Dr. K. Sankaran has been nominated by the Finnish Government for the prestigious Mission Innovation Champion Prize. The international jury representing 24 countries and the EU will select the final winners by the end of April 2020. Mission Innovation Champions are individuals with a track record of progressing creative new ideas that can drive the pace and scale of the clean energy revolution—the people who are inventing the products and services of the future or discovering the science that underpins them.
We have recently developed and prototyped a commercial-scale state-of-the-art blockchain tool for resource value-chain. An application of it has been recently demonstrated in a case study in India. The overview of this application has been recently accepted for publication in Administrative Sciences — Open Access MDPI Journal.
The paper is titled
“From Trash to Cash: How Blockchain and Multi-Sensor-driven Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Circular Economy of Plastic Waste?“Abstract: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/10/2/23PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/10/2/23/pdf
Dr. K. Sankaran has won the 2020 Mission Innovation Champion Award given by the consortium of 24 countries and the European Commission. More on the Mission Innovation Champions: https://www.michampions.net/meet-the-champions
