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Vitaẻ
Personal Information
| Name: | Mayank Jha | 
| Father’s
  Name: | Mr.
  Manoj Jha | 
| Date
  of Birth: |  | 
| Gender: | Male | 
| Languages
  known: | English,
  Hindi, Gujarati | 
| Academic
  Status: | 3rd
  Year, Chemical Engineering, IIT  | 
| Present
  Address: | Hostel
  5, Room No 265, IIT
   Mumbai
  – 400076 | 
| Permanent
  Address: | Jha Sadan,  Near
  Lily Talkies, | 
| Email
  Address: |  | 
| Homepage: | 
Education
| Year | Institution | Examination/Discipline | Score | 
| 2004 | Indian
   | 2nd
  Year, Chemical Engineering | 8.09/10.00 | 
| 2002 |  | CBSE
  XII (AISSCE) | 90.6% (94.3%
  PCM) | 
| 2000 |  | CBSE
  X (AISSE) | 86.8% (96.5%
  PCM) | 
Academic Achievements
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Cleared IIT-JEE 2002 with an All India Rank of 966 amongst over 150,000
applicants.
·       
Awarded Certificate of Merit
by CBSE for standing amongst top 0.1% of successful candidates in 2 subjects
(Physics and Computer Science) in AISSCE.
·       
Awarded the National Talent
Search Scholarship by the Government of 
·       
Was awarded the Best All-rounder
of Madhya Pradesh in Class XI by The Hindustan Times.
Olympiads
·       
Won Gold Medal at the 6th
International Astronomy Olympiad held in Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, 
·       
Won Gold Medal at the
National Physics Olympiad 2001 and attended the International Physics Olympiad
Training Camp at HBCSE, Mumbai.
·       
Won Gold Medal at the 4th
International Astronomy Olympiad held in Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, 
·       
Won Silver Medal at the 5th
International Astronomy Olympiad held in Special Astrophysical Observatory, 
·       
This has been the best performance ever by an Indian at the
International Olympiads (2 Golds and 1 Silver).
·       
Have been invited to give lectures at the International Astronomy Olympiad selection-cum-training camp for 3
consecutive years (2002-04). The Indian Team of 2003 was the winner at
International Astronomy Olympiad held at 
Extra-Curricular Activities
and Achievements
·       
Lead Guitarist in our band. Guitar player
for my Hostel for all the Inter Hall events. Awarded Special Mention for the
contribution to Hostel Activities.
·       
Won 3rd prize in
Western Vocals at ‘Chaos 2004’, IIM Ahmedabad.
·       
Delivered a lecture on ‘The Big Family’ (Our Solar System) in IIT
Bombay, 2002.
·       
Selected as the National Semifinalist in the Red Rover Goes to Mars Student Navigator Competition organized by
the Planetary Society, 
·       
Reached the Quarter Finals of Bournvita Quiz
Contest 1998.
·       
Represented school in various city and state level quizzes on General
Knowledge, Science, Astronomy, Philately, Archaeology
and won several prizes.
Projects
·       
Course Project - Calculation of Dew
Temperature of a system using Virial Equations and
the UNIFAC Liquid phase model.
·       
Graph Plotter - Made a Graph Plotter in Fortran which can plot graphs and apply mathematical
transformations on it.
·       
Magnetic Levitation – Project done at Regional Research Laboratory, 
·       
Total Solar Eclipse 1999 – Calculated durations and
other technical details. Went with a team of Scientists to Surendranagar,
·       
Seminar Project – Currently working on
Network Analysis in Metabolic Pathways under Prof. K.V.Venkatesh,
Dept. of Chem Engg, IIT Bombay.
Offices Held
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Project coordinator in the Astronomy Club
Telescope project at IIT Bombay.
·       
Was a Student Facilitator at
the National Astronomy Olympiad selection-cum-training camp for the years 2002-04.
·       
Was the School Captain of 
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Worked as an organizer for Workshops at Techfest
2003.
Systems Experience
·       
Operating systems: DOS, Windows 3.1/95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP, Unix, Linux,
Solaris
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Languages: C++, Visual Basic, Oracle, Fortran, BASIC, HTML