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Congratulations! Indian Engineer With His Team Awarded For Oscar In Sci-Tech

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Vikas Sathaye, an Indian-born engineer, from Mumbai awarded for Oscars 2018 Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday. The ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills in which all the four members of the team (Brad Hurndell, John Coyle Shane Buckham and Vikas Sathaye) was felicitated for the concept, design, engineering and implementation of the Shotover K1 Camera System. 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences described the camera system as a ‘six-axis stabilised aerial camera mount’ that has an ‘enhanced ability to frame shots while looking straight down. The system has worked on over a hundred different feature films, including The Hobbit, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Spectre, Deepwater Horizon, Spider-man: Homecoming, and Dunkirk. 

‘The camera mount attaches to the base of a helicopter, which carries the camera and lens. Its primary function is to eliminate vibration which affects steady footage. The secondary function of the mount is to move the camera head in the desired direction as required by the operator who sits inside the helicopter and uses a joystick to control the camera movement,’ Sathaye told the press.

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Sathaye completed a BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and then proceeded to Indian Institute of Science for an MTech in Electronics and Instrumentation.In 1992, he joined an engineering college as an Assistant Professor and stayed on for six years. He started working as an Assistant Manager for Honeywell Process Solutions in 1999. During the next 10 years, he changed a few jobs while working in the embedded systems industry. Finally, in March 2009 he took up a position at Shotover Camera System in New Zealand’s Queenstown where the award-winning technology was developed.

Sathaye told the press that in 2009 he joined a brand new firm referred to as Shotover Digicam Techniques in Queenstown, New Zealand, which is the place he labored on the aerial mount. “One of many causes to start out this firm in Queenstown was the pure magnificence and gorgeous surroundings which are a magnet for a number of movie producers and administrators,” he said.

Congratulations to the Oscar winners!

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