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2022 Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Awards

Student Winner, 2nd Place

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Pritam Poddar

Ph.D. Engineering

Pritam comes from the city of Kolkata, in West Bengal, India. After following his elder brother's footsteps and studying Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, Pritam came to RIT for a Masters in Industrial Engineering. There he met, Dr. Denis Cormier, one of the most renowned experts in the field of additive manufacturing/3D Printing. Denis supervised Pritam's Master's thesis and invited him to join as a Ph.D. student in 2015 at the newly founded AMPrint Center, an New York State Center of Advanced Technology. In 2020, Pritam founded a startup called PRISAM LLC to commercialize his Ph.D. research. Currently, PRISAM has four full-time cofounders and has raised $360,000 in dilutive and non-dilutive funding for technology commercialization. Pritam is coached and mentored by highly successful engineers, entrepreneurs, and leaders. His goal is to become a high-performance leader and a coach and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs.

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