Bedabrata Pain (Bengali: বেদব্রত পাইন; born 27 March 1963) is an Indian scientist turned film director, producer and screenwriter. Bedabrata Pain was also a member of the team that invented the CMOS image sensor. Bedabrata Pain has also won National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for Chittagong.

Biographie

Early life and education
Bedabrata's father was born in Dhaka and his mother came from Faridpur. Bedabrata Pain did his schooling in St. Lawrence High School in Calcutta & South Point High School and then studied Electronics & Electrical Comm. Engg. (ECE) in IIT Kharagpur(1982-1986), He got an Ivy League scholarship. Later he went to Columbia University, New York and received his M.S and Ph.D in Applied physics in 1992. His future wife Shonali Bose also did her Masters Degree in Political Science from Columbia University.


Academic career
In 1993, Bedabrata Pain joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and managed JPL’s image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced development. Since 1993, he was associated with NASA. Concurrent with his NASA work, he taught courses on CMOS imaging at UCLA, chaired international conferences, and was the invited speaker at several conferences. He has published over 150 technical papers, and won several awards, including the Lew-Allen Award for Inventors.


Invention
In 1990s,Bedabrata Pain along with his four friends 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. Now it is used from cell-phone cameras to movie cameras (such as those used by RED) to those in space telescopes.


Achievements and awards
Bedabrata Pain had worked for NASA for 15 years as senior research scientist before quitting NASA in December 2008. Pain has 87 invention patents to his credit.