Mirza Faizan. Mirza Faizan is an Indian-American aerospace scientist who developed the Ground Reality Information Processing System (GRIPS).

Biography
Faizan attended St Karen’s School, Patna, and graduated from Patna University, followed by work in master of computer application at Manipal Institute of Technology, and in embedded systems at the  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

He then worked for Defence Research and Development Organisation, Satyam Computers, Honeywell, Airbus-France, and on aerospace projects in the US.

Faizan came to the United States in 2013 on a EB-1 visa. Faizan is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He currently lives in Texas, US.

Mirza Faizan is the inventor of the Ground Reality Information Processing System (GRIPS), a runway safety system.  GRIPS was nominated for the Jane’s ATC Award 2014 held in Madrid.

Inventions 
Mirza Faizan developed Ground Reality Information Processing System (GRIPS). This system prevents runway incursion and identifies foreign objects and debris on runways in real-time at the time of airplane take-off or landing.

NASA scientists evaluated GRIPS and further recommended it to National Air Traffic Services in the UK. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the national aviation authority of the United States of America, also shortlisted GRIPS among the technologies that prevent runway incursions.

GRIPS was nominated for the Jane’s ATC Award 2014 held in Madrid.

DiscoverSTEM 
Mirza Faizan is the founder of DiscoverSTEM program. He started the program in 2016. Mirza Faizan resigned as head of engineering services (USA & Canada) in 2020 at Capgemini to focus full-time on developing the DiscoverSTEM program. 

In the DiscoverSTEM program, students are encouraged to follow a five-step program of think, analyze, ideate, create and innovate patentable solutions to real-world problems. DiscoverSTEM program is designed to create the next generation of thinkers, innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs. There are two major parts of the course – foundation and implementation.

DiscoverSTEM students have won global innovation competitions. DiscoverSTEM has sent students to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Duke University with scholarships totalling $3.5 million. It has produced almost 200 young inventors ages 10 to 18.

Patents

Patents Granted in the United States
 : Apparatus and method to clean garbage from water bodies
 : Automated Aircraft Tray Table Disinfecting System Using Ultra-Violet light
 : Relay based system to launch a projectile
 : Automated system for cleaning and recovering spilled oil in the ocean using hair felt rollers
 : Wind powered system to lift water using multiple tanks
 : Drug abuse prevention device and a method thereof
 : System to generate an alert to wake a driver of a vehicle and a method thereof
 : Package delivery box
 : Biodegradable bottle cap using pestalotiopsis microsporia to biodegrade waste plastic bottle
 : Fluid flow control unit
 : Wearable device for managing alcohol-driven violence
 : System and Method for Mental State Determination
 : Handheld device to detect lead compounds and impurities in water
 : A high-speed pressure based propulsion system for transporting resources
 : Automatic sunvisor assembly
 : An apparatus for sanitising products
 : Deep sea pressure based projectile launching system
 : Smart shower head
 : A system for refilling of used markers
 : Bio-Degradable Container
 : Iot based management system and a method for assisting users around a swimming pool
 : Apparatus to enable differently abled users to communicate and a method thereof
 : Method and system for preventing injury by friendly fire

Patents Granted in South Africa
 South Africa Patent | 202209145B: Water desalination system
 South Africa Patent | 202209147B: Method and apparatus for enabling communication of differently abled users
 South Africa Patent | 202209146B: Brick for power generation
 South Africa Patent | 202209144B: Vehicle collision avoidance system
 South Africa Patent | ZA202209154B: Stress management system
 South Africa Patent | 202210453B: Preventing finger of a user from pinch in a door gap
 South Africa Patent | 202303467B: Method and system for providing a smart ladder to a user
 South Africa Patent | 202303468B: A system for monitoring water consumption of users and a method thereof
 South Africa Patent | 202303469B: A system and a method for color-blind person to distinguish colors in a surrounding
 South Africa Patent | 202303470B: A biodegradable cover for a portable electronic device
 South Africa Patent | 202303472B: An IOT-Based management system and a method for assisting users around a swimming pool
 South Africa Patent | 202303517B: Method and system for preventing injury by friendly fire
 South Africa Patent | 202303518B: Method and system for providing a smart whiteboard cleaner
 South Africa Patent | 202303519B: A perfume-dispersing device
 South Africa Patent | 202303520B: A system for displaying selected clothes on a human body

Patents pending
 : A system to prevent injury from stair fall
 : Safety system for preventing mass shootings by Smart guns
 : Aircraft tracking system and method
 : Self sanitizing door handle with protective cover
 : Wearable device to identify medical emergencies and notify
 : System and method for contactless provisioning of elevator service
 : Self-sanitizing Poles
 : Medical surgery recording, processing and reporting system
 : The automatic system to monitor health condition of an infant
 : Smart rescue system

Awards and honors 
Mirza Faizan is a recipient of George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation.

References

Scientists from Patna
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Patna University alumni
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)