Co-founder and Executive DirectorDigital Green Foundation
Rikin co-founded Digital Green as a research project on Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team. With a master’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Space Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, Rikin began his career at Oracle, researching and productizing a linguistic-based search system for text retrieval that used phonetic similarity and entity extraction for document matching, receiving two patents for the work.
Growing up, time spent in India's rural communities changed his life. He developed a passion for helping the country's smallholder farmers, whom he sees as heroes. He has been honored as a TED Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and won numerous awards from MIT Technology Review TR35 and the Stockholm Challenge, among others.
