# Shivang Dave

> Shivang R. Dave is the co-founder and CEO of PlenOptika, a Cambridge, Massachusetts medical-device company behind QuickSee, a handheld autorefractor that measures eyeglass prescriptions in about 10 seconds using wavefront aberrometry. A bioengineer with a PhD in bioengineering and nanotechnology, Dave co-invented the device during the Madrid-MIT M+Vision fellowship and has grown PlenOptika from a four-fellow research team into an international company whose technology has helped correct vision for over 7 million people across 60+ countries, especially in low-resource settings.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at PlenOptika
- **Organizations:** PlenOptika
- **From:** Sacramento, California, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Undergraduate degree (bioengineering), University of California, Berkeley, PhD, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle, Advanced research fellowship (Madrid-MIT M+Vision Consortium), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-invented QuickSee, a handheld autorefractor that measures refractive error in about 10 seconds using wavefront aberrometry, Grew PlenOptika from a four-fellow research team into an international company with products in global distribution, PlenOptika technology has helped provide vision correction to over 7 million people across 60+ countries

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Helped develop wearable bio-monitoring technology for remote patient monitoring in Oakland
- **2011** — Earned PhD in Bioengineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington and joined the inaugural cohort of Madrid-MIT M+Vision Fellows
- **2014** — Co-founded PlenOptika with fellow M+Vision researchers Nicholas Durr, Daryl Lim and Eduardo Lage
- **2018** — QuickSee handheld autorefractor reaches the market
- **2023** — QuickSee Free wins the SILMO D'Or prize in Material & Equipment in Paris
- **2024** — Named to the Meaningful Business 100 and honored with a University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award

## Achievements

- Co-invented QuickSee, a handheld autorefractor that measures refractive error in about 10 seconds using wavefront aberrometry
- Grew PlenOptika from a four-fellow research team into an international company with products in global distribution
- PlenOptika technology has helped provide vision correction to over 7 million people across 60+ countries
- Named to the 2024 Meaningful Business 100 (MB100)
- 2024 University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award honoree
- QuickSee Free won the 2023 SILMO D'Or prize for Material & Equipment
- PlenOptika recognized with an Eddie Award from the Mass Innovation Network
- Raised early grant funding and completed clinical trials across five countries (US, Spain, India, China)

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Honored as a University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award recipient
- **2024** — Named to the Meaningful Business 100 for combining profit and purpose

## Links

- Website: https://plenoptika.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/srdave
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/plenoptika
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plenoptika/

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