Ankit Gupta
Computer Science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, currently pursuing Master at Stanford. Interested in Mobile, Internet and Affordable solutions for developing nations.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Education, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | C/C++, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | Stanford, CA |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Visas: | USA |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Schools: | Indian Institute of Technology, Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Various |
| Position: | Design Experience |
| Description: | • Founder & Design Lead (2008) – Started a venture with the idea of designing a web-based product to easily host and effectively analyse polls and surveys.
o Designed the website using rapid prototyping and user feedback for most effective design since delivering a clean and streamlined interface was a key aspect of this product. o Product came 2nd in Google Product Prodigy 2008, a product development competition by Google. • Shake Things Up: Course Project - Human Computer Interaction, Autumn, 2008 o Designed and developed an iPhone application for randomly stumbling upon activities around oneself using innovative interaction techniques with the phone. • Teaching Computers to Old People: Course Project - Human Computer Interaction, Spring, 2008 o Designed a method to teach basic usage of computers to old people by minimally competent teachers. Understood specific needs and problems in a user centric design process. |
| Employer: | BMIR, Stanford |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2007 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Research Assistant with professor Daniel Rubin in Content Based Image Recognition for Medical Images. Worked on extracting new and innovative features from medical images to characterize lesions on the liver. |
| Employer: | Geometrica, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France |
| Position: | Internship |
| Time period: | May 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Internship with professor Pierre Alliez on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of Arbitrary objects and Normal Estimation. Worked on developing and implementing new algorithms for performing PCA on arbitrary shapes in CGAL. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2010 |
| Degree: | Masters in Computer Science |
| University: | Indian Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Bachelors in Computer Science |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Principal Component Analysis in CGAL – Ankit Gupta, Pierre Alliez and Sylvan Pion. Tech. Report, 2008 |
| Papers: | A Decision Theoretic Planner with Dynamic Component Reconfiguration for Distributed Real-Time Applications - John S. Kinnebrew, Ankit Gupta, Nishanth Shankaran, Gautam Biswas, Douglas C. Schmidt, published in the 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2007. |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Hiking, Biking, Squash |
| Hobbies: | Playing and Composing songs, playing with Photoshop and Reading. |
| Awards: | • All India Rank 3 (out of 200,000 students) in Joint Entrance Exam, 2004 for entrance into the Indian Institutes of Technology.
• All India Rank 47 (out of 500,000 students) in All India Engineering Entrance Examination, 2004. • Prestigious Aditya Birla Scholarship holder from 2004 - 2008 awarded to 11 students all over India. • Among top 50 students in the Indian National Physics Olympiad, 2004. |
Ankit's Startups (3)
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Brownie Points For Charity
Brownie Points helps use the power of social networks to raise money for charities and creates a new paradigm for volunteer work
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Polls
Allow users all across the world to create polls and surveys, host them on their web pages, send their friends invites to answers them and analyze them thoroughly.
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GoStart
Empower Indian youth towards starting companies and thus engender a compelling, exciting and healthy entrepreneurial culture in India.
Ankit's Contacts (1)
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Jackie Lho
Project Assistant at WilmerHale LLP. Korean, who mostly grew up in the States, B.A. in Economics and minor in Chinese from Stanford University. Interested in law, media, and loves to travel