Mech Junta Info - October 2003


Many thanks to Abhinav Deharia for this great effort !


Amit Partani (Partani) - pursuing PhD in IEOR at UTA..plans to finish his Phd.and take up academia. Yaar.IEOR waise hi bahut painful subject hai. god save the students of Prof Partani. As of now 99% coming to india provided he get's a ticket..plans to visit bombay and banglore both and hyde/chennai too if have time.

Ashish Pipalia (Pips) - plans to have a startup in the tech./Call Center Industry. His stint with CapOne would have given him enough exp to catch with the BPO boom in India (or is it the other way round pips!!). Hats off to the 1st 'Entrepreneur' of iitbmech97.

Ashutosh Pande: Pande is rare to find!!!. He is doing MS in CFD at Purdue and is looking for a job. He got a best TA award (????). Gaggu met him last summers and they went for canoing. He put sand bags in his car to avoid flying off the road on a highway....(pande bhiyya ki jai )

Amit Jain: Bacha is doing phd in mech (solid mech./nanotech) at UCLA. As we know he loves hiking, has his own camping gear and sets off to the nearest mountain whenever possible.

Ashish Jain: Doing PhD in Columbia Business School, Currently In Manhattan NY, Completed MSOR and MSQCF from Gatech in may 2003, Future plans after 3-4 years, Dec Plans not sure, not coming to India for sure.

Ashish Shah : Completing MS at MIT, looking for jobs,december and future plans undecided

Ankit Tripathi : Munni the great is at EACOE banglore, he was in Cincinnati, US last year and might be there again later this year.

Ashish Galav : Galav is at GSSL Pune and doing very good (as he always does).

Ankur P Gupta : He is also doing PhD in IEOR at UTexas Austin. more info needed!!!

Anurag Ganguli : MS in General Engg (control, optimization) at UIUC, plans to do a phD in Elec too. Going to India in December...

Akhil Agrawal : Alloo is at Georgia TEch doing a phd in Mech. Was in IOWA state for an year and then trasfered to Gatech.

Ashish Kohad - doing MBA at IIMC. in his 2nd year currently. might get married as soon as he passes out (?) of IIMC.

Bharat Anand: Bharti bhaiyya Infosys Banglore main hain aur 1 saal ke liye Providence, Rhode Island aaye hain. Last year I met him at the psued Infi campus.

Deepak Meena - worked with BHEL for abt an yr. currrently doing MBA from IIM K...1st yr.

Divi Lohiya - doing MS in Mfg. & Decision Engg. at UTA. Plans to take up a consulting job in IE/SCM. Likely to be in India b/w Dec 26th and Jan 15th./

Gagandeep Singh Bhatia (Gaggu bhaiyya) : doing MS in General Engg (robotics, controls) at UIUC, graduating in December, looking for a job, plan to do a phd in IEOR if doesn't get a job. No India plans yet.

Gaurav Gupta (GG) - working with J Ray McDermott.Dubai. Plans to stay with JRM for at least 1.5-2 years... may consider GMAT next summers. Planing to visit India in Dec. Tentative dates... Landing 11th of Dec. in Delhi...flying back from Mumbai on 3rd of Jan.

Hitesh Attri (Atrri) - MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Poly. Inst. Would look for a job in SCM (thanks to the i2 exp.) or IE related stuff. Plans to visit India, may be from Dec 19 to Jan 19

Hrishikesh Deo (HVD) : doing phd in Mech at MIT, already has some patents and publications, plays underwater soccer (bhaiya paani ke neeche ke khel khelte hain). Don't know about his India plans. Shah, pls tell us more.

Kumar Saurabh - working with Sapient Corp. at Gurgaon. Future plans seem to be unplanned as of now. doing very well...both in the UK and India.

Lal Bahadur Verma (LB) - working with CashTech, a financial s/w company, at Bombay. Currently in Tokyo...since last two months. probably be back in India shortly.

Monica Awasthi: She is completing her MS in Applied Mechanics (Biomedical applications) from UIUC and also looking for a job. No India plans for December yet.

Mukesh Verma - working with Sapient Corp. at Gurgaon.furture plans include job or could be further studies - very undecided (may be marriage too :-))

Nihar Shah - PhD in Mech. Engg. at UC at Berkeley. Plans to take up a Consultancy job in the future.

Nishant Mishra (Nimmo) - "tauba yeh matwali chaal". Guys, Nimmo is pursuing PhD in Decision Sciences at the London Business School. He did his MS in OR at SUNY Buffallo. In the future we might see Prof. Mishra in one of the reputed univ/institute of the globe. No plan to visit India.

Nitin Goel (nikdu) - pursuing PhD at Univ of Florida, Florida. would finish his PhD ASAP and do a job subsequently. No plans to visit India in Dec.

Piyush Agarwal: Piyush is doing MS in mech at Minnesota.

Puneet Sharma (punni) - MS in General Engg. (Control Systems) at UIUC, Champaign (Illionois). Plans to take up a job or go for a PhD, to be decided only after Nov. No plans to visit India in Dec.

Rahul Culas - working with Goldman Sachs & Co. (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Division) at New York. Plans to land up at a Business School....eventually!

Shaunak Roy - working with KPMG in the Business Advisory Services Division at Chennai. Future plans are not yet decided.

Shounak Joshi : Doing phd in Aero at Gatech, did MS at Arizona.

Sumit Bahukhandi: Bahukhandi left US Richmond and has gone to London office of Capone.

Sunil Sinha - working with GSSL, in city of Pune, the Oxford of the East!!.no future plans.

Sushant Datta (Daddu) - pursuing MS/PhD at Rice Univ.Houston. Plans to work in India in the future.India is waiting for the guys like u daddu. Your notes have not only helped half the class get passing grades.but have also given a lot of business to the Xerox shops in Insti.

Umesh Goel: Umesh is at GSSL Pune and doing good.

Vijay Desai (Desai) - working with The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific at Singapore. No plans to visit India.

Vipin Tyagi- "Desags" is at TAMU and doing PhD in MEch. He has a stud car in which he roams around with stud babes (Tyagi kindly elaborate!!).

Vishwadeep: Vishy is at GSSL Pune and doing good.

Zafeer Alam - working with J. Ray McDermott, Dubai, UAE. wants to do MBA but has zilch enthu to study!!! certainly coming to India in Dec'03.