Paras Chopra
Indian, 21, pursuing B.E. at Delhi College of Engineering
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.paraschopra.com |
| Industries: | Biotech, Education, Entertainment, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Languages and Platforms, Marketing, Python, Software Engineering, Web design, Web Development |
| Location: | New Delhi |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Getting press, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company |
| Tags: | creative, engineer, ideas, resourceful, visionary |
FEATURED STARTUP
Kroomsa
Kroomsa
A platform that helps promotes independent music artists, while helping society simultaneously.
- Startup type: Sole Proprietor
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Jeev: An Online Life Sciences Magazine |
| Position: | Founding Member and Managing Editor |
| Time period: | November 2005 - Present |
| Description: | Jeev is an online magazine dedicated to the life sciences community. My job is to manage the
magazine, to edit the articles and to take care of technical aspects of the website. In addition to this, I also write articles for the magazine. |
| Employer: | School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi |
| Position: | Summer Researcher |
| Time period: | May 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Modeling firefly flash synchronization in a group (May, 2007 July
2007) Under guidance of Dr. Ram Ramaswamy, modeled the phenomenon involving synchronization of flashes in a group of fireflies (of a select species). Specifically, implemented Mirollo and Strogatz model, verified it and later expanded it to include spatial considerations. |
| Employer: | National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
| Position: | Research Intern |
| Time period: | December 2006 - January 2007 |
| Description: | A predictive tool
for proteinprotein interactions in a specific protein family (Dec, 2006 Jan, 2007) Working under Dr. Mukund Thattai at National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, developed a web based tool for predicting subclasses of proteins (belonging to a specific protein family) based on its amino acid sequence only. The tool is written in Python and hosted on LINUX. The webserver giving access to the tool will be online soon. |
| Employer: | Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore |
| Position: | Summer Research Fellow |
| Time period: | June 2006 - July 2006 |
| Description: | A quantitative
model for the regulation of the bgl operon in E. coli (Jun, 2006 Jul, 2006) Under guidance of Prof. V. Nanjundiah and Prof. S. Mahadevan in Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics department of IISc, Bangalore, developed a quantitative model (in SBML language) for the regulation of the bgl operon in E. coli. The prestigious summer research fellowship was awarded by the Indian Academy of Sciences. |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Paras Chopra and Andreas Bender. Evolved cellular automata for protein secondary structure prediction imitate the determinants for folding observed in nature. In Silico Biol. 7, 0007 (2006).
Paras Chopra and Akhil Kamma. Engineering Life through Synthetic Biology. In Silico Biol. 6, 0038 (2006). |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (2005-present)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2004=2005) |
| Awards: | Academics
1. Was selected for MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Summer Research Studentship 2007, JNCASR's Summer Research Fellowship 2007 and Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship 2006. 2. Was awarded "Certificate of Merit" from CBSE in the subject of Physics for being among top 0.1% scorers in the senior secondary examinations held across India. 3. Secured rank 456 out of more than 50,000 candidates in the CEE examination. Information Technology 1. Established an IT company named NaramCheez in year 2000, at the age of 13. 2. Was interviewed in an Indian IT magazine M@G.NET. 3. Developed PDFProducer, which was featured in a German magazine called PC WELT and PC Quest’s CD. 4. Got 5 star rating by users at Planet Source Code for my tutorials on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. Biology 1. Awarded second Prize for a technical paper on ‘Genetically modified crops in India’ at Tatva 2005. Business 1. Successfully ran NaramCheez since its inception. 2. Business Plan for BioGeeks won first prize at Bioventures, BioHorizon 2006, IITDelhi. 3. Won first prize for the business plan pitching competition at ASES Singapore Summit 2005 |
Paras' Startups (2)
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Kroomsa
A platform that helps promotes independent music artists, while helping society simultaneously.
Paras' Contacts (8)
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Joshua Bonnain
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Vishwajeet Singh
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