Batch: 2015

Shefalika

Shefalika completed MSc in Economics (2015-16) from London School of Economics and Political Science and subsequently worked as an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow at the Treasury in Vanuatu (2016-18). She worked as a Senior Analyst at the New Zealand Treasury on macroeconomic and fiscal policy issues (2019-23). She is presently working at the Bank Shefalika

Mehfuz Basar Mollah

Mehfuz specializes in subject matters that involve the interface of law and economics – and its application to policy making. He has a Masters’ degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and a Masters’ degree in law from London School of Economics. His practice involves advising clients on policy and regulatory issues. He is Mehfuz Basar Mollah

Surabhi Talele

Surabhi was awarded the scholarship to pursue MS in Pharmaceutics from the University of Minnesota in 2017. She is currently working as Scientist with Bristol Myers Squibb in New Jersey, USA with the Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics department where she helps guide the first-in-human dose determination for drugs going into clinical trials. She also holds Surabhi Talele

Ankit Prasad

Ankit Prasad

Ankit Prasad is currently a Principal at Norwest Venture Partners, Mumbai. He was previously working with them as a Senior Associate focusing on Growth Equity and Venture Capital investments in India. He completed his MBA from London Business School in 2017 and B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 2010 with a major in Civil Engineering. While Ankit Prasad

Shashank Gowda

Shashank Gowda

Shashank hold’s a Bachelors’ degree in Mechanical Engineering from NITK Surathkal and a Masters’ degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Smart Grid Energy Research Center, UCLA with a focus on electric vehicles and renewable energy as well as their effects on the power Shashank Gowda

Saumya

Saumya has been a social entrepreneur in India for the past 11 years. Saumya is one of the co-founders of Kheyti, an agritech nonprofit helping smallholder farmers in India become climate-resilient through protected farming. She currently leads Program Design and has won various awards such as the CommonBond Social Impact Award, Kellogg Social Entrepreneurship Award Saumya

Sujith Jose

Sujith is the founder and CEO of Nava AI. Nava’s mission is to simplify global immigration by using the latest technologies like Generative AI. Sujith is also the founder of Austin Desi Entrepreneurs, a community of Indian-born entrepreneurs in the Austin, TX area. He has a BTech from NIT Calicut and an MS from UCLA. Sujith Jose

Anish Morakhia

Anish graduated with a Bachelor’s in Electronics & Communication Engineering from NITK, Surathkal, and earned his Master’s in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Analog Circuit Design, from Texas A&M University. He works for NVIDIA in Santa Clara, California where he designs high-speed circuits that interconnect large clusters of GPUs in the datacenter.

Vishnu Prasad

Vishnu Prasad

Vishnu Prasad works with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) on strengthening the housing, land, and property rights of stateless Rohingya communities in Myanmar. He was previously engaged with the Urban Research and Development Institute (URDI) based in Yangon, Myanmar on strengthening municipal capacity in three border towns in Myanmar focusing on a range Vishnu Prasad

Abhilasha Sinha

Abhilasha is currently the Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Open Secret. Previously she was the Chief of Staff at Hike, India. Prior to this, she worked as VP of Strategy and Operations at Elucidata, a Delhi & Cambridge based startup, building an AIenabled platform for the biopharma industry to enhance drug development and as Abhilasha Sinha

Saloni Goel

Saloni Goel

Saloni was awarded the scholarship to pursue MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Saloni is the founder of an AI startup in the workplace productivity space. She is finishing her MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to GSB, she worked as an early and growth stage investor Saloni Goel

Sharanya Subramaniam

Sharanya holds a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, and has worked as a Senior Engineer at the R&D of Bajaj Auto Limited, Pune. She received an MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in computational modeling of highspeed re-entry flows. While at UIUC, she received Sharanya Subramaniam

Gulika Reddy

Gulika Reddy was awarded the scholarship to pursue an LLM from Columbia Law School. She is a prominent human rights advocate and the Director of the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic. She has conducted advocacy work globally, addressing inequality, discrimination, and armed conflict. Reddy’s research interests include critical perspectives on human rights and Gulika Reddy

Karthik Vijayakumar

With a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Trichy, Karthik pursued his Masters’ in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in the field of Motion Planning for autonomous agents. Currently, he is working as Staff Software Engineer at Aurora, California. He will eventually return to India and start a company that uses robotics for health, agriculture Karthik Vijayakumar