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Babak Parviz is the creator of Google Glass and a director at Google X. He has founded and let multiple efforts at Google including Google Glass and Smart Contact lenses.

Prior to Google he was the associate Director of the Micro-scale Life Sciences Center and a faculty member at the University of Washington.
He has been involved in a number of start-up companies focused on photonics and life sciences.

He received his BA in Literature, BS in Electronics, MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics, PhD in Electrical Engineering; and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
His interests span novel computing and communication paradigms, bionanotechnology, bioengineering, MEMS, and photonics.

His work has been put on display at the London Museum of Science and has received numerous recognitions and awards including NSF Career Award, MIT TR35, Time magazine’s best invention of the year (2008 and 2012), Your Health Top 10 Medical advance of the year, and About.com top invention and has been reported on in thousands of articles worldwide.

In 2012 he was selected by Ad Age as one of the 50 most creative people in the United States.

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