YEAR 2007

Harshet Lunani: After his schooling at Rishi Valley School, Harshet is pursuing a B.A. (Hons) course in Mathematics at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and has decided to pursue a career in Mathematics. To understand how Mathematics is applied in real life situations he did a project at Franklin Templeton Mutual funds, Hyderabad on the financial market after his 2nd year in college. He now plans to join the University of Oxford for an M.Sc. in Mathematical and Computational Finance, and has received an internship offer from Merrill Lynch, London during the summer of 2007. He has been nominated for the Commonwealth Scholarship and is awaiting the final result.

Mr. Sandeep Sinha - Mentor: began his career with Technology Management Leadership program at GE after completing his postgraduate studies from the London School of Economics. He is founding member and managing technology services across Asia, Europe, and the United States. And he has been recognized in the TOP 100 CIO list by the prestigious CIO Magazine. In addition, he has received several recognitions for applying six sigma quality methodology for effective service delivery in IT infrastructure and application areas. Mr.Sinha is a member of the Working Council of CIOs and has been a speaker at various conferences organized by Business Week, KPMG, IBM, EDS and others.

   

Sudeep Tandon: A B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Technology. BHU, Sudeep has a good academic record, having consistently ranked first in class. In he was awarded the JNCASR Summer Research Fellowship, during which he worked at the IISc, Bangalore. At present he is working as Design Engineer with NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, where he got an exposure to the state-of-the-art tools and methodologies, as also to their core values of 'Intellectual honesty' and 'one team'. Aspiring to be a 'technology-entrepreneur'. He will be joining the MS program in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

Mr. Sandeep Sinha - Mentor: began his career with Technology Management Leadership program at GE after completing his postgraduate studies from the London School of Economics. He is founding member and managing technology services across Asia, Europe, and the United States. And he has been recognized in the TOP 100 CIO list by the prestigious CIO Magazine. In addition, he has received several recognitions for applying six sigma quality methodology for effective service delivery in IT infrastructure and application areas. Mr.Sinha is a member of the Working Council of CIOs and has been a speaker at various conferences organized by Business Week, KPMG, IBM, EDS and others.

   

Shreya Malik: Coming from the sheltered environs of Chandigarh, Shreya made a conscious decision to do her undergraduate studies in Mumbai as she wanted to get away from the culture of the 'North' which she did not like. Barely 21, she is in the final year of the BA (Hons) course in Economics and Statistics at the St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai. To complement theoretical knowledge with real world experience, she trained under two asset management companies -- standard Chartered and Principal PNB - during the course of her undergraduate studies. She volunteered as Research Assistant to the Head of the Economics Department of her college, and is the Associate Editor of "Arthnit", the Economics Journal of the collage. She has now secured admission to the M.Sc. course in Financial Economics at the University of Oxford.

Dr.Rajkamal Iyer - Mentor: is currently an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Amsterdam. He has completed his PhD from INSEAD in Finance. Prior to his PhD, he has a MSc in finance and economics from the London School of Economics. His current area or research is on Banking and Development Economics

   

Tushar Parashar: Doing his final year of the B.Tech. program in Industrial Engineering at IIT - Roorkee, Tushar was one of the 3 students selected from his institute for a fully paid summer internship after the third year in the School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas. The exposure he got there in the fields of interest to him, and the desire to do his master's from one of the best schools in engineering, led him to apply to some of the top-ranking universities in the US, the expenses for which he met out of his savings from the stipend received during his US internship. As he proudly states, he "did not take a single penny from parents for all this endeavor". The son of a Government school teacher in Delhi, Tushar plans to take a bank loan to finance his studies for the MS in Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. His specific areas of interest are Operations Research and Supply Chain management. Among his various projects is a study of the logistics system of the Dabbawallas of Mumbai to identify the factors that make them a six sigma enterprise.

Mr Sameer Sharma - Mentor: currently is a Senior Program Manager at Intel Corporation. He is based out of Santa Clara, California. He has done an MS (Computer Engg) from Rutgers University and BE (Electronics) from Punjab University. He can guide folks in the areas of technology in general and Software/Semiconductors in particular.

   

Chandresh Dubey: A disadvantaged socio-economic background and schooling through the vernacular medium have not deterred Chandresh from excelling in academics and securing the 1st rank at the BE in mechanical Engineering examination of the University of Mumbai. For the past two two years he has been working with Larsen & Toubro as Design Engineer, which experience made him realize that he needed to study further .He has secured admission for the MS in Mechanical Engineering for 2yrs in Polytechnic University.

   

Vignesh Sundaresh: A B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering student from IIT Madras, Excelling in academics, he was chosen to conduct research as a 'Fellow' by the Indian Instiitute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Statistical Institute, delhi. He has also contributed papers for conferences and international jouranals. At present he is a part of the technical innovation team representing IIT-Madras in the Vehicle Design summit organized by MIT Boston, which provides him an opportunity to interact with MIT faculty and students. The next step according to him is to pursue a Master's degree couse in the field of Mechanical Engineering. He has secured admission into the MS program in Computation for Design Optimization (CDO) at MIT.

   

Kartik Sivaraman: A Graduate Trainee with Tata Motors since July 2006, Kartik from Bangalore is a BE in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka at Surathkal. Keen on taking up a career as a research scientist in the field of combustion and propulsion engineering, he has secured admission for 2 yrs for the MS leading to Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at the Federal institute of Technology, Zurich.

Freddie Mehta - Mentor: Completed Bachelor's degree in Automobile Engineering (B.E.) from Mumbai University. Went to the UK for Master's degree. Completed MSc in Automotive Product Engineering from Cranfield University. Worked with Ford Motor Company, Europe for 1 year on petrol engine calibration & development related to performance and economy. Currently working with Jaguar Cars Ltd. as a CAE Analyst.

   

Janardhan Kodavasal: A Graduate B.Tech in Mechanical Engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka at Surathkal.Currently pursuing his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan University Ann Arbor for 20 months. He had a campus placement with Tata Motors at Pune, but has decided to go for an MS in the US instead as he wants to work there after the course. Passionate about cars from a young age, his ultimate goal is to set up an automobile company in India and develop clean and efficient cars for the future. He has been a recipient of the KVPY fellowship at school, abd was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) summer research Fellowship during his engineering course, as a part of which he worked in the Department of aerospace Engineering, IIT- Madras.

Freddie Mehta - Mentor: Completed Bachelor's degree in Automobile Engineering (B.E.) from Mumbai University. Went to the UK for Master's degree. Completed MSc in Automotive Product Engineering from Cranfield University. Worked with Ford Motor Company, Europe for 1 year on petrol engine calibration & development related to performance and economy. Currently working with Jaguar Cars Ltd. as a CAE Analyst.

   

Abhishek Chari: An enthusiastic 21 yrs old from Delhi . Abhishek completed his BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science with Distinction, from the University of Delhi followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in molecular and Biomedical Technology from the same industry. His interest in the biological Science, particularly in the significance of symbiotic phenomena in the evolution of life.” Has motivated him to join the 5years Ph.D programme in microbial Biology in the University of Utah.

Dr. Bhisey – Mentor: A PhD in applied Biology, Dr.Bhisey is a former director of Cancer Resource Institute Mumbai and was the project Director of ACTREC. Currently he is consultant Bioinformatics Centre University of Pune and Chairman Internal Review of Healis Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health

   
   
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