Gagandeep Bhatia

1616 Hinman Ave Apt 2C, Evanston, IL 60201

Email:gbhatia@uiuc.edu

Telephone – (217) 721 5298

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Master of Science in General Engineering (Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering), Dec ’03

Major GPA: 3.89/4.0

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, May ’01

Major GPA: 8.50/10.00, Overall GPA: 8.00/10.00

Professional Experience

§ Research Assistant, (Jun 2002-Present), Decision and Controls Group, University of Illinois.

- Awarded assistantship under grant by the National Science Foundation, USA, research will help build better prosthetic legs and robots, applied by companies like Honda, Sony, Sarcas, iRobotics, etc.

§ Teaching Assistant, (Aug 2001-May 2002), University of Illinois.

- Held discussion groups for a class of 130 students and helped the instructor with course preparation.

§ Summer Internship, (May-Jul, 2000), Daewoo Motors, India.

- Worked together with the quality control team to collect and analyze quality data using statistical tools in Excel, suggested improvements to increase the quality ratios defined for the automobile assembly line.

§ Management Consultant, (Nov 2002-May 2003), OSBI (consulting organization at the University of Illinois serving Fortune 500 companies like IBM, GE, Whirlpool, etc.)

Publications

§ To be presented at IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas.

- Attended by researchers from around the world and companies like Honda, Sony, iRobot, etc.

Interests -Traveling, reading, cross-country racing, basketball.