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Prasant Potuluri is the Chief Technology Officer at Centice Corporation. In his role as the CTO, Potuluri identifies and evaluates new technology, provides strategic vision and direction to the engineering group. He has pursued several federal grants for Centice and has won close to $1.4 million in research funds. He also strategically manages the Intellectual portfolio of the company. Prior to co-founding Centice in 2004, he has been a graduate research assistant at Duke University and has been developing the company�s core computational sensor technology platform. His PhD thesis titled, Multiplexed Optical Sensors for Reference Structure Tomography and Compressive Spectroscopy is the first demonstration of compressive sampling, a revolutionary concept. In 2004, Potuluri has been awarded John T. Chambers Fellow for demonstrating excellence in classroom activities, research activities and for participation in Duke Activities. Potuluri played a critical role in winning the grand prize at the Duke Startup Challenge. Potuluri obtained a PhD from Duke University, a Masters degree from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a Bachelors degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Potuluri is a member of the Optical Society of America, SPIE and Sigma-Xi. He has founded Duke Chapter of the Optical Society of America and held the office of the President for the chapter during 2003-2004. | 