BITS2MSPhD and Embryo are excited to announce the newest Know Your University (KYU) panel discussion scheduled on 14th April, 2013 at 10:30 AM IST. The KYU series aims to give students a glimpse of life at top graduate schools across the world. The current panel, which will be third in this series, will focus on three universities in the University of California system – Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego. This follows an earlier panel discussion by graduate students from MIT on 16th February, 2013 and another panel by Harvard and Cornell graduate students on 17th February, 2013.
In our panel, we have:
SATISH POLISETTI (MS, UC Berkeley)
Satish Polisetti currently runs a company that builds technology to enable native advertising for the entire web/mobile world, funded by Sequoia Capital and other prominent angel investors in the Silicon Valley. He graduated with a dual degree in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (A4A3) from the Pilani campus in 2007. Satish’s focus at UC Berkeley was entrepreneurship & product management. He was selected as Mayfield Fund (top VC firm) fellow in 2010. He won Oxford Youth Business Development Competition, UC Berkeley Startup Competition and finalist at Global Social Venture Competition. He served as Vice President to organize the first BITSAA Global Meet in 2011 and was recently recognized with ‘BITSAA 30Under30’ award. Satish interned at Indian Space Research Organization (PS-1), Qualcomm (PS-2) and Cypress USA (PS-2). Satish was selected from Asia-Pacific for Infineon Technologies International Graduate Program and worked in Singapore before joining UC Berkeley to pursue his MS in Information Systems. He won scholarships from Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, KC Mahindra Education Trust in 2009.
GAELEN PEREIRA (MS, UCLA)
Gaelen graduated with an MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2012. His focus at UCLA was on Wireless Communication. Prior to this, he completed his Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Pilani campus in 2010. Gaelen is currently working as a Systems Engineer at Silvus Technologies, a small business focusing on R&D and Product Development in the Wireless industry. He has previously interned with Qualcomm and Bharti Airtel in India.
SIDDHARTHA NATH (Ph.D., UCSD)
Siddhartha is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Computer Science from UC San Diego under supervision of Prof. Andrew B. Kahng. His specialization is in machine learning in CAD, physical reliability and their impacts on computer architecture and Network-on-Chip (NoC) router estimation. His paper on NoC router estimation got nominated for the best paper award in Design Automation Conference-2012. Siddhartha completed his Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics from the Pilani campus in 2003 with a silver medal from his batch. Thereafter, he worked at Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. for seven years on low-power graphics architectures and has six patents on his work on Switchable Graphics, Self Refresh Displays and Dual Display Clone. Siddhartha actively pursues Indian classical music (Hindustani vocal). He regularly performs in different cities across the US and has been training six students over the last few years at UCSD.