IIT Kharagpur alumnus wins Oscar for technical achievement 
IIT Kharagpur alumnus Parag Havaldar has won an Academy Award for scientific and technical achievements this year. He is being honoured for the development of expression-based facial performance-capture technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Havaldar will be presented with an Oscar on February 11 ahead of the main Oscar ceremony to be held on February 26 in the United States.