera System".

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expalins the "six-axis stabilized aerial camera mount" as one that has an "enhanced ability to frame shots while looking straight down".

Vikas had joined the company in 2009 while prior to it, he taught for seven years at Pune's Cummin's College of Engineering for Women.