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.