Pulin M. Raje , MS

Fellow


Stanford, CA

2009-2010 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow

Pulin, a 2009 Stanford India Biodesign Fellow, is a product designer with three years of experience in creating a broad spectrum of products. He received his graduate degree in Product Design from Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a mechanical engineer from the University of Pune, India.

Pulin started his career as an Executive Design Engineer working on vapor absorption machines in Thermax Ltd for two years immediately following his undergraduate degree. As a graduate student, he interned with Design Geneva, a design studio focused on innovative product development, where he gained valuable experience in designing products for the real world. Pulin has a patent pending for a portable washing machine developed for rural India, as part of his work during graduate school. Later he worked in Ashok Leyland, a leading automobile industry in India, as a product designer in styling department.

Pulin is passionate about designing medical devices to solve unmet healthcare needs of Indian market. At Stanford India Biodesign, he is focused on developing affordable health care solutions for India as well as other developing countries. He enjoys touch of clay, smell of wood, heat of melting iron and clanking sound of metals to give shape to his ideas in the workshop.