Dr. SP Kothari (’74) - Chairman & Trustee
Location : Boston, MA, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org 
S.P. Kothari serves as Global Head of Equity Research and is responsible for research supporting Barclays Global Investors' active equity strategies. Prior to joining BGI, S.P. was Deputy Dean and Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he was the Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 2005-06, he was Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Dr. Kothari received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is an editor of the Journal of Accounting & Economics (1997-present) , a world-renowned academic research journal in accounting. His research focuses on financial reporting and valuation, asset allocation, explaining the diversity in international accounting practices, use of employee stock options for compensating executives and accounting for stock options, evaluating investment performance, and corporate uses of derivatives for hedging and speculation. He served on the Board of Directors of Vicarious Visions (www.vvisions.com) from 1998-2004, and he was a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates International (www.crai.com), a business-economics and litigation support consulting firm, for eight years. He has consulted with many large corporations, including leading US and international banks, Australian television broadcast corporations, US steel companies, E&Y, KPMG, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and the U.S. Department of Justice. | Raju Reddy (’76) - Chairman-Elect &Trustee
Location : Fremont, CA, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Raju is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sierra Atlantic. He completed his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani and followed it up with a M.S.in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He worked at Intel for over 10 years in "software development, marketing and general management" before moving on to create "one of the top 75 most Admired companies in Silicon Valley, Top 25 great places to work in India and Top 10 best employers in South China" in Sierra Atlantic. Among other things, Raju serves as a member of the BITS Pilani Board of Directors, a Charter member of TiE Silicon Valley, Board of Trustees for Puente, a Wharton School non-profit program and more recently the India Community Center, Milpitas | Viggy Mokkarala (’76) - Trustee
Location : Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Viggy is currently the EVP (Client Implementations) at Envestnet Advisory Corp. He completed hi B.E. in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani (76F06385) between 1976 and 1980. He followed it up with a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and continued to work with Applied Materials, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett-Packard. He co-founded Oberon Financial Technology, a pioneer in asset management software, which he grew from $10 million to $1.6 billion by 2004. | Brij Bhushan (’65) - Trustee
Location : Great Falls, VA, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Brij is currently retired from Reston Consulting Group, which he founded in 1986. RCG provides Systems Integration services in the field of telecommunications to the US Federal Government. Brij graduated from BITS Pilani in 1965 and subsequently taught there from 1966 to 1969 and had a return engagement during Fall of 2006. Brij holds a Masters from Auburn University (1970) and has completed course work towards Doctor of Engg in EE at Concordia University, Montreal Canada. Brij and his wife Champa (also a BITS alumn) live in the suburbs of Washington DC and have three grown up children Anju, Anita and Anup. | Dr. AP Mathur (’70) - Trustee
Location : West Lafayette, IN, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Aditya is the Computer Science Department Head at Purdue University. Dr. Mathur holds a PhD in Computer Science, MS and BS in Electrical Engineering all from BITS Pilani. | Punita Pandey (’84) - Trustee
Location : San Jose, CA, USA/New Delhi, India
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Punita is the founder and CEO of netCustomer, Inc. netCustomer provides advanced enterprise applications support leveraging a 24x7 global delivery model. Punita holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Punita splits time between Noida, India and San Jose, California. | Chandra Bhople (’74) - Trustee
Location : Santa Clara, CA, USA/Nagpur, India
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Chandra is co-founder and director of operations at OCTAVE Business School (www.octavesbm.in) which is founded by 8 BITSians. In 2008, he co-founded Nuva College of Engineering & Technology (www.nuvaedu.com). Chandra has 29+ years of global experience in entrepreneurship, management consulting, general management, marketing and sales in USA, India, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Middle East. He is also an adjunct management faculty at BITS Pilani, senior advisor for POA Educational Foundation (www.poafoundation.org) and executive advisor at Karma Candy Inc. in Canada. He holds MBA and B E in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani. | Niranjan Bose (’92) - Trustee
Location : Seattle, WA, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Niranjan works as a Business Analyst with the Infectious Diseases team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. Prior to joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he was with SDG Life Sciences, a unit of IMS Health, where he was a Senior Consultant and assisted clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with strategy development, valuations, research validation and forecasting. Niranjan holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Dartmouth College and an MS in biological sciences and BS in pharmaceutical sciences from BITS, Pilani. His doctoral thesis was on cholera pathogenesis, with a focus on developing the assembly mechanism for an attachment factor, which is currently being targeted as a vaccine target. He also received the Business Bridge Diploma from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. | Deepak Sharma (’91) - Trustee
Location : San Jose, CA, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Deepak is a Managing Consultant in the Strategy & Change Practice of IBM Global Services. He has over ten years of industry & consulting experience with focus on High Tech marketing. He has deep expertise in product marketing, business model innovation, pricing, product management, post merger integration, business process transformation, and marketing transformation. He has published several thought leadership articles on high tech product management, marketing & strategy methodologies. He performs pro-bono consulting work in the area of brand strategy for non-profit organizations in the bay area. In his spare time he enjoys "lacha" sessions, Hollywood & Bollywood movies, spending time with his wife and 2 year old daughter. | Krishna Hegde (’96) - Trustee
Location : Singapore
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Krishna works in the credit strategy team at Barclays Capital, New York. Before joining Barclays, Krishna handled a similar role at Lehman Brothers. He earned his MBA (with distinction) from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2006 and was an Edward Tuck scholar. From BITS, he joined Hindustan Unilever as a Business Leadership Trainee and subsequently worked as an IT manager handling business intelligence systems for sales and supply chain. At Pilani, he did his BE (Hons) in Computer Science and his ID number was 96A7PS034. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Priya. Krishna co-founded BITS2Bschool and coordinated the public-relations efforts within India for BITSConnect. | Dr. Ashok Agarwal (’61) - Trustee, BITSAA India Trust
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : bitsaa-india-trust[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Dr. Ashok Agarwal is a Gold medalist in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani and did his Masters and Doctoral Programme from University of Minnesota. He started his career with Bell Telephone Laboratories followed by Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta as a Professor of MIS during 1969 to 1986.,visiting professor at Northeastern University ,Boston USA and visiting research scholar and Ford Fellow at Sloan School , MIT USA and University of Minnesota. As an entrepreneur, from 1986 onwards Dr. Agarwal was involved in setting up various IT organizations in India in software products , software services and training , IT publications and IT infrastructure Two of the companies were listed on Stock Exchange in India and one in USA . Currently involved with several academic institutions and companies on their Board. Chairman of Engineers without Borders India , a non profit Society committed to finding engineering solutions for betterment of the society | Sanjay Khendry (’82) - Trustee, BITSAA India Trust
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : bitsaa-india-trust[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sanjay Khendry (1982-87, Physics-EEE) is secretary of BITSAA Hyderabad. Sanjay has 23 years of experience in the IT industry in International and India sales, marketing, account & partner management, software development, public relations and general management roles, working with clients globally. Currently, as Vice-President with Sierra Atlantic, he is handling the Indian market for the company. Sierra Atlantic is Silicon Valley headquartered IT Services Company specialized in providing Enterprise Application and Outsourced Product Development services. Prior to Sierra Atlantic, Sanjay handled sales and product management at Wings Infonet Limited (1992-94). Earlier (1987-92) he was with National Information Technologies Limited - A joint venture of Press Trust of India and MP State Electronics Development Corporation in software development, system integration and technology roles. An avid amateur photographer and a Rotarian, Sanjay is passionate about creating and enhancing options in basic school education for the under-privileged. | Sarath Kolla (’93) - Trustee
Location : Middletown, CT, USA
Email : bitsaa-board[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sarath is an independent Software Consultant providing technology services to Insurance and Finance companies. He served as a Product Development Architect at Netkey (Kiosk and Digital Signage Solutions provider), SupplyInsight (RFID Solutions provider) and Metaserver (Business Process Workflow Middleware Provider). His expertise includes providing Vision and outlining Technology Roadmap for complex products and applications. He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 1998 with a B.E. in Computer Science and M.Sc in Biological Sciences. Sarath holds a Masters degree in Computer Science at University of Denver, Colorado, USA in 2000. He lives in CT, USA with his wife (Meghna) and son (Yug Sai). His passions include playing VolleyBall, Cricket, Tennis and Table Tennis | Aalap Tripathy (’04) - Chief Executive Officer & Trustee
Location : College Station, TX, USA
Email : aalap[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Aalap is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Embedded Systems Co-design Group at Texas A&M University, College Station. He graduated from BITS Pilani Goa Campus in 2008 with a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE). At BITS, Aalap has held a host of leadership positions - co-founded and led the Center for Software Development as Student Cordinator, EEE Student's Association as President, Team BITSAA (Executive Committee for Goa Campus) as Founder Secretary and BITS Embryo as the first Campus Manager. He was also the Co-Editor for "Sizzling Sands - 2007", the annual Goa Campus magazine and an Advisor to the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL). He has also been a founding member of "Abhigyaan" - the on-campus literacy program, NSS which conducted the largest Blood Donation Drive in Goa (2005), and BITS 360 (http://www.bits360.com). At BITSAA International, Aalap has worked as a Volunteer, Manager and Director of BITSAA's Technology Team. | Arun Aravind (’97) - Chief Operations Officer & Trustee
Location : Richmond, VA, USA
Email : arunaravind[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arun is an Energy Market Analyst at Dominion Resources. He currently supports Dominions lobbying efforts with analysis to determine the financial impact of climate change legistlation on electric utilities, his past included working in commodities trading desks, and working with a stock broker in India. In BITS, he was the Secretary of Dance Club, co-ord for Dance Workshop. Arun graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2001 with a M.Sc(Tech) in General Studies. He obtained an MS in Quantitative Financial Economics from Oklahoma State University. Arun is based out of Richmond, VA with his wife (Deepa Devadas, a BITS Dubai ('01) alum). In his spare time, you can find him trekking/biking along the James river in Richmond. | Kaushik Subramanian (’01) - Chief Finance Officer & Trustee
Location : San Jose, CA, USA
Email : kaushik[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Kaushik is currently working at Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, California as Product Applications Engineer, focusing on new product definition, applications development and technical marketing. He graduated from BITS Pilani in 2006 with Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Physics. While at BITS, he was a member of the Corroboration & Review Committee and actively involved in the activities of the Students' Union. He was among the first few students to participate in the Practice School Program in the Silicon Valley and has been working for the BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter (BITSAA SVC) ever since. Currently, he is also the CTO of BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter. | Rajesh Chelapurath (’88) - Chief Investment Officer & Trustee
Location : Houston, TX, USA
Email : rc[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rajesh is President & Managing Member at Ceera Investments, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm that manages investment portfolios for individuals, trusts, pensions, and corporations. Prior to founding Ceera Investments, LLC in 2005, Rajesh began his career in investment management and research when he joined the Burnham Financial Group's Houston office in 1998. At Burnham, as Investment Analyst, and later as Associate Managing Director, Rajesh helped manage assets for high net worth clients. Rajesh has also held several marketing positions at the Medical Equipment Division of Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Mumbai, India. Rajesh currently serves as a Trustee, BITSAA Intl, and the Chief Investment Officer of BITSAA Investment Committee that oversees the investment fund of BITSAA. At BITS, he was actively involved in Oasis'91 (as STUCCAN, Art n Dee), Oasis'92 (as Ex-Officio STUCCAN), and in Apogee. He is a Charter Member of TiE Houston and a Member of the Board of The Marthannie Music Conservatory College Preparatory School, Houston. He is also a member of the Houston Society of Financial Analysts, the CFA Institute, the World Affairs Council (Houston), and the Houston Entrepreneurs Forum. Rajesh graduated from BITS, Pilani in 1993 with a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics and an M.Sc. (Hons) in Physics. In 1998, he obtained an MBA (Finance) from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, New Orleans. Rajesh is based out of Houston with his wife (Deepa Poduval, a BITS ('94) alum) and daughter, Aashna. | Uzma Hussain (’03) - Chief Marketing Officer
Location : Stanford, CA, USA
Email : uzma[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Uzma (aka Uzi) is a Software Developer at D.E.Shaw & Co. and has experience in developing investment management solutions. She graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2007 with a B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science. She is an Associate Editor of Sandpaper 2.0. Uzma is passionate about technology and entrepreneurship and has recently started delving into finance especially hedge funds and asset management. At BITS, Uzma was involved in a host of activities. She was the Vice President at the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and led the Networks domain of CEL .She co-founded the IBM-BITS Linux Club. She was also a member of the Election Commission, English Drama Club and the Swimming Club and a Group Leader at the Department of Photography. Uzma likes dabbling in quizzing and music in her spare time. | Vivek Iyer (’97) - Chief Technology Officer
Location : San Diego, CA, USA
Email : vivek[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vivek Iyer is a Senior Systems Engineer at MediaFLO USA in San Diego and enjoys working on streaming multimedia over wireless networks. He studied Electronics and Instrumentation at BITS Pilani, after which he came to Arizona State University to pursue his Masters in Electrical Engineering. During his four years in Pilani, Vivek played an active role in the Department of Controlz, the Corroboration and Review Committee (CRC) and the Academic Registration and Counseling (ARC) Division. Vivek has been managing BITSAA Sandpaper 2.0 website as its webmaster for the past few years. He is also a member of the core technology team for the BITSAA website. In his spare time, Vivek enjoys exploring new gadgets, multimedia technologies and biking. | Raghu Raman (’04) - Chief Human Resource Officer
Location : Ahmedabad, India
Email : raghuraman[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Raghu (aka Prof) is currently working with the Godrej group as a Senior Executive , handling engineering services in the group’s Oleo chemicals business. He graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Instrumentation from BITS Pilani, Goa campus. At BITS, he co founded the EIE assoc and Tamizh Sangam.He was also a member of the BITSAA Executive Committee ’07. Raghu loves learning new languages and getting to know people. He also enjoys trekking, watching movies and reading about Indian culture. | Ramaswamy Nagarajan (’61) - Chairman, Alumni Membership Board
Location : Sydney, Australia
Email : rnagarajan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Nagi is currently pursuing PhD in Sydney University on Modeling Community Perceptions of Large Capital Projects Using Soft Computing Techniques. He has been involved in a professional capacity in Information Technology, Market Research, Operations Research and Consulting work in Europe, India and Australia for over 35 years. He has managed diverse projects and studies, authored many reports and published a few papers. He did his BE Telecom in BITS Pilani (1961-66), Diploma in Computer Techniques in PII Eindhoven Netherlands (1966-68) and MSc (Management Studies) in Imperial College Business School London (1970-71).Back in BITS, he was the Secretary of Students Union (1963-64) and Founder Editor of BITS BEAT, Campus Newsletter (1964-65). He was also the Co-founder/Advisor of Bitsunami and Co-ordinator of Practice School in Bitsunami (2005-07).He is interested in sustainable development and renewable energy. | Shashikant Khandelwal (’97) - Founder & President, BITSEmbryo
Location : San Jose, CA, USA
Email : fd97093[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shashikant(Khandoo) co-founded BITSEmbryo along with his 1997 batch BITSian classmates, and led the team from idea inception to building an Embryo Club on campus to run this project. In 2 years, Embryo has conducted 80 lectures via video-conferencing, some of them simultaneously across Pilani, Goa and Dubai campuses with an attendance of over 500 students. Shashikant is also a Founding Member and Chief Architect at TheFind Inc, a startup in shopping search with more than 10 million visitors per month. At TheFind, Shashikant has been involved in venture funding, product innovation (5 patents pending), and building a scalable search engine. Shashikant has been involved in BITSAA-SVC since 2003 in various roles. He is from the 1997 BE(Hons) CS batch at BITS and 2004 MSCS batch at Stanford. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife Shilpa, also a BITSian and a member of Embryo founding team. | Kris Inapurapu (’99) - Senior Advisor, Fundraising
Location : New Jersey, USA
Email : krisi[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Mr. Inapurapu has been a management and technology consultant for the Fortune 500 customers of Open Text Corporation and currently working as Director of Value Engineering Group. For the past 5 years he has been primarily involved in designing and implementing Enterprise Content Management solutions for SAP Business Platforms. His core expertise is in the areas of Business Process Optimization and Value Engineering.Outside work he offers pro-bono consulting to small business consultants in Greater Philadelphia region. Mr. Inapurapu is also a Trustee at LeadCap - a non-profit organization focused on promoting leadership amongst the youth in India. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, hiking and running | Kartik Bandhuvula (’02) - Vice President, Fundraising
Location : Waterloo, Canada
Email : kartik[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Kartik aka Dolby is a 2002 batch BITSian, currently works as a Design Engineer at ARM, Inc in Silicon Valley. Kartik has been associated with BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter for nearly two years. He has been actively involved in organizing various BITSAA events in the valley. At BITS, he was a member of the EEE Association and Backstage. Kartik holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (2008) and a B.E.(Hons) Electrical and Electronics degree from BITS Pilani. | Sutirtha Roy (’05) - Vice President, BITS.aid
Location : N/A
Email : sutirthasroy[at]bitsaa[dot]org
After graduating from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) - Goa Campus (2005-2009, Information Systems), Sutirtha is partnered with PondyCan in Pondicherry. He will be assisting the creation of sustainable infrastructure solutions. As a student, Sutirtha was an active volunteer with NGOs enabling self-empowerment. Sutirtha also cherishes his 2008 summer internship at the Vikram Sarabhai Science Center making young people enthusiastic about science. Most recently, he has managed his international alumni association\'s social front, BITS.aid, partnering with NGOs on development issues concerning India. Sutirtha believes that true change must begin at the grassroots level and he wants to fully live this message. He is as much in awe by the economics of Jeffery Sachs as by the magical riffs of Pink Floyd. | Stueti Gupta (’00) - Vice President, BITSEmbryo
Location : Pune, India
Email : stueti[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Stueti is currently working in Asia Technology Innovation Center at John Deere India Pvt Ltd. She entered BITS in 2000 with MSc Phy and graduated with a dual in Mechanical Engineering. She was closely associated with BITS Physics Society since first year and held leadership positions as secretary of BITS Astronomy Club and BITS Physics society. She returned to BITS to do a Master’s in Design Engineering. She taught in BITS for almost three year as a TA and then later Assistant Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Department. She also served as PS I faculty for two summers. It was during her master’s at BITS, Project Embryo was initiated and she coordinated the project from on-campus. Almost seventy lectures were successfully delivered under her leadership. After seven years on-campus she went to Cornell University for a year and a half for further research in mechanical design | Vinodh Nandakumar (’01) - Vice President, Communications
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : vinodh[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vinodh aka Rexy works as a Product manager with an early stage startup in Bangalore and focuses on Product and market strategy in the online consumer internet space. Vinodh graduated out of BITS Pilani in 2006 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, he worked for an IT consulting firm in Bangalore as a Program Manager and then decided to stir things up in life and join a startup. At BITS, he was a part of the Department of Controlz. Vinodh has been involved with BITSAA previously in the BITS branding initiatives and BITS.Aid. He is passionate about giving back to the society and works with NGOs in the field of Microfinance and Primary Education. He is also an avid blogger and Social Media enthusiast. | Vikrant Bhaskarwar (’01) - Director, Finance
Location : New York, NY, USA
Email : vikrant_bits[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vikrant is currently working as a Derivatives Pricing Analyst with Financial Services company Markit Group and is based out of New York City. He graduated from BITS with Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering in Dec, 2004. He worked in India for 2.5 years in the field of Investment Research after which he moved to US. He has a Masters in Quantitative Finance from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.While at BITS, Vikrant was the Secretary of Computer Science Association and a member of the Senate. In his spare time, Vikrant enjoys reading, traveling, hiking, running and has recently become an arts aficionado | Meenakshi Chatterjee (’00) - Chief Editor, Sandpaper 2.0
Location : Fremont, CA, USA
Email : mchatterjee[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Meenakshi is a skilled member of the Hardware Design Engineering group at 3PAR Inc, California. She has been a part of system design, bringup and debug for the past two and half years now. Prior to 3PAR, she had been working with Nvidia in the Platforms team. Electronics had always been her passion. Getting a degree in Physics and EEE from BITS, Pilani was the first step in following her passion. A Master's in UCLA followed next. While on campus, Meenakshi had been a prolific writer. The bug of short stories had bit her in her second year and since then it has been incurable. She had won prizes for her stories in BITS from Languages group and then at Los Angeles in Henry Krunitz Creative Writing competition. English Press Club, Poetry Club, Moruchhaya (Bengali Association), Physics Assoc, EEE Assoc were where Meenakshi remained a faithful member and a regular contributor. She had been contributing short stories to Sandpaper since 2005 and came on the editorial team in 2007. Currently she is leading the effort for the upcoming Winter issue. | Sukanya Varadharajan (’02) - Director, Fundraising
Location : St. Paul, MN, USA
Email : sukanya.sv[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Better known as SVS, I’m an instruite from the 2002 batch. After graduating in 2006, I joined Infosys Technologies and worked for a year during which I realized software is not my cup of tea. So now, I’m doing my masters in bioengineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. Back in BITS, I was part of backstage and an active member of EDC. I headed the crew as prod man for a year. I also worked on the editorial team for the instrumentation magazine. I’m currently involved in organizing cultural events for the Fine Arts Society of India at UTA. I am a fund raiser for "Helping Hands”, an organization for the underprivileged based in Chennai. I am interested in community services and charity. In my free time, I blog and I’m a hardcore shopaholic. I would really love to run a marathon someday. | Vishrut Shukla (’05) - Director, Technology
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : vishrut[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vishrut has been active with BITSAA at BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus right from establishment to shaping the way it works in campus today. He has served the Association as the Founder Jt. Secretary and later took over as the highest student designatory in the form of the Secretary of BITSAA Executive Committee (Goa Campus). One of the initiators of the BITS Embryo project at the Goa Campus back in his second year, he has been awarded by the Director, (Late) Prof. T. C. Goel for coordinating the activites of the Centre for Software Development till his 7th semester. He loves designing and had been administering the Goa Campus website and student servers right from his first year onwards. Vishrut serves on the teams of 'Let's Promote BITS Pilani' and '100% Placements' initiatives apart from primarily the Technology team and often designs attractive posters for various BITSAA projects for print and cyber usage. Vishrut, who has finished his final semester PS-2 in Yahoo! Labs - Bangalore and is working at Cisco Systems, Bangalore as a Software Engineer now shares a dream alike everyone here in making BITS, Pilani the most sought-after institute in the world! | Satish Polisetti (’02) - Director, Newsletter
Location : Berkeley, CA, USA
Email : satp[at]bitsaa[dot]org
I am Satish Polisetti (aka sat~p - hmm, people seldom call me this, but etiquette dictates everyone to have a BITSian name), from the ebullient batch of 2002. I graduated with a Dual Degree in Electrical & Electronics and Mechanical Engineering. I completed my semester long internships in Qualcomm-Bangalore, Cypress - San Jose, and currently employed with Infineon Technologies as an Engineer, in the Silicon Plateau of India. At Pilani, my leadership positions include Joint Coordinator for Mechanical Association, Executive Committee Member of Recreational Activity Forum and Member, Department of Sponsorship & Marketing in the initial years. I voluntarily presented few BITS branding lectures to aspirants at my +2 college. But the true ardor of "Giving back to BITS” nurtured during my term as Joint Editor for BITSAA Annual Year Book, Batch 2002, when I realized publishing and writing were channels to reach the largest alumni community with prospective objectives of BITSAA. As Associate Editor, Sandpaper 2.0, am associated with several activities such as producing articles, designing cover pages, drafting cover stories, editing stuff, and I love doing them. In addition, am also handling bunch of BITSAA Newsletter tasks. | Himanshu Rautela (’05) - Director, Campus Relations
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : himanshu[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Himanshu graduated from BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus in 2009 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and is currently working as an Associate Analyst in the Analytics division of HSBC. Back at BITS, he had been a part of the BITSAA Executive Committee since its inception at the Goa Campus and also served as its highest student designatory as the Secretary. He was a part of the Placement Cell and served as the Placement Coordinator in his final year when he also coordinated the '100% Placements' initiative for BITSAA International. Apart from this, he was also involved in the BITSEmbryo Project when it was launched at the Goa Campus and was also a part of the Organizing Committee of SPREE in 2009 as an Advisor. | Ashwin Gowda (’02) - Director, Fundraising
Location : Gurgaon, India
Email : ashwin[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ashwin currently works with a start-up consulting firm in Bangalore. Prior to joining it he worked as an intern in the Business Development division at Agilent Technologies and later worked for a year with Kinapse on business transformation consulting projects in the Life Sciences domain. He completed his Master of Management Studies and B.E.(Hons.) Chemical Engineering from BITS, Pilani in 2007. At BITS he engaged himself with English Press Club, Management and Philately associations. In addition he served as Vice President of Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, led the Sales and Marketing Support team and was the Marketing coordinator for Conquest 2006. At leisure he spends time with underprivileged kids as part of the Teach India initiative and is a volunteer for a few other organizations. His passions are traveling, food, cooking and movies. | Dolly Fernando (’99) - Director, Alumni Membership
Location : Concord, CA, USA
Email : dolly_fernando[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Dolly Fernando is a Technology Lead with Infosys Technologies Ltd. She graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering. While at BITS, she was actively involved in the Department of Controlz. In her free time she enjoys travelling and reading. | Deepak Malani (’03) - Director, Lets Promote BITS Pilani & Career Center
Location : Lucknow, India
Email : deepakmalani[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Deepak is a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Bangalore. He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2007 with a B.E. (Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation. He is the project manager for BITSAA initiative - "Lets Promote BITS-Pilani" . Deepak is very passionate about this initiative and wants to make BITS very popular among the students. At BITS, Deepak was involved in a host of activities. He was mess secretary, joint-coordinator of Instrumentation Forum, member of BITSAA Yearbook editorial team and Jhankar club. He also counseled students for BITS-Pilani admissions. | Harsh Jegadeesan (’98) - Director, BITSAA CEL
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : harsh[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Harsh currently works as a Senior Product Manager with SAP. Harsh holds a PhD in computer science and follows his passion for teaching as an adjunct faculty with BITS Pilani, teaching a graduate course in software engineering. Harsh was the founding president of CEL while in campus and was instrumental in creating "Conquest", now a global business plan competition. Harsh lives in Bangalore with his wife Gayatri, also a BITSian.He loves trekking and travelling and specially visiting UNESCO world heritage sites. | Sairam Sankaran (’04) - Director, BITSAA Scholarships
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : sairam[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sairam is an Engineer at General Electric Co. based out of the John F. Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore where he specializes in the field of aeromechanics and probabilistics. He holds a B.E. (Hons.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS-Pilani. He is an active member of GE Volunteers through which he helps teaching visually impaired students Maths and Science. He enjoys reading books and listening to music in his leisure time. | Atish Kathpal (’06) - Director, BITSEmbryo
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : atish[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Atish has been actively involved with all BITSAA and BITS Embryo activities at BITS-Pilani Goa campus. Selected as an associate member of the first official team of Project Embryo, in 2007, he has been ingeniously involved in establishing the project and shaping the way it works today, at Goa campus. Currently he is the Coordinator of Team Embryo and also a member of the BITSAA Executive Committee, Goa. Apart from handling on-campus BITSAA activities, Atish spends his time working on projects of his interest. In his free time he likes to listen to music and chat with friends. He really loves traveling and has been to France and Thailand apart from having traveled through India. Graduating in 2011, he feels that BITSAA and BITS administration, hand in hand,will make BITS-Pilani the best university in the field of education and research, world over! | Vignesh Venkataraman (’00) - Director, BITS2Marathon
Location : Houston, TX, USA
Email : technovigno[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vigneshwaran is a Consultant at the Nielsen Company, based in Oxford and has more than 6 years experience in market research and consulting. He has consulted with some of the leading Auto suppliers and Vehicle manufacturers in Europe on growth strategy formulation, market entry, product strategy and competitive benchmarking. Vignesh took up running when he was working in Chennai and was a part of the Chennai Runners club. He has participated in 2 half marathons and 3 full marathons and co-founded the BITS2Marathon group along with his BITSian running pals KK and Mahesh. Vignesh completed his Master of Management Studies at BITS in 2004. He is also an avid dancer, passionate traveller and training for long distance cycling. | Kalyan Krishnamani (’97) - Director, Strategic Communications and Branding
Location : Paris, France
Email : kalyan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Kalyan is a post-doctoral researcher in Computer Science at INRIA, Paris and a passionate entrepreneur since founding a startup for promoting artists in 2009. At his startup, he is responsible for the continuous development and implementation of overall strategies, ensuring flexibility in an increasingly dynamic market place. At his research place, he works on software verification, trying to ensure reliability of C-programs that fly passenger and military aircrafts. Besides his academic qualifications and research experience, he has extensive leadership experience in community service and civic infrastructure. He is an engineer and a physicist by education; since earning a PhD in Computer Science, he is a research scientist by profession, and an entrepreneur by passion. His other interests include technologies for health-care and energy, coffee, running, photography, current affairs and celebrity gossip | Suresh Sajja (’03) - Director, Technology
Location : N/A
Email : sureshsajja[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Suresh, bitsians call him as SUBA, graduated in 2007 with M.Sc (Tech) Information Systems from BITS-Pilani. He did an Internship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA. He spent most of his time in Pilani with C6 Assoc and was the president of IS Assoc during 2005-2006. He enjoys working on cutting edge technologies. Presently he is working for Fiorano Software Tech. P Ltd, Bangalore. He looks forward to travel and shop. Other areas of interests include study of human psychology. He wishes to be at his best whereever he is. | Shwetha Kailash (’04) - Director, Communications
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : shwetha[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shwetha graduated in 2008 with a degree in M.Sc.Tech Information Systems from BITS Pilani, Goa campus. She is at present working as a Software Engineer in SAP , Bangalore. At BITS she was the co-ordinator of the drama club, was a part of Abhigyan the literacy mission, was in the editorial board of Sizzling sands in the first year. She was also an active member of the Tamil Sangam and Kernel , the Information Systems Association on campus. She enjoys cooking, reading, listening to music, sings a bit and is passionate about giving it back to BITS. | Srinivasan Nagarajan (’96) - Manager, BITS2BSCHOOL
Location : N/A
Email : srini[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Srini is working as a consultant for ThoughtWorks, a global IT consulting firm. He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He also holds a masters degree in finance from Paul Sanders Business School, Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to ThoughtWorks, Srini was working with SAP Labs in Bangalore and KPMG in their Los Angeles & Phoenix offices. At present, Srini splits his time between Beijing and Hong Kong serving his firm’s investment banking client in their CRM program. Apart from struggling with Mandarin in mainland China, Srini enjoys traveling in Asia, reading about Mumbai, and watching foreign language films. | Abhinav Khushraj (’95) - Manager, BITSAA CEL
Location : Boston, MA, USA
Email : akhushraj[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Abhinav is a strategy and business development manager at Nokia. He has worked at General Catalyst Partners conducting due diligence of Internet startups. Previously he has worked at Booz & Co. doing strategy consulting. He actively pursues business ideas and advises wireless and Internet startups. He is involved with BITSAA CEL initiatives and has been a BITS Embryo speaker. While doing his MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management, he led the MIT VC Conference and introduced the MIT Entrepreneurship Showcase drawing entrepreneurs from across the world. Previously, he worked at Citrix Systems leading product development for a new business line. He holds an MS in Computer Science and graduated from BITS, Pilani in 1999 with an MSc Tech in Information Systems. | Bala Vishwanath (’86) - Manager, BITSAA LinkedIn Group
Location : N/A
Email : balavishwanath[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Bala Vishwanath is President & COO at Physware, Inc. Mr. Vishwanath came to Physware after over 14 years of experience in high-technology EDA companies ranging from start-ups such as Epic Design Technology to public corporations such as Synopsys. He was a co-founder as well as President of Smarte Solutions, a company in the software licensing space with enterprise customers that included Intel, Microsoft and Sony. At Synopsys, he managed the worldwide technical sales team supporting Intel. He has an MS EE from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, BS EE from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and engineering certificate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. | Sindhu Anand (’03) - Manager, Fundraising
Location : N/A
Email : sindhu.anand[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sindhu Anand graduated from BITS Pilani in 2008 with M.Sc (Hons) Biological Sciences and B.E. (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She is currently at Arizona State Univeristy, USA doing her PhD in Bioengineering. Specializing in Neural Engineering, she is developing MEMS systems for neural implants. At BITS, she was part of Department of Controlz, the English Drama Club, SPIC MACAY, and was the Sandpaper 2.0 Pilani, team lead as well. Her most serious and probably the most challenging role was with the Constitution Review and Ammendment Committee (CRAC) in overhauling the administration of the messes. She was one of the co-founders of Vita Beans Neural Solutions Pvt. Ltd., one of the first undergraduate start-ups from BITS Pilani. Along with Amruth and Nakul from the Vita team she has won internationally renowned business plan contests such as Conquest and Eureka (IIT Mumbai). Her keen interest in entrepreneurship has made her an active student member of TiE, Arizona. | Anviti Shastri (’99) - Manager, Technology
Location : San Diego, CA, USA
Email : anviti[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Anviti Shastri currently works as an Engineering Manager at MediKeeper Inc. in San Diego, California. As a student of the '99 batch of BITS, she was deeply involved in the Department of Controlz, and also worked in the production team of the English Drama Club. A nature lover, she loves plants and enjoys traveling, hiking, swimming, movies and gardening. | Akash Raman (’04) - Manager, BITS2MSPHD and Who's Who Lists
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : araman[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Akash is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Sciences at the Harvard University. He graduated from BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus in 2008 with a Bachelor's in Electronics and Instrumentation. Apart from BITS, he has research experiences at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Raman Research Institute (RRI) and Infineon Technologies, Singapore. While at BITS, he was the founder Co-President of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) where he led a team of 40 students to spread Technopreneurship on campus. His interests include Amateur Astronomy, reading and blogging. Akash is also passionate about teaching and aspires to be an academician. Currently, he is on the board of moderators for BITS2MSPhD and BITS360.com. | Abhiram Davineni (’04) - Manager, Finance
Location : N/A
Email : ramdavy[at]bitsaa[dot]org
I am Abhiram Davineni of the 2004 Batch. I graduated from BITS -Pilani in 2008 with a B.E (Hons) Electronics and Instrumentation. I am currently a CFA level 3 candidate. I am also doing a Diploma in Economics, an external study programme from London School of Economics, Univ of London. During my four years of stay at bits I was involved in various activities. . I worked as a senior Core member for the Creative activities club. I played an active role in the Students union politics and also contested for the post of President, Student’s union council in my third year. I was a member of Mess Monitoring Committee and Andhrasamithi. I am Passionate about entrepreneurship, Economics and like to follow Indian politics and business trends. Apart from that i am an avid cricket fan and a music lover. | Sandeep Gummadi (’04) - Manager, Fundraising
Location : N/A
Email : sandeepgummadi[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sandeep is currently working as a Research Associate at Aranca Research Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai. He graduated with a Bachelor's in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in 2008.While on campus he was a dedicated member of the Department of Art 'n' Dee. He was an active participant in a number of entrepreneurship related activities and had also worked as a volunteer for some start-ups. He had worked as a Professional Assistant for the course on Entrepreneurship offered at BITS-Pilani. He enjoys travelling, dancing and talking about good old BITSian days. | Nilesh Rathi (’04) - Manager, BITSAA Scholarships
Location : N/A
Email : nilesh.rathi[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Nilesh is currently working as a software developer at Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad. He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. When at BITS, he led Maharashtra Mandal in 2005-06, was part of BOSM06 chess team and was associated with Hindi Drama Club. He loves playing chess, cricket and volleyball. He also enjoy traveling, trekking and swimming. | Sanket Shah (’05) - Manager, Human Resources
Location : N/A
Email : sanket.shah[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sanket is currently working for a start-up Enterux in Mumbai and slated to join Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. in June '10 based on his performance there in PS-2 and a subsequent interview. He did Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from the Goa Campus. At Goa campus he was involved in organizing various events for Waves and Quark. Married to technology in 2000, he checks his computer's status and email before brushing his teeth & he loves to experiment with everything around him. An adventure lover, he goes trekking regularly and has travelled through the length & breadth of India. With a voracious appetite for Music, he is always found listening to music when not listening. Always a revolutionary thinker, he wants to create work opportunities for the poor. | Ankur Arvind (’06) - Manager, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : N/A
Email : ankur[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ankur is currently a 3rd yearite and pursuing a dual in M.Sc.(Hons.) Chemistry & B.E.(Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Goa Campus. Apart from being an active part of the Let’s Promote BITS Pilani initiative, he is currently leading the BITSAA & BITS Embryo Public Relations at Goa Campus, acting as an interface between the alumni and students. He is also the Coordinator of the online campus newsletter, eBITSkrieg. Music is his passion & he loves listening to songs. Apart from this he is also fond of watching movies and cricket, outings and interacting with people. His interests include web designing and coding. Ankur desires to see BITS Pilani as one of the leading universities and desires to work for the cause even after graduating in 2011. | Rohan Sripad (’03) - Manager, Career Center
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : rohansripad[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rohan is a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung India, where he develops Mobile apps and platforms for Samsung, catering to CDMA Carriers. He graduated from BITS Pilani in 2007 with a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. At BITS, he was a member of EEE Association and Informalz. Currently, a Zonal Co-coordinator at Youth for Seva, he handles a host of projects ranging from Slum tuition centers to Orphanages to Cancer Institutes. He has marketed initiatives like the ‘School Kit Drive’ and ‘Sponsor a Child’ programmes and has raised funds for more than a thousand school kits. He is passionate about educating the younger generation, and empowering them for a brighter future. Rohan is passionate about Brands and Advertisements. Also he is huge fan of Robin Sharma & idolizes Steve Jobs. | Nivedita Ramesh (’03) - Manager, Communications
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : nivedita[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Nivedita is currently a Marketing Manager at Titan. She graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2007 with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, followed by MBA in Sales & Marketing from S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. At BITS, she was a part of the Department of Controlz, Ragamalika, Cactus Flower, as well as a short stint with the English Drama Club in her final semester. In her free time she likes to listen to music, read and blog. | Sukanya Vijayakumar (’02) - Manager, Communications
Location : Phoenix, AZ, USA
Email : sukanya[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sukanya (Chak to most BITSians) was at Pilani from 2002-2006 surviving civil engineering, and recently graduated from the Cronkite School in Arizona State University with a master's degree in media & communications. She was among the first students to work for BITSunami as part of PS2. Ragamalika, Backstage, English Drama Club and writing for Sandpaper 2.0 from campus kept her occupied at Pilani. She now volunteers with a Phoenix-based non-profit called IAPA that creates AIDS awareness in Chennai. She lives in Chandler, AZ. | Srikanth Sayiri (’04) - Manager, BITSAA India Trust
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : srikanthsayiri[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Srikanth is presently working as a Support Analyst for Mahindra Satyam in Hyderabad. He graduated from BITS-PILANI, GOA CAMPUS in 2008 with a B.E. (Hons) in Electronic and Instrumentation Engineering. At BITS, he had always participated in activities and took responsibilities at every opportunity. Initially, he started with Hostel Cultural representative and initiated Waves, the cultural festival of Goa Campus with the help of other representatives. Eventually, he became the President of Council for Students Affairs (CSA) which is Students' Union in the Goa Campus in 2006. During his tenure as the President, he organized Waves at a bigger level and took Quark, the Tech Fest to National level. He played a very important role in developing relation with Goan universities. He is one of the founders of Andhra Samithi in BITS PILANI GOA CAMPUS. He had represented BITSians in all his college life (2004-2008) and here he is , back again to serve the BITSian community | Mahima Jain (’05) - Manager, Communications
Location : N/A
Email : mahima8787[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Mahima Jain (aka MJ) is currently doing her PS2 in Bangalore and will be graduating in 2010 with M. Sc (Hons) Mathematics and B.E. (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Most of her time on campus was spent with the Department of Sponsorship and Marketing. From being a volunteer to a senior core member, she put her heart and soul into the department. Hailing from Delhi, she was amongst the founders of the Delhi Association (Capitol) in Pilani and also served as President for the Assoc. Her interests include reading, listening to music, talking non stop. | Sowmya Jayaraman (’99) - Manager, Communications
Location : London, UK
Email : sowmya[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sowmya graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2003 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science. After working in the telecommunications field for about 5 years, she recently completed her MBA from Manchester Business School, UK. At BITS, Sowmya was coordinator of SPICMACAY chapter and also involved in Music club, Press Club, Kairali and the Computer Science association. An avid music lover and performer, she loves dabbling in dance & theatre and also enjoys travelling and cooking. She is inspired by social and peace initiatives via music & hopes to startup similar projects | Vignesh Venkataraman (’04) - Manager, Alumni Membership
Location : Houston, TX, USA
Email : technovigno[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vignesh is currently working for Schlumberger (Houston Technology Center). He finished his Masters in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. He is also an Events Manager and Public Relations Officer at CRY (Child Rights and You), TAMU Chapter. He graduated with M.Sc (Tech) Information Systems, from BITS Pilani Goa Campus in 2008. While at BITS, he got involved in quite a few activities. Being the Academic Secretary of Information Systems group, he was actively setting up initiatives like ISPEAKS, an Interactive Learning Forum in Programming, and was also the founding Student Coordinator of Abhigyaan - Literacy Mission Society. He was involved in Organizing Waves'06 (Cul-Fest), and was an Event Manager in Quark'07 (Tech-Fest). He was also a Co-editor in the First edition of Sizzling Sand, Annual Magazine of BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus. He was the Secretary of Festive Committee (Durga Puja) and founding member of Tamil Sangam and NSS at Campus | Arun Prakash (’96) - Manager, Fundraising
Location : Memphis, USA
Email : arun.ashokan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arun is part of the supply chain team at Smith & Nephew, a medical devices manufacturer in Memphis, USA. Before joining Smith & Nephew, he worked in different roles from managing capital investment projects in the US to starting up distribution centers in Europe for Katoen Natie, a Belgian logistics company. Arun graduated from BITS in 2000 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and went on to complete his Masters in Industrial Engineering at Purdue. He currently lives in Memphis with his wife and two year old daughter. He is actively involved in the greening initiatives of Memphis in May International, a not-for-profit festival and fundraising for United Way of the Mid-South. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking in his neighborhood trails | Sourabh Agrawal (’06) - Manager, Campus Relations
Location : N/A
Email : sbhagrawal[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sourabh completed his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics & Instrumentation at Goa Campus and currently works as an ERS Consultant at Deloitte & Touche. He is small town boy who dreams to see his Nation at the top of the world. From his very first semester he was actively involved in the various activities of the campus. He was one of the few who got vertical transfer from chemical to E & I. He played a major role in the success of Zephyr-08 .His contribution towards Abhigyaan as a coordinator is remarkable. He along with his team managed to provide hospitality and info services to around 800 odd delegates across the world during ICER’08. As a President of Council for Student Affairs he has changed the face of the campus with respect to the general campus facilities. His dedication towards campus helped all three National level Festivals (Quark, Waves and Spree) to attain a remarkable height. As the placement coordinator in the final semester, he restructured the Placement Process of the campus. He belongs to the category of people who just not only comment on the flaws of any system, but actually get into the deep roots of the problem to make the system flawless and efficient. He is passionate about the development of the Rural India. He likes traveling and would love to go on a world tour | Srikanth Sridharan (’97) - Manager, Fundraising
Location : Singapore, India
Email : srikanth[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Srikanth works for IBM as a Senior Consultant in their Strategy and Transformation practice covering consulting engagements in business and operations strategy. At BITS, he was actively involved in the activities of Creative Activities Club and Department of Paper Evaluation and Presentation. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a job at Infosys in 2001 where he worked for over four years. Subsequently, he went on to complete his MBA from National University of Singapore Business School where he served as the President of the NUS MBA Students Council. Having gained a lot from the Bits2Bschool initiative, he has been an active member supporting fellow BITSians interested in pursuing their Business Studies in the ASEAN region. Srikanth lives in Singapore with his wife Archana. In his spare time, you can find him jogging down East Coast Park or trying to dish a few tunes out of his digital keyboard | Rohit Koul (’02) - Manager, Technology
Location : N/A
Email : rohit[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rohit is currently pursuing a MS/Ph.D in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also the core member of the Student ACM body and the Campus representative for Mozilla foundation. A 2006 CS graduate from BITS Pilani, he worked with Oracle India, Bangalore for three years in their Security and Identity management (IDM) group where he was awarded Special contribution and Innovation awards for two consecutive years. Back in BITS, he served as the Secretary of Network Security Forum (NSF) and a Core member of the Department of Lights while simultaneously holding core positions in other regional associations (Kongposh, PCA). He also conducted workshops on computer security for CS and IS Associations during APOGEE 2006 and won prizes in programming and paper presentation contests. A sound believer in Nash equilibrium and the theory "classes can dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity", he seems to think Aliens exist and Schroedinger's cat is not dead! He is also a fan of Rubics Cube, Federer, Arsenal, John Nash and the fictional Maths professor Charles Eppes (Numb3rs) and considers his Alan Turing Coffee Mug to be his most prized possession.When not pretending to solve CS problems in his head, he is most likely to be found trapped in Physics and Maths or contemplating about nature and the universe (in that order). | Aman Manglik (’05) - Manager, Newsletter
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : amanmanglik[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Aman graduated from BITS, Pilani Campus in 2009 with an M.Sc(Tech.) Information Systems degree and is currently working with Oracle India as a Software Developer. Before the current role in BITSAA he was also involved with BITSAA as part of the Embryo Project and played a key role in the development of the Embryo's Technology and Video infrastructure. Back at campus he was the Editor of the Information Systems Magazine "Tech'Know" and was also a prominent member of Photography Club. He was also attached to the Software Development & Educational Technology Unit(SDETU) at BITS and one of his efforts there can be seen as the BITS Pilani Official Website. Apart from being a Technology geek at heart his hobbies include Photography, Graphic Designing and Web Designing | Rahul Misra (’00) - Core Editorial Team, Sandpaper 2.0
Location : N/A
Email : rahulmisra722[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rahul Misra, a Civil and a Computer engineer rolled into one is one those super-achiever BITSians that leave people mesmerized. He was from the batch of 2000. He used to be the Senior Member of Technical Staff at Vendio. Inc in Bangalore, leading Vendio's Pre-Sales Development team until he decided to conquer GMAT. Now he is a MBA Candidate for 2010 in Said Business School, University of Oxford. Rahul has been a spectacular poet, a stellar tennis player, DOTS (Department of Theatre) Coordinator and a enthused CompSci student. He has won several awards for his creative poetry, some of which can be found in the past issues of BITSAA Sandpaper. He has been assisting SandP 2.0 for the past view months as part of the core Ed team. | Soumya Sen (’01) - Core Editorial Team, Sandpaper 2.0
Location : N/A
Email : N/A
Soumya Sen currently is a doctoral student at University ofPennsylvania.He got his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics & Instrumentationengineering from BITS Pilani in 2005. During his stay in BITS, he workedfor the English Press Club. He enjoys reading, writing, painting andsculpting in his spare time. Experimenting with various styles andmedium is a hobby that he has pursued for sometime now. He is also avolunteer for Association for India's Development, Philadelphiachapter. | Armaan Sinha (’05) - Core Editorial Team, Sandpaper 2.0
Location : Mumbai, India
Email : armaan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Armaan Sinha is a Mechanical Engineer from the Pilani batch of 2005. He is currently working with JP Morgan, Mumbai in Middle East M&A Advisory. In BITS, he was actively involved in diverse activities ranging from technical to cultural to literary, as a leader as well as a team member. Passionate about debating and poetry, he is an ardent follower of Ayn Rand and Khalil Gibran. He likes penning down my thoughts on abstract issues and human psychology & behavior. In his free time, he also enjoys swimming, travelling and video-making | Arjun Alok Goyle (’04) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : N/A
Email : aagoyle1[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arjun is currently pursuing a M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. He graduated from the first batch of Mechanical Engineering at BITS, Pilani - Dubai in 2008. At BITS, Arjun was the Student Member of the Academic Counselling Board and the President of the Photography Club - Reflexion. He was the founding member of the BPD Student Council and intitiated several programs like the BIT360 - Dubai, BITSAA Embryo. He also had the oppurtunity to do almost everything from singing, dancing, organizing Artex, B'Quizzed etc. Currently he is looking forward to visiting the campus in December and deliver a live Embryo Lecture. | Rahul Sarda (’06) - Team Leader, BITSEmbryo
Location : N/A
Email : rahulsarda[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rahul Sarda is currently pursuing M.Sc (Tech) Information Systems from BITS Pilani and will graduate in 2010. Selected as an official member of Project Embryo, in 2007, Rahul has been actively involved in most of its operations ever since. Currently, Rahul holds the post of the BITSEmbryo Coordinator at Pilani campus. As the coordinator, it has been his incessant endeavor to effectively marshal BITSEmbryo's resources for an efficient performance. Apart from engaging in BITSEmbryo operations, Rahul enjoys reading books, sketching, listening to music and watching nice Bollywood flicks. | Harshad Deshmukh (’06) - Team Leader, BITSEmbryo
Location : N/A
Email : harshad[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Harshad is pursuing dual degree in M.Sc (Hons) Mathematics & B.E (Hons) Computer Science. He is the leader of Communication Cell of BITSEmbryo. His role is to coordinate the activity of establishing the contact with alumni for BITSEmbryo lectures. He is also the Vice President of Maharashtra Mandal, a Regional Association which organizes various cultural programs and grubs. He has worked for the marketing of CURIE (Journal of Cooperation among University, Research and Industrial Enterprises) which is published by Practice School Division. Apart from keen interest in Mathematics, Harshad is fond of playing piano and singing. He has performed on stage in cultural nights and Ganeshotsav cultural programs. | Sidharth Thakur (’03) - Team Leader, BITSAA CEL Bangalore
Location : N/A
Email : sidhartha256[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sid (aka Sidhartha) works as a R & D Engineer, doing Logic Design and Simulation for the Systems and Technology group at IBM India Pvt. Ltd. He graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2007 with a B.E. (Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation. He loves to volunteer and is an active participant in several Non-Profits in Bangalore. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and has been a volunteer with BITSAA-CEL. While at BITS, he was an ardent Senior-Core member of the Department of Sponsorship and Marketing, and was a part of the VLSI group at OLAB. He was an active participant for the Instrumentation forum during Apogee 2004-2006. He likes to read and blog during leisure. He also loves to travel, and do some off-the-hook photography and believes in dreaming big. | Divya BP (’04) - Team Leader, BITSAA CEL Chennai
Location : N/A
Email : bp.divya[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Divya BP graduated from BITS, Pilani in the year 2009 after having completed her M.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics & B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical degrees. She is currently employed in 'Ernst & Young' as an Associate Consultant in the 'Climate Change & Sustainability Services' line, where she gets to work on various projects/issues related to climate change & carbon credits. She is extremely spontaneous and loves travelling. She has always enjoyed being a part of an event or an organization where she gets to meet people and exchange ideas and she enjoys the responsibility that comes with it.She finds BITSAA CEL, a strong platform to help her explore the various opportunities to expand her horizon and develop herself on so many frontiers. Apart from these, she is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and still continues to give performances in the city. | Harish Aditham (’06) - Team Leader, BITSAA CEL
Location : N/A
Email : harish.aditham[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Harish, infamously known as Bushu at BITS Goa, is an Instruite from the 2006 batch at Goa campus, and is currently in his psenti sem. Harish is passionate about entrepreneurship (declared a holder of one of the "Top 20 Entrepreneurial Ideas of India" at the Entrepeurship Summit '09 at IIT Bombay) and Sustainable Development (conferred the Global Urban Habitat Fellowship 2009 at the World Urban Habitat Summit, New Delhi). Harish is an avid quizzer and a literary buff. In campus, he has served as a Core Committee member of the Literary and Debating Club,the Quiz Club and is on the editorial team of the Campus Magazine. Harish is a regular on the national college fest circuit, regularly winning at various fests like Waves, Oasis, Quark, Shaastra and so on. Harish is also a budding writer, with his first book in the pipeline. In his spare time, Harish indulges in music, travelling and catching up with friends. He believes God has stop playing dice with universe and instead has become hooked onto Sudoku. | Anurag VNVJ (’06) - Team Leader, BITS2BSCHOOL
Location : N/A
Email : anuragvnvj[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Anurag (‘pink’ or 123 for his friends) is pursuing M.Sc. (Hons) Economics with B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering as his dual. In Goa campus, he has been associated with the sponz club for the Technical festival Quark, has been a part of the CAD (creativity and design) for CEL (centre for entrepreneurship) and deeply associated with the Economics Association and its events in Quark. Having being trained to play tabla since he was 10, he was one of the percussionists for the Music Club and performed on various occasions in the campus. This made him one of the percussionists for a band called ‘hiccups’, which uses only non-conventional instruments and performed at the ‘Sunset Fiesta-09’ in Goa. He has done a state of the art technology project on Radio frequency collocation solutions and interned at Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad which created his interest in SME empowerment. Apart from white water rafting, rappelling and indulging in late night ‘art appreciation’ sessions, he likes reading Paul Krugman’s column, Open Editorial in ‘The Hindu’ and autobiographies. He is a fan of Daniela Hantuchova, Jimmy Page and Austrian School of Thought. His interests include Business Cycles and Techno-Business Operations and soon, he hopes to see BITS, Pilani having the strongest Alumni network in Asia. | Chaitanya Garimella (’01) - Team Leader, BITSAA CEL Bangalore
Location : N/A
Email : chaitanyagvrk[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Chaitanya Garimella works for Accenture Service Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore leading multiple Telecom Domain Project's Software implementation. He graduated from BITS Pilani in 2006 with Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Mathematics. While at BITS, he was a Hostel Representative for year 2004-’05 and actively involved in the activities of the Students' Union Council. In addition to the daily Project activities, he is a core member in Acceture's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Literary Club & Project People Advocate (PPA) Teams. His interests vary across the Startups, B-Schools, SPICMACAY, Linguistics & Philosophy. | Vivaswan Pathak (’08) - Team Leader, Campus Relations
Location : N/A
Email : vivaswan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Vivaswan aka vivs is currently pursuing B.E.(Hons) in CSE in the Hyderabad Campus.In the past one year he has been actively involved in the cultural events like Foundation Day and Pearl.He is a nucleus member of SWD and holds the post of ChiefEditor,CSA.He has also developed websites for the institute and is the vice president of Sangam.He has been actively involved in BITSAA,both in the Scholarship team and Campus relations team.His interests ranges from skating,watching movies to reading novels and learning new technical stuff.He also loves music and is a budding violinist. | Saurabh Ladha (’08) - Team Leader, Campus Relations
Location : N/A
Email : saurabhladha[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Saurabh is currently a 2nd Yearite pursuing B.E. (Hons.) Electronics and Communication at BITS Pilani - Dubai. Apart from being the BITSAA Campus Relations representative for BPD he is also one of the two founding members of BITS Embryo Dubai and is currently leading the Embryo team at BPD. In addition, Saurabh also coordinated the first CEL Mantra Awards at Dubai (2008-2009). He currently holds the position of IEEE Secretary, BITS Pilani - Dubai Chapter. Photography being his passion, he took up the challenge of leading the BITS360 - Dubai team to the successful completion of the project. He has had the opportunity of working with the organizing team of B’quizzed and thoroughly enjoyed being a Quiz Master for the event! His hobbies include guitar, dramatics, compeering and reading. | Shalini Lahiri (’07) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : N/A
Email : shalinilahiri[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shalini is presently pursuing a B.E. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus. Currently she is going through the hectic motions of her CDC year. She describes herself as a creative and fun person, with a lot of energy and enthusiasm for whatever she decides to take up, even if it is as mundane as watching every sitcom in the world. Shalini is an avid quizzer and a lover of literature. Her other interests lie in writing and music. She has been a part of the Controls and Informals teams of the cultural fest, Waves and sports fest, Spree respectively. As of now, she's the Waves Coordinator for the Department of Journalism and Media Affairs, the PR Team Leader for the Andhra Pradesh region (to publicize the fests of Goa Campus) and a Core Member of the Quiz Club. Being very idealistic, she hopes for a future without any bigotry and discrimination against people on the basis of caste, creed, colour, gender, sexual orientation or religion. | Manju Vijayakumar (’01) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : N/A
Email : vmanju[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Manju holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and will soon hold a Masters degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. She worked for 2.5 years as a Software Engineer at United Online, Hyderabad in a team run by 3 bitsians (yes, mini BITS Hyderabad started long back for us). Then kept hopping in and out of companies like Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA and Akamai Technologies. At BITS, she tried hardcore to get an appealing menu into Meera Bhavan as the Mess Secretary. Last heard (from someone who mysteriously looks just like her ;-)), she was successful. She serves as the Co-President of Aggie Women in Computer Science, an ACM-W Chapter. She is also a volunteer with Association for India Development (AID) TAMU and New York Cares (she built homes, walked dogs, read to kids, painted walls and pulled out weeds at local parks all in the name of community service). She is a community blogger for Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and an Open Source developer with Apache Software Foundation. She loves comedy and drama (she is addicted to reality television). She is often found climbing rocks, running around till she goes breathless/thirsty (whichever happens first), lounging at airports (loves traveling), poking on facebook (she is very sociable), reading and writing random stuff, dancing on and off stage and staring at black vim terminals. If anyone has figured out by now, where her passion lies, do let her know. She however, is sure of one thing - she will write a bestseller one day. | Shreya Singh (’07) - Team Leader, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : N/A
Email : shreya[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Doing a dual in M.Sc.(Hons) Biological Sciences & B.E.(Hons.) Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Shreya has been very actively involved with the functioning of on-campus team of BITSAA. Apart from being a part of the Let’s Promote BITS Pilani team, she is currently the Joint Coordinator for BITSAA & BITS Embryo Public Relations at Goa Campus & is also very actively involved in the 100% placement initiative. She is also a Nucleus member of MATRIX-Goa Chapter which encourages reading & provides platform for a healthy discussion amongst the students & faculty. She loves sketching, dancing, watching movies & partying. Once she graduates in 2012, Shreya dreams to see BITS Pilani become the world's most acclaimed university with the strongest alumni base acting as its backbone. | Arnav Malik (’07) - Team Leader, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : N/A
Email : arnav[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arnav or fondly called as Arny is pursuing BE( Hons) Mechanical from Goa Campus. He is currently the Jt. Secretary of BITSAA Executive Committee (Goa Campus) and an integral part of the BITSAA and BITS Embryo Public Relations team. He is also coordinating BITSAA Intl’s LPBP initiative at his campus. He is very enthusiastic about potential business plans and loves discussing about them with his friends. He has also co-founded a startup TalkofCampus.com (currently in development stage) and is presently working with its marketing team. He is passionate about sports cars and would love to own a Merc SL 65 one day (soon ;) . | Subodh Chawla (’06) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : N/A
Email : subiboy[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Subodh Chawla is currently pursuing his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronic & Instrumentation Engineering from BITS, Pilani - Dubai. He is currently working at Siemens LLC as a part of his Practice School - II program. He is the Cultural Representative of his batch and has been organizing college events for the past three years which include Artex, Sparks, B’Quizzed and BITS Sports Festival. As the Student Representative and Pioneer of Student Council for Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), he organizes and co-ordinates media affairs. In BITSAA he holds the position of Secretary for BPD. He also is the student coordinator of Small Management Enterprises (SME) Builders. Having a passionate interest in business and finance, he aims to pursue his Masters in Business Administration. | Shashank Tandon (’05) - Team Leader, Human Resources
Location : N/A
Email : shashank[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shashank Tandon (aka Boxer), graduated from BITS, Pilani-Goa Campus in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics and is currently working as Application Developer for the Financial Services Group at CSC India. He has been a part of BITSAA at Goa right from inception and has given his heart and soul to the team starting as the sole member in the Public Relation team to leading a team of enthusiastic BITSians as the Public Relations Coordinator for BITSAA and BITS Embryo teams. He has also been involved in the Centre for Software Development, Melange- the annual yearbook besides being active in the EEE Association. Shashank is passionate enough about BITS to want to give something back to it and he is hoping that being part of BITSAA might enable that. His interests lie in travelling, swimming, reading, and maintaining his personal blog. | Divya Nawale (’03) - Team Leader, Fundraising
Location : N/A
Email : divya297[at]bitsaa[dot]org
An avid travel and dance enthusiast, Divya is the first BITSian woman to have touched land on world’s 7th continent- Antarctica, something that BITSAA takes pride in having been a sponsor for. A passionate Climate Change activist, she believes in ideas for Alternative Energies and working on Sustainable solutions for Social Development and Change. She has been a part of leading media groups like The HINDU and has worked towards increasing environmental awareness through various non-profits in India (IYCN) and across the world (2041.com). An ever-enthusiastic Dance Club member at BITS, she tries to keep up her zeal for dancing by performing in theatrical plays and dances at fund raisers and charity events. She was the Sports Secretary for Meera Bhavan while at college and used to enjoy being a part of NSS. She spends her weekends teaching Computers to visually-challenged kids and tries to keep up with the blogging world. Currently a student of Masters in International Relations at London, she also plays the guitar and loves to go bungee-jumping whenever she can. | Manuj Keshari (’05) - Team Leader, Human Resources
Location : N/A
Email : manuj[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Manuj is currently working with Tejas Networks in their embedded software development team. He graduated in 2009 from BITS Pilani, Goa Campus with a Bachelor's in Electronics & Instrumentation. He is passionate about Electronics related stuff. His other interests include blogging (on off-beat topics), reading books (of all kinds ranging from novels to philosophy to historical discussions), discussions and debates and of course listening to music. He also has a great enthusiasm for travel and adventure sports. He frequently makes trips to places of natural beauty | Maneesh Menon (’05) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : N/A
Email : mmenon[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Maneesh graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2009 with a B.E. (Hons.) Electrical & Electronics and is currently working as ASIC design engineer at Nvidia. Apart from getting the Graphic cards up & running he loves playing football and is an ardent Arsenal Fan .He has been actively volunteering with NGOs in initiatives to assist the visually challenged in use of computers.His activities in BITS included being a member of the BITS basketball team for three years, part of the VLSI group at OLAB & an active participant for the EEE assoc during Apogee 2006-2007. He enjoys public speaking & has been a regular at events such as BLAB, War of Words and Oasis Debate. As part of BITSAA team he wants to work towards strengthening the alumni network & developing the BITS brand. | Eshita Shah (’07) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : N/A
Email : eshita[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Eshita is currently pursuing M.Sc. Economics and B.E. Computer Science at the Goa Campus. She has been actively involved in BITSAA, public relations and BITS Embryo activities. Her role is to organize the activities of establishing contact with alumni for BITSAA activities and Embryo lectures. As the Media Co-ordinator for the Department of Sponsorship and Marketing, she is involved in publicizing the college fests and approaching sponsors for various events. She has been actively involved in the creative Workshops team for Waves-the cultural festival at Goa Campus.Eshita loves to paint and dance.She also enjoys meeting new people,listening to music and hanging out with friends. | Arpit Sharma (’05) - Team Leader, Fundraising
Location : N/A
Email : arpitsharma[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arpit shall be joining Credit Suisse's Prime Brokerage Division in July,2010. He is interested and has worked across multiple domains during his undergraduate studies by means of short term engagements from fashion design at Peter England to Consulting roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers to Signal Processing Research in Spain. His on-campus initiatives include setting up a Placement Cell in Pilani for pitching fresh recruiters for campus placements. He is also socially proactive and has been invited to deliver talks at International Conferences on Public Policy and Survival and Growth at times of Global Recession. He loves to read and engage with people from different walks of life. | Goonjan Mall (’06) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : N/A
Email : goonjanmall[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Goonjan Mall, belonging to the B.E. (Hons.) Electrical and Electronics class of 2010, is currently doing his PS-2 at Cypress Semiconductors, Bangalore. While on campus, he combined his love of meeting people and partying through countless laccha sessions at redis, Skylab, C'not and ANC. He was also an executive committee member of BITSAA, Pilani Chapter and a part of the BITS chess team at BOSM. Since leaving campus, one of his favorite activities has been to discuss the good old campus days! An efficiency freak and an expert in the art of jugaad, Goonjan harbours ambitions of ultimately being a successful entrepreneur. | Sarvani Yadavalli (’04) - Team Leader, Career Center
Location : New Delhi, India
Email : sarvani[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sarvani Yadavalli graduated from BITS, Pilani in 2008 with a B.E (Hons.) in Chemical Engg and is currently working as a System Design Engineer in BHEL, dealing with thermal as well as combined cycle power plants. At BITS, she served as the Secretary of Chemical Engineering Association, Vice President (chemical) - BITS Embryo. She also worked as PS Co-instructor, Professional Assistant for Engineering Services Division and was a part of the organizing team of National Conference for Environmental Conservation. All of these helped her in achieving the best outgoing Chemicalite for her all round performance. In the free time, she performs Kuchipudi dance shows. | Varun Shah (’05) - Team Leader, Career Center
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : varunshah87[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Varun graduated from BITS, Pilani Goa Campus in 2009 with a B.E (Hons.) in Chemical Engg and is currently working as a Technologist in Shell Technology India, working in the area of Acid Gas Treating. At BITS, he served as the Coordinator of Technical Committee of the Chemical Engineering Association. He also worked as an event manager during Quark, the tech fest of BITS Goa. | Aishwarya Raghavan (’04) - Team Leader, Career Center
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : aishwarya.raghavan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Aishwarya Raghavan holds Master of Management Studies and M.Sc. (Finance) from BITS. She currently works in the Product Management Group at Saint Gobain. She also has the experience of having worked in a few start-ups. While at BITS, Art n Dee- Structure side was her identity. Besides that, she had also served the Management Association as Vice-President. She enjoys reading and occasionally writes. Fitness is her new-found obsession and she hopes to run a marathon someday. But above all, she loves traveling, of which her job leaves no dearth of. | Narayan Govindaraj (’04) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : Chennai, India
Email : narayan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Narayan (aka Naaru) is a Project Management Executive at Logica Pvt.Ltd. He graduated from BITS,Pilani-Goa Campus in 2008 with a Bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronics. He also assumes the post of Special Interest Group Manager at Logica covering its 3 offshore centres - Madras, Bangalore & Bombay & has been managing employee-centric activities. Apart from being questioned on the electrical engineering concepts, he loves evrything in his life! He has been actively involved in CSR activities at Chennai, he is a food maniac, a Philatelist & a budding photographer. | Shailendra Gupta (’07) - Team Leader, Campus Relations
Location : Jaipur, India
Email : shailendra[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shailendra Gupta(’07) is currently pursuing his B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering at BITS-PILANI, Goa Campus. Working on the simple ideology that "By any means Work will be done...the only thing which matters is that you are a part of it or not...”, he loves doing all kind of work altruistically. In his first year, along with his friends, he jointly organized Kite Flying Competition for the very first time in the campus. He was the co-founder of Book Bank at Goa Campus. He worked as the Food Management Department Head for ICER - 08 (International Conference on Environmental Research). Inducted as a member of Team BITSAA, logistics department, he contributed to Melange, Yearbook ’05 as an Editor and Yearbook’06 as Chief Editor. He worked as Deputy Event Manager for VLSI Design Contest, Quark 2009 (Annual Technical Festival of BITS - Pilani, Goa) and as Joint Coordinator, Information Management Department, Quark 2010. He also worked as Practice School - 1 Student Representative for 2007 Batch. In his 4th year at campus, he will be working as Team Leader – Campus Relations, Goa Campus. He enjoys listening to music and chatting with friends. Having deep interest in electronics and astronomy, he would love to be a part of the team which would bring a revolution in the near future. | Gautam Mediratta (’08) - Team Leader, Campus Relations
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : gautam[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Gautam is pursuing Bachelor of Engineering Hons. in Electrical and Electronics engineering from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, he is currently core member in Department of Controlz, and member English Press Club. Also he has recently joined the Debating Society at BITS Pilani. Known to function from his hideout in Cnot, he managed the BOSM blog this year for BITSAA Campus Buzz. | Ramkumar Shankaranarayan (’04) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : ramk[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ramkumar is currently working with a Software Engineer at Limberlink Technologies, a mobile & internet services startup. He graduated from BITS goa in the year 2009 with a dual degree M.Sc.(Hons) in Physics & B.E (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE). Passionate about Quizzing , he co founded the Quiz club @ BITS. He also co-founded department of Photography in BITS goa. He was the cul-rep for hostel AH-2. He was also a part of the marketing committee for waves & event manager for quark. Ramkumar enjoys listening to music, trekking, reading philosophy & debating. | Raghavendra Datta Palleti (’06) - Team Leader, Human Resources
Location : Vishakhapatnam, India
Email : raghavendra[at]bitsaa[dot]org
P Raghavendra Datta is known more as 'PRD' or 'Wiki' than by his original name - the second nickname 'conferred' because he reads Wikipedia articles 'for fun'. He is a 5th year student of M.Sc(Hons) Mathematics and B.E (Hons) Chemical Engineering at the Goa Campus. He has varied interests, ranging from politics, policy implementations and economics to the evolution of rock music and b-boy culture. At BITS, he was Core committee member of the Department of Journalism and Media Affairs and worked as Chief Correspondent for Media and PR. He was also a member of the Department of Publicity and Public Relations and the Literary and Debating Club and loves late night debates. He is a quiz and trivia addict. When he is not busy tweeting or blogging as Social Media Manager at LetMeKnow.in, a tech startup, he spends his time reading - favorites being Ayn Rand and Robert Ludlum, listening to music - anything from Megadeth to M.S.Subbulakshmi, or kicks back with a movie. He is a movie buff and absolutely adores Quentin Tarantino and Francis Coppola. | Kushal Agarwal (’05) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : Pune, India
Email : kushal[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Kushal Agarwal, graduated from BITS, Pilani-Goa Campus in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics and is currently working for John Deere, India. He is also working with a not-for-profit organisation, looking after its marketing and sales. In campus, he played a key role in the inception of various clubs like Cypress Semiconductors Club,Department Of Sponsorship and Marketing and Digital Signal Processing Club. He also worked as the Event manager for the Gaming festival held during Quark. He is passionate about Enterpreunership, Investing and enjoys sketching,reading and listening to music. | Ravish Subramanya (’07) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : ravish.subramanya[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ravish graduated in 2009 with a M.S. Software Systems degree from BITS, Pilani. He is currently working as Project Lead in SunGard Technology Services, Bangalore. His interests are more on exploring cutting edge technologies and developments, people and performance management and processes to make ourselves better and competitive. He loves to play chess, cricket and table tennis and his favorite pass time is listening to music. | Navjot Kukreja (’05) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : navjot[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Navjot graduated from BITS, Pilani - Pilani Campus in 2009 with a B.E. (Hons.) Electrical and Electronics degree and is currently working as part of Bravo Lucy, which is a startup in the field of Supply Chain Management. In the past he has been a part of the startup PhokatCopy, as well as the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi. He is a true techie at heart and loves to spend his free time hacking up Perl scripts. At BITS, he helped revive the dying Department of Reporting and Networking (which funnily enough, died again after his time) and had a short stint with Backstage. He is an avid traveler and an amateur guitarist. | R. Pitchappan (’04) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : pitchappan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
I'm currently working as Applications Programmer Analyst at Wells Fargo India Solutions, Hyderabad. I graduated from BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus in 2009 with dual degrees in B.E. (Hons.) Electronics & Instrumentation and M.Sc. (Tech.) Information Systems. I am always fascinated by the power of internet and other revolutionary technologies that aid human progress and solve problems. I did my PS-1 @Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, and PS-2 for a year @Oracle India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore. I was one of the prominent founding members of Music Club (now the Music Society) in Goa Campus as a keyboardist. I completed 2nd Grade in Electronic Keyboard from Trinity College of Music, London. I also played an important role in the Mime Club at Goa Campus as a musician. I love Yoga, and I also got the title 'Yoga Ratna' from Divine Life Society, Chennai. I play table tennis, lawn tennis and flute and am a movie buff too! | Rakesh Ganatra (’06) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : rakeshrganatra[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rakesh, fondly known as Raka is pursuing his B.E.(Hons.) Degree at BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus. He is currently working at Amazon.com, Hyderabad as a part of his Practice School - II program. At BITS, he has held various leadership posts - Campus Network Co-ordinator as a part of Center for Software Development, Academic Representative for the Computer Science branch for the academic year 2008-2009, Sun Campus Ambassador for two consecutive years and Placement Co-ordinator for the August - November 2009, placement session. He was also actively involved in campus fests being a core member of the Department of Publicity and Public Relations. He has been selected as Batch Representative for the 2006 batch by the BITSAA on-campus team. He likes traveling and is fond of outings and interacting with people. He is passionate about technology and desires to see BITS as one of the leading universities in the world and is all set to play his part in making this dream come true through BITSAA. | Ayoosh Bansal (’06) - Team Leader, Campus Relations
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : ayoosh[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ayoosh Bansal (aka bansi) is a 2006 batch student of B.E. EEE from Pilani campus. With his unmatched energy levels and passion for everything he takes up,bansi truly represents the ingenious and multi-talented 2K6 batch of the Pilani campus.From being the Joint Coord of Instrumentation assoc to the Placement Coordinator in his psenti sem, he has managed it all and still maintained a 100% attendance in all the vellapan and fun sessions with friends.Add to this his academic achievements and love for sports, and here we have our perfect all-rounder. His remarkable contributions and commitment make him the heart and soul of DoT(Department of Theatre), of which he has been an active member throughout his Bitsian life and still continues to be a favourite among his juniors and batchmates alike.Also,he was an ExComm of Capitol and participated in grubs and assoc nites with amazing enthu.Soon he'll be working as a member of the technical staff at NetApp,India. Bansi's favourite timepass is coming up with the most degraded, senseless,and strictly non-funny PJs and pfunds. Also his special love for anime and cartoons(powerpuff girls being his favourite :P) is worth a mention here.He is also a voracious reader(mostly fiction) ,a sports enthusiast(no matter what his physique suggests :P) and loves playing computer games.As already said ,the perfect all-rounder. | Rohan Gujarati (’08) - Team Leader, Pilani Campus, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : N/A
Email : N/A
Rohan Gujrati ('08) is currently pursuing his B.E (Hons) in Electronics and Instrumentation from BITS Pilani. He has worked with 'Let’s Promote BITS Pilani' for almost a year. With a lot of patience and effort he turned a one man army into a team of 6 dedicated LPBP members, who are now managing the Pilani campus and have made LPBP active as never before, in Pilani. He has a keen interest in football and cricket. He played as a mid-fielder for his team 'The Reincarnated' in the BITS Premier League, for two years. He was also a part of his hostel cricket team who were runners-up in the Intra-bhawan cricket tournament. He loves surfing the internet and hanging out with friends. | Rohit Ratnaparkhi (’08) - Team Leader, Dubai Campus, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : N/A
Email : ratnaparkhi.rohit[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rohit Ratnaparkhi is presently pursuing a B.E (Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from BITS-Pilani, Dubai. Apart from being a part of major BITSAA initiatives like the BITS 360 and BITS Embryo, he is also the Lead for the LPBP Team for the UAE Section. In addition to this he is the Cultural Head for his Year at the Student Council. He is presently serving as the Treasurer of the IEEE Student Branch and as the Publicity Chair for the Society of Automotive Engineers. He has also organized various events at college level which include Trebuchet Building, Bridge Building, and Student Paper Contest etc. Having a keen interest in Photography, he has covered around 50 events for the college over the past two years. He is also one of the Moderators on the BITS 360 Forum which is aimed at helping freshers who tend to seek advice before joining BITS. He enjoys reading books, loves travelling and is passionate about adventurous activities like Paragliding etc. | Sana Zaman (’08) - Coordinator, Dubai Campus, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : N/A
Email : sana.zaman[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sana Zaman is currently pursuing her B.E(Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from BITS-Pilani Dubai campus. In the past two years at the institution she has actively pursued many of her interests and represented the college at various competitions. Keen on public speaking, she is a member of the debate club and was also the winner of the Best Delegate Award at the BITS Model United Nations at Apogee-2009. She has always had an inclination toward writing and is a senior reporter of the college's in-house magazine,'@ BITS Dubai'. She also serves as the Publicity Chair of the Society of Automotive Engineers and is a member of IEEE, the Student Council and the Basketball Team. Observing art, poetry, writing and dramatics has always been her passion. | Shantanu Garg (’06) - Team Leader, BITSAA CEL
Location : San Fransisco, USA
Email : shantanu[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shantanu is currently pursuing his Masters at Stanford University in their Management Science & Engineering Department. While at BITS, he headed the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership as its President and founded the Department of Creative Works. He was also a member of the founding team of Department of Sponsorship and Marketing. He worked for various start-ups including his own during his four years at BITS. He loves traveling and meeting new people. | Arpit Mohan (’05) - Team Leader, BITSAA CEL
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : mohanarpit[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arpit currently works as a developer for a unified mobile application platform at Kony Labs at Hyderabad, India. In the past, Arpit has been involved extensively with CEL-Pilani as the Coordinator for Conquest 2008. At CEL, Arpit have also contributed towards the development of a market simulation game 'Stimulus' which aims to aid entrepreneurs predict market reactions to their products. Aside from this, he have been active at the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS) at Pilani; most notably initiating the development of India's first humanoid, ACYUT | Ankit Gupta (’07) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : Pilani, India
Email : ankitgupta[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ankit (fondly called "Langia") is struggling with M.Sc. Mathematics and B.E. Computer Science at Pilani Campus. An experienced developer and graphic designer now, he started off his professional career by founding a designing firm "ADshack Studio" while he was a sophomore. He now runs innovese(http://www.innovese.com), an IT solutions providing start-up. An active member of the Department of Publications & Correspondence has been designing posters and other materials for OASIS and BOSM for three years, He now also Heads the dept. as CoSSAcn. Ankit has been the Webmaster at Computer Science Association(CSA, BITS Pilani) for the academic year 2009-2010 | Abhinav Kasliwal (’06) - Team Leader, Human Resources
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : abhinav.kasliwal[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Abhinav is a 2006 Batch student of B.E.(Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation at BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus. He is currently working at Hewlett-Packard, Bangalore. He is the founding member of Electronics and Robotics Club at BITS-Pilani, Goa. Abhinav has served as Academic Representative and Placement Co-ordinator for Electronics and Instrumentation Branch at BITS-Pilani, Goa. He has actively contributed as Finance Committee member in Spree (Sports Fest at BPGC) and Marketing Committee member in Waves (Cultural Fest at BPGC). He has won many prizes in events at Quark(Tech Fest at BPGC) and IITB Techfest. He has also served as member in an initiative called Abhigyan at BITS-Pilani, Goa to teach mess workers, labourers and their children. Abhinav likes music, is a basketball lover, fond of chess, enjoys travelling and making friends | Hareesh Jayaraman (’05) - Team Leader, Human Resources
Location : Mumbai, India
Email : hareeshjayaraman[at]bitsaa[dot]org
J.Hareesh graduated from BITS, Pilani - Goa campus in 2009 with a B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics & Instrumentation and is currently working as an Associate in Morgan Stanley Advantage Services, Mumbai. He has also worked in Texas Instruments, Bangalore as a part of his PS2 program. At BITS he has held various leadership posts. He was actively involved with the Dramatics club of which he was a founding member and subsequently the Coordinator. He was also a core member and the Treasurer of ENIGMA, the EnI Association in campus. He has also been an Event Manager for all Dramatics events of Waves 2008, the annual national cultural festival of BITS Pilani, Goa Campus. He was a part of the placement cell and served as a Placement Coordinator in his final year. But his most prized achievement, he feels is organizing, coordinating and conducting Abhinaya - a cultural performance of Drama and Mime representing BITS Pilani Goa Campus to the Goan Navy fraternity at the Rajhans Navy Auditorium in Goa. Hareesh is basically a social person and loves to get know people. He is passionate about biking and traveling to scenic locations and has had numerous bike / road trips in Goa and Mumbai. A perfect movie-aholic that he is, he has to get his daily dose of atleast one movie! | Arpitha Dhanapathi (’02) - Team Leader, Alumni Membership
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : arpitha[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Arpitha is currently working as a software engineer at Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd in Hyderabad. She is in the security team in Server technologies group. She pursued her Information Systems(C6) and passed out from BITS in 2006 with PS-II at Yahoo! Bangalore, and has been working with Microsoft since then. Back in BITS and currently in Microsoft, she has been a contributing member of various initiatives and activities. At BITS - she was the Executive Committee member for Andhra Samiti, worked with Informalz department, was a member of My India-Gyan Bodh activity, witnessed the inception of CEL by being one of the first members and carrying out initial activities to establish the group, was student co-ord for PS-I, student co-instructor for CP-II & EG. At Microsoft, she is the core committee member for 'Giving Campaign' - an annual CSR drive to raise funds for NGOs. She loves reading, scribbling down thoughts, music, nature, dance and has also given various onstage dance performances ( while at school, college and work) | Anish Tallapureddy (’03) - Team Leader, Alumni Membership
Location : Chennai, India
Email : anish[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Anish is currently working at Cypress Semiconductor as Business Development Asst. Manager, and focuses on inorganic growth avenues, strategic partnerships and investments for Cypress. He graduated from IIM Calcutta in 2010 specializing in Finance and Strategy and from BITS Pilani in 2007 with B.E(Hons) Electronics & Instrumentation. After BITS, he worked with Larsen & Toubro Ltd. as a Management Trainee in their Industrial Electronics Division for a year. At BITS, he was a student representative of the Instrumentation Forum and was an active quizzer. In his spare time he enjoys reading, quizzing and watching movies | Sandeep Thalapaneni (’02) - Team Leader, Fundraising (Business Development)
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : sandeep.t[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sandeep (a.k.a Sandy) is an Enterprise Software Developer at SAP Labs in Bangalore, currently working on Life-cycle Management in Business Intelligence domain. Prior to this, he interned at Business Objects. He graduated with Honors in 2007 with dual degrees, Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Sciences, . At Pilani, he was the Secretary of Chemistry Association, Hostel Committee member of Gandhi Bhawan and an Executive committee member of the Recreational Activity Forum. He worked as a Student Co-instructor for PS-I and also hosted shows for Nirmaan (My India). In addition he served as Vice President of Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, where he led the Operations domain. His career interests are Product Management and Entrepreneurship. An avid dance enthusiast, he had the opportunity to indulge in this passion through Dance Workshop, Dancers Inc. | Sadhya Sharma (’05) - Team Leader, Fundraising (Business Development)
Location : Chennai, India
Email : sadhya.s[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sadhya works with the Verizon in Chennai as a Software developer. She completed her Electrical and Electronics degree from Pilani in 2009. Apart from fixing bugs in her application, she is a member of WAVE: Women association of Verizon Employees and the Diversity Council at Verizon. She has been teaching the language - English to underprivileged kids as a MAD volunteer at an NPO, Bhumi. Besides teaching, she is also a member of the Think Green Initiatives at Bhumi which include the Free the Tree Campaigns and Park Development Activity.At BITS, she worked as a volunteer with DOPY and NSS. She loves reading books, especially by Indian authors | Srikanth Tirunagari (’03) - Team Leader, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : srikanth.t[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Srikanth is an analyst developer at Goldman Sachs and has experience in developing trading and servicing applications for derivative products. He graduated from BITS-Pilani in 2007 with a B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. While at BITS, he was an active member of EEE Association and Art n Decoration Department. He was also a member of CEL. He is passionate about entrepreneurship. He is currently the team leader for Lets Promote BITS Pilani | Ravish Vijay Prabhu Desai (’04) - Team Leader, Lets Promote BITS Pilani
Location : Mumbai, India
Email : raviprdesai[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ravish aka Ravi aka IMP graduated in 2008 with a B.E (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engg. from BITS Pilani, Goa campus. He is currently working as a deputy manager at Reliance Technology Innovation Centre - Reliance ADAG. Prior to Reliance , he has research experiences at Infineon Technologies, Singapore and D-Link, Goa. While at BITS, he was a member of the organizing committee of Waves-06 and Waves-07. He was also a founding member of the Dramatics club, Maharashtra mandal and EEE Association at BITS- Pilani Goa campus. His interests include travelling, photography and listening to music. Having a passionate interest in business and finance, he aims to pursue his Masters in Business Administration | Sreekanth Ramakrishnan (’00) - Chief Portal Designer, Career Center
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : sreekanth.ramakrishnan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Sreekanth, is currently working with Yahoo! India Private Ltd as a Senior Software Engineer contributing to to Apache Hadoop. He graduated from BITS Pilani in 2006 December with M.E in Software Systems and M.Sc(Tech) Engineering technology. In spare time, Sreekanth enjoys playing latest games and keeping updated on what is happening in Large scale computing areas | Neha Nair (’06) - Editor, Newsletter
Location : Kolkata, India
Email : nehanair[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Neha Nair is currently pursuing her Term I at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) after having completed her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani – Dubai (BPD). Besides having been the Senior Editor for @bitsdubai, she has held the post of the General Secretary in the Student Council, has represented BPD on television [a very 'interesting' experience she says!] and considers herself very lucky to be the first recipient of the Mantra Award for Extraordinary Leadership Potential - Female. A self proclaimed motor-mouth and extrovert, when she is not busy grappling with Financial Accounting and juggling group meetings, Neha’s interests include reading, dabbling in art & craft, debating, meeting new people and then some more reading | Chetan Bansal (’08) - Team Leader, Technology
Location : Goa, India
Email : chetan[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Chetan is currently pursuing B.E. (hons.) Chemical Engineering and MSc. (hons.) Biological Science at BITS Pilani,Goa Campus. He has worked as a Application developer, Web developer, Intern in a wide variety of projects for various Open source Organizations and Start Ups. He has been selected for Google Summer of Code twice in 2009 and 2010, during which he worked with the BioInformatics Group based at UCSF and Univ of Maastricht. He started (and closed) his own Web host before joining college. In college, he has been a core member of various clubs and departments like Department of Publicity and Center for Software Development. Right now, he serves as the Chairman for Association for Computing Machinery, BITS Goa - Chapter | Priyanka Bheemavarapu (’03) - Core Member, BITS.aid
Location : N/A
Email : priyanka[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Priyanka is a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Bangalore where she is also a leader at the Women's Action Network promoting Inclusion and Diversity. She volunteers for Cisco Networking Academy and is the Campus Ambassador for BITS-Pilani from Cisco. She is also the first employee based out of India to be awarded the "Unsung Heroes" award in her Business vertical for going above and beyond her job role at various organizational activities. She serves as the VP for the Toastmasters club at Cisco. At BITS, Priyanka served as the Secretary, EEE Association. She was part of the Constitution Review and Amendment Committee (CRAC), EEE Editorial board and Oasis Press Club.Priyanka enjoys singing and is trained in Carnatic music. | Ramachandra Deepak Gurajada (’01) - Core Member, BITS.aid
Location : N/A
Email : gsrdeepak[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ramachandra Deepak Gurajada is a 2001 batch BITSian, currently working as Development engineer at Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany. He is a skilled member of the Intellectual Property Reuse group which provides design solutions for communication electronics. He has been a core member of hardware verification group for the past four years in developing state of art ASIC and SoC Verification methodologies. He holds a B.E. (Hons.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from BITS-Pilani and is an active member at Arbeitskreis Kultur und Sprachen Indiens (AKSI) e.V. in Munich. He is an active volunteer at ISKCON and also enjoys doing spiritual service. His interests include trekking, swimming, jogging, inline skating, cycling, exploring new places and watching movies. He is quite enthusiastic to learn new languages and cultures. | Amitansu Kar (’03) - Core Member, BITS.aid
Location : N/A
Email : kara[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Amitansu (Kara) is currently working at D.E.Shaw & Co, Hyderabad as a Senior Software Developer. He graduated from BITS-Pilani in 2007 with B.E (Hons) in Computer Science. He is part of the Project Management Team of BITS.aid. While at BITS, he was the Secretary of the Computer Science Association and the Secretary of Utkal Samaj. His passions include cricket, food and travelling. | Samyuktha Hari (’03) - Core Member, BITS.aid
Location : N/A
Email : samyukthahari[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Samyuktha Hari is a Software Engineer at Symphony Services, Bangalore. She graduated from BITS, Pilani with a B.E. (Hons) Mechanical in 2007. She is a member of Marketing & Strategy Planning team of BITS.aid. At BITS, she was a core member of the Mechanical Engineering Association and a member of the Design Team during APOGEE. She is an avid reader and loves Indian mythology and culture. Her other interests include social service, politics, entrepreneurship and environmentalism. | Mayur Patnala (’02) - Core Member, BITS.aid
Location : N/A
Email : N/A
Mayur currently works with IBM, Product Development Lab, Hyderabad and serves as Senior Software engineer, in development of ETL Tool (DataStage), Information Management business. He is from 2002 Batch from Pilani campus and took a dual-degree in B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical and B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science and practice school-II internship at Enerbility, Vienna, Austria. He has a rich experience of 5 years in social sector. At Pilani, co-founded Nirmaan (erstwhile, My INDIA) along with Rakesh Anugula, a social movement to achieve a developed India in February 2005. He played a key role in the organizational development and sustainability of the organization for the last 5 years. Nirmaan (www.nirmaan.org) is now a registered Not-for-profit organization focusing on providing education and livelihood opportunities to the unprivileged people across the country with teams at BITS-Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad campuses, and at Hyderabad, Bangalore etc., with 500 BITSians involved out of 750 registered members of the organization. At Pilani, he has pursued his various interests by being a member of English Press Club for APOGEE, took initiatives like SUNRISE, an e-newsletter & discussion forum, a core member of Mechanical Engineering Association by involving in projects like Solar Car etc., and also, pursued his passion for dancing by giving performances through Dance Workshop by Dance Club. His passions lie in Societal development through Civil Societies, Social Entrepreneurship and Indian Politics. | Mayank Mohta (’06) - Volunteer, BITSAA Scholarships
Location : N/A
Email : mayankmohta[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Mayank is currently pursuing Computer Science Engineering at the Pilani campus. He has a great academic record and is currently engrossed in exploring new facets in Computer Science. He works with the Department of Sponsorship and Marketing and is the Google Campus Ambassador for the current academic year. He has been a part of the Rural Entrepreneurship Development division of Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL). He has keen interest in sketching and enjoys playing football and badminton in his free time. | Barath Chandrashekar (’07) - Volunteer, BITSAA Scholarships
Location : N/A
Email : barathcj[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Barath is currently pursuing a EEE degree from BITS, Pilani. He is a member of Sponz and has been a part of the BITS football team for 2 years. Currently the joint secretary of The English Drama club, he has also been involved in inviting rock bands to campus through Arbits. His interests lie in travelling, reading, music (budding guitarist!) and in education. He is a volunteer with the NGO, Chirag. | Shalini Dwivedi (’07) - Volunteer, BITSAA Scholarships
Location : N/A
Email : shalini931[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shalini is currently pursuing Chemical Engineering at the Goa Campus. She has been an integral part of the BITSAA and BITS Embryo Public Relations team for over a year. She has been instrumental in contacting many alumni in numerous fields for various reasons with rewarding results. She has also been associated with Goa campus’ Cultural Festival, Waves and Technical Festival, Quark (as an event manager). She was also a member of the Controls committee the inter-hostel festival, Zephyr 07. She has been working for the social initiative ABHIGYAAN for the past two years and intends to continue. This initiative aims at educating children who are devoid of the educational facilities due to unfortunate circumstances. She is enthusiastic about reading (almost about anything), writing and sketching. She also loves travelling having already covered most of India. | Abhishek Chandna (’08) - Volunteer, Communications
Location : N/A
Email : abhi_bitshyd[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Abhishek Chandna (aka abhi) is currently pursuing his dual degree in MSc (Hons.) Chemistry and B.E. (Hons) EEE in the Hyderabad Campus. The past one year at BITS has been an enriching experience for him .Be it Pearl, Foundation Day, Or Science Day, he tried his level best in being an active participant in all of them. Apart from being associated with the Communications Department of BITSAA, he is presently working as the Secretary of the Chemistry Association and is a student member of the BITS EMBRYO Team. He was a part of the Editorial Board of CEL and he is also an active member of English Literary Club and Dramatics Club. A rapacious reader-that's how his friends quote him. His interests range from technical stuff to reading highly fictitious novels to watching and playing sports. But amidst all this, the time spent with his infinitely many pals are the most treasured and precious moments of his life. | Utkarsh Mehrotra (’09) - Volunteer, Campus Relations
Location : N/A
Email : utkarshmehrotra[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Utkarsh is currently pursuing Msc.(Hons.) Economics from the Hyderabad Campus. An energetic and cheerful person, Utkarsh joined the Campus Relations Team in August 2009, right after being inducted into the Bitsian family. He shares the passion of the Campus Relations Team i.e. to enhance the relationship between Bitsians, all over the globe, and their Alma Mater. He has contributed productively to the efforts of the Campus Relations Team, right from his induction. He shares an innate obligation to give back to the society. To channelize his desire he is coordinating the efforts of organizations like Teach For India and National Social Entrepreneurship Forum as their Campus Ambassador for the Hyderabad Campus. Within the campus he is the member of the Sponsorship and Marketing Department for Pearl. He is a part of the college Soccer team and also loves to do photography. | Pratik Lahiri (’06) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : N/A
Email : pratiklahiri06[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Pratik Lahiri is currently pursuing MSc Biological Sciences and BE Computer Science at the Goa Campus. He has been a member of BITSAA for 2 years and is now on the executive committee. He is actively involved in BITSAA activities and has helped shape the team in its formative years He was the treasurer for Symbionts the Biological Sciences Association for the academic year 2008-09. He has been a member and coordinator of the Symbionts newsletter too. His career interests are research in molecular biology, molecular computing. He likes to spend his time watching movies and reading fiction (a lot). He also likes traveling and travels extensively during vacations. | Rachit Chandra (’06) - Volunteer, Fundraising
Location : N/A
Email : rachit[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Rachit Chandra is doing B.E.(Hons.) in Computer Science from Pilani Campus. He grew up in Arunachal Pradesh and thanks his mother for making him an ardent reader. At BITS, he was the President of CEL. He also contested for post of the President of SU but (in) famously came second to 'None of the Above'. He is passionate about eliminating poverty through enterprise. In his last assignment, he used Google Maps (and some 'jugaad') to increase the efficiency of loan officers at a micro-finance company. Rachit is the only person to be a Goldman Sachs Global Leader (Class of 2008) and an Aditya Birla Scholar (Batch of 2006). He loves traveling cheap, reading books about post-1947 India and tasting wine. | Piyush Kaushal (’06) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : N/A
Email : piyushkaushal[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Piyush Kaushal is currently pursuing his Bachelors in Electronics & Instrumentation at Pilani campus. He can be best described as a workaholic and perfectionist. He has been an extremely active member of the Dept. of Controlz. Piyush introduced a computerized system for registration of participants for Oasis and Apogee and was also instrumental in getting ISO certification for APOGEE. He organized and participated in cultural events as an ex-com member of the Punjabi Cultural Association and is a founding member and ex-president of Symposiarch (The Debating Society) at BITS-Pilani. He has participated and won B-Plan competitions, case study competition etc. and was a member of the Student Aid Fund too. His other activities on campus include being a member of the BOSM Power Lifting and Athletics teams. Piyush loves automobiles, basketball, travelling and photography and his career interests are in the field of marketing, consulting and management. | Madhukar Reddy Banuri (’03) - Volunteer, Sandpaper 2.0
Location : N/A
Email : madhukar.banuri[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Madhukar Banuri is a senior Fellow at Teach For India. He works as a class teacher in a low-income municipal school in Pune, trying to decrease the inequity existing between his students and their rich peers, using the best known teaching practices and content from around the world. At TFI he is also a fellow-advisor for the fresh fellows. Prior to TFI, Madhukar was a Product Marketing Manager at Larsen & Toubro in Mumbai. At L&T he introduced a new product line and was responsible for its sales and profitability. A 2003 batch engineer of Electrical & Electronics, he was the Treasurer of EEE Association and the Co-ordinator of Dance Workshop. He was also on the Editorial team of BITSAA Yearbook 2003 and was involved with Networks Domain of CEL. Passionate to learn about youth and women empowerment, he is a frantic movie and food buff who loves traveling. Presently working on a school-development project, he believes that 'Teaching is Leadership' | Ritesh Nagpal (’02) - Volunteer, Sandpaper 2.0
Location : Bangalore, India
Email : ritesh416[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ritesh Nagpal graduated from BITS-Pilani in 2006. During his BITSian life, he held several student-positions like Student Editor BITScan Magazine, President Marudhara Association and Joint Co-ordinator Hindi Activities Society. He obtained MS degree from Purdue University in 2009. He is currently working with a Start-up in Bangalore. His hobbies include reading and writing | Madhu Singh (’08) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : Goa, India
Email : madhusingh[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Madhu Singh is currently pursuing B.E. (Hons) Chemical at BITS Pilani Goa Campus. She has been actively involved with the Department of Sponsorship and Marketing for the last two years and is presently Joint Co-ordinator for Waves 2010. She is also a part of Kala - The Fine Arts Club, with Sketching as her hobby. Completes a task to the best of her ability, hates sitting idle and prefers meeting and interacting with people and being outdoors when fre | Nishant Suri (’07) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : Goa, India
Email : nishant.suri[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Nishant ( or 'Rasta', as he is known on campus) is a fourth yearite at BITS Pilani, Goa pursuing a dual degree in MSc.(hons) Economics and B.E.(hons) Mechanical engineering. In his last 3 years of college, he has consistently managed to do 'everything' else apart from studying. An avid dramatist, he's been an active member of the Dramatics Club, and served as the Sub-Coordinator of the club in his 3rd year. He loves photography and is the co-founder of the Photography club. He's been a part of the organizing team of SPREE (the annual national sports festival of BITS Goa) for the last 3 years. He conceptualized and organized a marathon in campus as part of SPREE 2009 and raise around Rs 1 lakh for HelpAge India and Nirmaan. He was a core member of the Coordination Committee of SPREE in his 3rd year and is currently the 'Chief Advisor' to the CoCo. He's also been a part of the dept. of controlz of Waves, the cultural fest. He's recently finished a 2 month long summer internship at Eko India financial services, a microfinance startup based in Delhi. | Amitabh Mishra (’08) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : Goa, India
Email : ami.mishra[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Currently pursuing M.Sc (Tech) Information Systems at Goa campus, Amitabh is President for CEL,Goa Chapter. He has been co-ordinating the BITSAA CEL initiatives like Summer In a Start-Up for two consecutive years. He is also the Panel Co-ordinator - Corporate for the tech fest QUARK-2011. A founding member of NSEF-Goa,he is extremely interested in Rural entrepreneurship and alternative banking .He was also a part of the Department of Sponsorshp and Marketing at college and is intensely passionate about marketing.He holds a robust opinion on myriad range of issues ranging from mythology, history,politics to the corporate policies and scalable development models. Amitabh is a TATA Jagriti Yatra Fellow 2009 and selected as one of Career Launcher TYCOONS- India's top 32 young leaders | Ishan Vishnoi (’07) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : Goa, India
Email : ishanvishnoi[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Ishan Vishnoi is currently pursuing Computer Science at BITS Pilani K.K.Birla Goa Campus. He has been involved in the cultural festival WAVES for the past three years and was a member of the WAVES Winter 2010 Controls and also the Coordinator of the Department of Creative Works for the same year. He has been a part of Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL- Goa) for the past three years and was the President of the same for the year 2009. Being a part of CEL, he has helped the students of the campus identify the entrepreneurs among them and helped them get access to the various resources needed to start up. He was also the Joint Co-ordinator for EPSILON 2008 – the intra-BITS Business Plan Competition. He has also been a member of the Dramatics Club as well as the Dance Club for the past three years and has performed at various events. Apart from dancing and acting, his hobbies include reading, sketching and playing tennis. But the best times of his college life are the times spent with his friends lazing around the beaches of Goa | Karandeep Singh (’06) - Volunteer, Human Resources
Location : Hyderabad, India
Email : karandb[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Karandeep Singh graduated from BITS, Pilani-Goa Campus in 2010 with a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics and is currently working as an Analyst in Wells Fargo India, Hyderabad. He is the co-founder of Pan-Aroma Foods which aims at revolutionizing the street food culture in India. Karandeep has headed the Department of Sponsorship & Marketing as Joint Festival Coordinator (2009). He was also a part of the BITSAA Executive team, served as Head of Accessories & Out-Station Relations, and the Chief of Melange (Yearbook for the batch of 2005). He is passionate about entrepreneurship and sustainable development. He is associated with Zameen Organic Pvt. Ltd. where he is helping them develop a sustainable business model for commodity trading. He aspires to be a successful entrepreneur and was known during the college days for bargaining and jugaad. Apart from this Karan loves to cook, travel and meet new people | Shivansh Srivastava (’09) - Information Officer, Newsletter
Location : Goa, India
Email : shivansh[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Shivansh Srivastava is currently pursuing B.E.(Hons.) in Electronics & Instrumentation and is in his 2nd year at BITS Pilani-Goa Campus. He is an active member of on-campus public relations team of BITSAA and currently holds the post of Joint Secretary of the On-Campus BITSAA relations team. He has coordinated many workshops, video conferences and on-campus talks. He is also a member of BITS Mozilla -Goa chapter and a member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and is currently studying and researching in the field of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). | Uday Kiran Medisetty (’03) - Manager, BITSAA CEL
Location : N/A
Email : udaykiranm[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Uday Kiran (aka Udki) is currently working in the Autonomic Systems and e-Business platforms group in Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. He has previously developed innovative software solutions and applications during his tenure at IBM India Software Labs and INSEAD Business School in France. He is very passionate about entrepreneurship especially in technology, retail and social sector. He graduated from BITS Pilani with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. While at BITS, he was the Senior Vice President of Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, one of the top five entrepreneurship clubs in India and was instrumental in scaling up Conquest, a business plan competition from national to international scale. He is an avid traveler and an amateur guitarist. | Abhijeet Bhalerao (’03) - Manager, BITS2MSPHD
Location : N/A
Email : bhalerao[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Abhijeet Bhalerao aka Bolero is currently pursing his Master's degree in EE from Purdue University. He passed out from BITS-Pilani with a bachelors degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering. At BITS, he was a member of Dept. of Photography, Maharashtra Mandal and a representative of Instrumentation Forum. At present, he is the Moderator for the BITS2MSPHD group. He love music especially classic rock, follows EPL and is a big F1 fan (a Ferrari fanatic!!). | Aqsa Mushtaq (’04) - Team Leader, Communications
Location : Pilani, India
Email : aqsamushtaq[at]bitsaa[dot]org
Well my name sounds confusing to many, but nevertheless they still call me Aqsa! I pursued my Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Mathematics from BITS, Pilani-Pilani Campus. I hail from Srinagar and did my schooling from Presentation Convent School. At BITS, I was a part of the Hindi Drama Club; acted and was part of the production team. I did my PS-2 at HAL, Bangalore. While in Bangalore I worked as a volunteer for BITSAA’s 100 % placement initiative. A voracious reader- my interests vary from Poetry to Literature, Fiction and Economics. A lover of nature- I enjoy capturing it too!! Traveling, listening to music and writing are my other interests. However my most cherished time is all the fun filled moments I spend with my friends and family. |
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