Dr.Ramalatha Marimuthu,
Director, iExplore Foundation for Sustainable Development
Chair, IEEE MGA MRRC 2023, 2024
Ombudsman, IEEE Computer Society 2022,2023,2024
Dr Ramalatha Marimuthu, is an educator, entrepreneur and IEEE Impact Creator with passion towards Humanitarian Technology and Service Learning through Projects. She has vast experience in guiding the students in developing unique solutions for social problems like inclusiveness and accessibility in day-to-day life for people with special needs on which she has delivered lectures universities and conferences all over the world and in Google, Mountainview and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland..
Her areas of interest are assistive technology, women empowerment and effective education. She is the founder and General Chair of Youth Endeavours in Social Innovations through Science and Technology (YESIST12), an international talent show, covering more than 20 countries all over the world and encouraging students and young professionals to innovate for the benefit of humanity. Her passion for women empowerment has conceptualized into the International Returning Mothers Conference for which she is the Founder Chair. Pl see https://ieeeyesist12.org/ and https://lnkd.in/e8bcvqBm
Based on her work to improve the quality of life for the rural society she was awarded the “IEEE MGA Achievement Award”, 2008 and the “Life Time Achiever Award” by the Lions Club International, 2009 and the Mentor award by the Secretariat for the Disabled, the Government of Tamil nadu in 2009, IEEE MGA Leadership Award 2012 and Anita Borg Institute (ABI) Change Agent award 2012. She was awarded the “Systers Pass it on Award 2014” by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. She also won the “WIE Inspiring Member of the Year Award 2016” from IEEE Women in Engineering Committee. She became a IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member in 2020. She received the 2021 Larry K Wilson Transnational Award for the conceptualization of IEEE YESIST12 and recently “Youth Curator Excellence Award” by the Rotary Club of Coimbatore West in 2024.