Institute: Carnegie Mellon University

Gunjan Dhanuka

Gunjan Dhanuka earned his B.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2024 and is heading to pursue an MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Under his undergraduation, he distinguished himself with research internships at the University of New South Wales and Carnegie Mellon University. At UNSW, he worked on Gunjan Dhanuka

Daksh Adhar

Daksh Adhar is a B.Tech graduate in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, currently working as a Research Intern at the Biomimetic Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (BRAIL) at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and is heading to Carnegie Mellon University to complete his MS in Robotic Systems Development. He has co-authored Daksh Adhar

Yash Gupta

Yash is currently working as a Research Developer at Headlands Technologies. He recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters in Machine Learning (MSML) where the department’s strong research culture allowed him to explore Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) domains in depth. He earlier completed his B.Tech Computer Science with an AI Yash Gupta

Viekash Vinoth Kumar

Viekash is currently pursuing Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics Institute – His unwavering commitment to solving complex real-world Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered automation challenges, coupled with a strong desire to democratize affordable and accessible technology, drives career aspirations in his speciality upon graduation in May 2024. Given his strong academic background, prestigious Viekash Vinoth Kumar

Suvrat Chakradeo

A CFA Charter holder, Suvrat was awarded the Narotam Sekhsaria Scholarship in the year 2005 for pursuing his Masters’ in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 2007, Suvrat joined Citadel Investment Group in Chicago as a Quantitative Developer. He completed his MBA in Analytic Finance, Econometrics & Statistics, Managerial and Organizational Behavior Suvrat Chakradeo

Aditya Kulkarni

After a BE in Electronics & Telecommunication from VIT, University of Pune, Aditya obtained his Masters’ degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. Having worked at Yahoo!, WalmartLabs, LinkedIn, Rubrik and Apple, Aditya currently works at Airbnb in the Data Infrastructure area. Outside work, he enjoys theatre and works with several theatre Aditya Kulkarni

Niranjini Rajagopal

Niranjini was awarded the scholarship to pursue MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She got her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors’ degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Trichy, India. Her expertise is in the area of networked embedded sensing technologies. During Niranjini Rajagopal

Arnold Paul Pereira

Arnold Paul Pereira

Arnold has completed his Masters’ in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, he is working as Engineering Manager at META on building a scalable and privacy aware machine learning platform. The platform supports keeping the platform safe and secure in addition to the business critical use cases. In the past, he worked Arnold Paul Pereira

Alok Kothari

Alok completed his dual degree in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He followed that with Masters’ program in Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. On completion of his course, he worked at Apple Siri for nearly 3 years. He then co-founded Harmony, a blockchain company Alok Kothari

Sonali Deshpande

Sonali graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 with a Master’s degree in Robotic Systems Development. Since then she’s worked on self-driving cars with General Motors, adorable home robots with Mayfield Robotics and is currently working as Senior Navigation Engineer at Relay Robotics in San Francisco. She loves to read, dance and watch animated movies.

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

Jay Shah

Jay obtained his Bachelors’ degree in Chemical Engineering from ICT Mumbai and completed his Masters’ degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017. He is currently based in New York and working as a software engineer in the financial services industry. Previously, he had a 3-year stint at Aspen Technology in Houston, Texas where he worked Jay Shah

Kedar Dabhadkar

Kedar is currently working as Data Scientist with Lam Research in Portland. Kedar earned his Bachelor’s degree from ICT, Mumbai, followed by a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Chemical Engineering. During his Master’s thesis project, he collaborated with Air Liquide to forecast the performance of chemical reactors using data-driven methods. In his Kedar Dabhadkar

Divyansh Kaushik

Divyansh Kaushik

Divyansh was awarded the scholarship to Masters in Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, he is Vice President at Beacon Global Strategies. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he focussed on designing reliable artificial intelligence systems that align with human values. In addition Divyansh Kaushik

Barun Patra

Barun Patra

Barun completed his undergraduate studies at IIT Delhi, graduating with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with a departmental specialization in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, and his Master’s in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working at Microsoft as a Senior Applied Scientist. Previously, was a part of the Turing Barun Patra

Ritwick Chaudhry

Ritwick Chaudhry

Ritwick Chaudhry is currently working as an Applied Scientist II at Amazon in Santa Clara, California. He completed his Masters’ in Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University and bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with a degree in B.Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering in 2018. He has earlier worked at Adobe Ritwick Chaudhry

Pratyush Maini

Pratyush Maini

Pratyush is currently pursuing his PhD program in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He completed his B. Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His career goal is to make Machine Learning systems trustworthy to the extent that they can be safely and reliably deployed outside the comfort of research Pratyush Maini

Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan

Manoj Ghuhan is currently working as an Applied scientist at Amazon AWS, USA. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Learning, Question Answering and Federated Learning. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master’s degree in computational data science. He is a B.Tech Computer Science graduate from IIT Guwahati and worked as a Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan