Resume

EDUCATION
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (Expected June 2010)
•   MS, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science (Focus: Human Computer Interface)
•   Teaching Assistant for – CS 147: Intro to HCI, CS 247: Interaction Design Studio
•   GPA: 3.7/4.0

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (May 2007)
•   BS, Electrical Engineering (Minor: Business)
•   GPA: 4.0/4.0, summa cum laude

WORK EXPERIENCE
Zeen Labs, Menlo Park, CA (June 2009 – Sep 2009)
Co-founder of a mobile application startup
•   Recipient of Lightspeed Ventures summer grant ($35k), 4th place in Stanford’s e-Challenge
•   Product design lead – creating applications for communication-on-the-go
•   First application, ZapText, launched on the App Store in Sep 2009; Other prototypes include ZapShot & ubi

Komera, Stanford, CA & Kigali, Rwanda (Mar 2009 – Sep 2009)
Co-founder of a non-profit, focused on improving nutrition in Rwanda
•   Project in collaboration with Project Healthy Children (PHC), non-profit based in Boston
•   Spent 2 weeks in Rwanda doing ethnographic research – met with farmers, hawkers, industrialists, government officials
•   Designed and developed an efficient drum mixer, Komera, which adds micronutrients to Cassava, Rwanda’s staple diet

SDL Capital, Los Altos, CA (June 2007 – June 2008)
Associate, Venture Fund
•   Sourced and evaluated investment opportunities in software, healthcare and green tech sector
•   Performed due diligence on AviaraDx, a diagnostic company recently acquired by bioMérieux
•   Spent 2 months at a portfolio company, Acuity Sparkle, to assist with business development, including setting up company’s first manufacturing plant in Mumbai, India

Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India (June 2006 – Aug 2006)
Analyst Intern, Strategic Global Sourcing (SGS) group
•   Participant in the InStep program that hires only 125 students annually
•   Researched and collated trends, forecasts and opportunities in the delivery and management of network based services

Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, PA (Jan 2005 – May 2005, Aug 2005 – Dec 2005)
Product Design Intern, Commercial Systems
•   Designed and optimized the power supply of EcoSystem ballasts, currently installed in several green buildings, including New York Times tower (NYC)
•   Assisted Product Support team in efficiently troubleshooting problems with product returns

PUBLICATIONS
•   “Comparing isolated word and continuous speech for voice search” (CHI 2010) [PDF]
•   “Radiating sensor selection for distributed beamforming in sensor networks” (MILCOM 2008) [PDF]
•   “Efficacy of data-driven respiration compensation methods in fMRI data” (ISMRM 2006) [PDF]

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
•   Technical skills: MATLAB, Processing, Arduino, Objective C, Photoshop, Max/MSP
•   Interests: Polaroid Photography, World music, Hackathons and Cricket