1. Bedabrata Pain is an Indian scientist turned film director, producer and screenwriter.
11 Facts About Bedabrata Pain
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Bedabrata Pain was a member of the team that invented the CMOS image sensor.
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Bedabrata Pain has won National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for Chittagong.
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In 1993, Bedabrata Pain joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and later managed JPL's image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced development.
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Bedabrata Pain has published over 150 technical papers, and won several awards, including the Lew-Allen Award for Excellence.
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In 1990s, Bedabrata Pain was part of a team that invented the active pixel sensor technology that produced the world's smallest camera and has been inducted to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame.
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Bedabrata Pain had worked for NASA for 15 years as senior research scientist before quitting NASA in December 2008.
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Bedabrata Pain was the executive producer of the award-winning film Amu in 2005.
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Bedabrata Pain was the principal researcher for the documentary called Lifting the Veil on the impact of globalisation in India, and the writer of the book titled 'Behind the events in Kashmir'.
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Bedabrata Pain directed critically acclaimed film Chittagong starring Manoj Bajpai, Vega Tamotia, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Barry John and Dibyendu Bhattacharya.
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Bedabrata Pain, shot the film Chittagong with the same digital imaging technology that he with other NASA scientists had invented.