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Amrita Sudheedran,
after passing out from BITS in 1998, she worked with IBM
India in Pune and Bangalore for two and a half years and
shifted to Sun Microsystems where she worked till Jan 2002.
She got married in December 2001 to her BITsian sweetheart
Samonnoi Banerjee after 7 years of courting !! She is now
settled in Mumbai with Samonnoi and both work at Accenture,
Sam with consulting and she with their IT center. She has
been taking lessons on the keyboard during the last year.
Divya Muralidhar (Dimu,
Freshie) completed her Masters in EE from the University
of Hawaii-Manoa. She has been working as a Research Engineer
at Motorola's Arlington Heights facility since October 2000.
Apart from work she goes for kathak and keyboard classes.
Soumya Krishnamoorthy
graduated with a masters in EE from the University of
Maryland,College Park in 2001 and has since been working as
an analog design engineer at Applied Micro Circuits Corp (AMCC)
in Andover, MA. She enjoys the Boston area and tries to keep
active with sports related, cultural and volunteer groups in
Boston.'
Meenakshi Nagarajan (Chikku),
after a 2 year stint with Infosys, Bangalore, she did her MS
in Management Information System from UIC. She is working
with a marketing and sales-force consulting firm, ZS
Associates based in Chicago.
Subha Chandrasekaran,
after graduating from BITS, went on to XLRI to complete her
MBA. Joined CitiBank and right now she is busy Corporate
Banking and juggling exports and imports for her customers.
Met the man of her dreams in XLRI , Vinay Krishnan and now
she is happily married and settled in Bangalore.
Deepa Poduval
completed her Masters in from Dartmouth, New Hampshire. She
is working with Lukens Energy Group. She is married to
Rajesh of the 89 batch and they are based in Houston.
Satish Ramanathan (rsat)
: After finishing his Masters in Oklahoma state, he is
working for Mainsoft in San Jose. r_sat@hotmail.com
Subramanian Hariharan (hsubs)
: Completed his Masters in Oklahoma state and is currently
working for Bloomberg, New York. Subbu77@yahoo.com
Naveen Prabhakar (napra)
: Did his Masters in North Carolina and is currently
working for Bloomberg, New York.
Sushil Chetal (kalli):
Has been employed with Citibank and working in New York
City. He got married recently.
Visveish Ramanathan (kopine):
Currently working for CTS (Cognizant) based in Madras, but
almost permanently in the US. visveish@yahoo.com
Hari Natarajan (hari):
Did his Masters in Texas A&M, and after a brief stint in a
startup company, is working for i2 technologies in Dallas.
Deepak A Kariyakar (kodi):
Is working as a consultant in i2 technologies (Dallas) after
his Industrial engineering masters at PennState. deepbitz@yahoo.com
Janarthanan Venkataraman
(koja): After his Masters in Texas A&M, he got
employed in Siemens, Orlando. One of the very few that is
loyal to his undergrad discipline. His is married to Vidya
of the same batch. Jana_venkat@yahoo.com
Arun Subramanian (jan):
Did his MBA, specializing in Finance, from FMS, Delhi. He is
married to Aparna of the 95 batch and is a proud father of a
daughter, Aditi .He is currently working for Household Bank
at Portland. arun163@yahoo.com
Abu Sebastian (Booze).
Pursuing PhD (ECE) at Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA. abuseb@iastate.edu
Arunvijay Kumar (Anil).
He works for Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA. arunvijayk@yahoo.com
Ashwin Menon (Ashwin).
He works for Wipro, Bangalore, India. ashwin_menon329@yahoo.com
Nandagopal Kribanandhan
(Nandu). Graduated in MS(CSE) from Penn State Univ, PA
He works for Motorola Corp, Phoenix, AZ. knandu_rm@yahoo.com
Balaji Rangaswamy (Krab).
Graduated in MS(CS) from SUNY Binghamton, NY. He works for
Bloomberg L.P, New York, NY . kr_balaji326@hotmail.com
Prashanth Mohan (Pondy).
He works for Infosys, Bangalore. prashant_mohan@yahoo.com
Raghunath RN (Rags).
He works for Infosys, Bangalore. madrags321@yahoo.com
Lakshmi Kumar(Lux).
Graduated in MS (ECE) Iowa State Univ, Ames. He is working
for Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX. plkumar@iastate.edu
Anand Lakshmanan (Lana).
Graduate in MS (CSE) from SUNY Buffalo . He is currently
working for Intel Corp, Santa Clara, CA. mail_to_lana@yahoo.com
Sridhar Nagarajan (Oona).
Graduated in MS(IE) from SUNY Binghamton, NY. He is
currently working for Sanmina Corp, San Jose, CA.
Srinivasan Venugopalan (Chinu).
Pursuing MS (IE) from Univ of Texas, Arlington.
srinivasan_venug@yahoo.com
Anush Sundar (Ganush).
Graduated in MS(IE) from Virgina Tech, VA. He is currently
working for Qualcomm Corp, San Diego, CA. anush_sundar@yahoo.com
Samir Agarwal : is a
software professional at TCS, Calcutta. Presently he is in
Washington DC, USA on an assignment. He is married to his
school sweetheart and is happily settled in Calcutta.
Anirudha Patil: is a
consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Munich,
Germany. He completed his MBA from IIM-A. He had a short
stint with Reliance Industries after graduating from BITS.
Akshay Anand: is
working as a Business Analyst in a Financial Services
company in Manhattan, NY. He has completed his MBA from
University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne.
Vaibhav Kumar: is
working with HLL in Bangalore, India as a brand manager of
Lipton. After graduating from BITS, he completed his MBA
from IIM -A and joined HLL.
Gururaj Choudari: is
working in TCS as a software professional in Delhi. He was
one of the few in our batch whom we had thought would never
end up in software. However he is happily settled with his
wife, Usha in Delhi.
Nalin Dave: This guy
is working at Infosys Technologies. He has spent a lot of
time in Japan in the last few years on assignments from
Infosys. Presently he is back in India and is located at
Bangalore.
Rubal Sher: is based
in Bangalore, working for Velanki Software Systems. Before
this he was working in Wipro Systems and made a few trips to
US on assignments.
Nishant Banthia: is
a management consultant at Tata Strategic Management group (TSMG),
Mumbai. After passing out of BITS he also had a short stint
at Reliance Industries before joining IIM, Lucknow. He is
currently on an assignment at Mithapur, Gujarat and is
actively searching for a life partner.
Chetan Unadkat: is a
consultant with Accenture and is situated in Mumbai, India.
After BITS, he had a short stay at Pune with Geometric
Software before taking up his MBA at XLRI.
Hardik Chokshi: is a
budding business consultant with TCS after completing his
MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Before
taking up his MBA he was working with Wipro Systems for 3
years. He is getting married in late Feb '03 to his
sweetheart, Padmaja, whom he found 3 years ago at WIPRO.
Abhishek Duggal: is
working at Agere Systems, a spin-off from Lucent
Technologies as a VLSI designer. He completed his Masters in
Analog VLSI design from Texas A&M University and is
presently based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Recently he has
enrolled at Stern Management School in University of New
York and is working towards an MBA degree.
N. Mahesh: is in
Norway working for Citicorp. He has also started his own
rock band along with few other BITSians and they have
recorded a number of songs.
Krishna Mamidipaka:
is employed by IBM as a consultant in their Supply Chain
Management group. Presently he is based in Detroit, working
on a project for Chrysler Corporation. He completed his
Masters in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Nishant Saini: is
working as an Applications Engineer at Third Wave
Technologies in Detroit. He was at Delphi Systems for more
than a year before switching job responsibilities and is now
making sales pitches for his company, which makes software
for machining operations. He completed his M.S. in
Manufacturing Systems Engineering from University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
Vikas Chandra: Who
could have imagined that our "Chandra babu" would be an
academician. However, after working for 2 years at ST
Electronics, Noida, he decided to pursue a Master's in
Electronics Engineering specializing in VLSI design at
Carnegie Melon University (CMU), USA. He was so impressed
with this field that he has decided to pursue his PHd in the
same field from CMU.
Harikrishna (Uppit)
is employed with TI, Bangalore
Vanjeeswaran (Vanjee)
is employed with Intelligroup, Hyderabad. Has visited
the East-coast US quite a few times for offshore projects.
vanjeeswaran@hotmail.com
Archana Ramani : She
joined Infosys, Bangalore after BITS. At present she is
pursuing Masters at San Jose State University. She is
married to Balaji, an IITian working at Applied Materials,
Santa Clara, CA. She still pursues her interest in Carnatic
music and has given performances in the Bayarea.
Shivkumar Swaminathan (Shivku):
He completed his MS(EE) from Duke. He is currently working
with IBM in Raliegh.
Badrinarayanan
Venkatanarayanan (Badri): Did his Masters in UCincinnati,
and
is working for Novellus as a Process Development Engineer.
He lives with his wife in Portland.
Arunkumar Subramanian
(Screw): Did his Masters in UMinn, this A4A3 is
currently in a research position in Honeywell. sarunramuk@yahoo.com
Kumaragovindan
Santhanakrishnan (Paayal): After graduating from BITS in
Dec 98, he landed in an MS program in Control Systems at the
University of Minnesota. His research was on Adaptive Cruise
Control Technology. After much thought he decided to pursue
a PhD at the same university graduating to more exotic
research on swimming machines and Oscillating foil
propulsion. Plays badminton and is learning piano to have a
life outside of the labs. Hoping to get into some hot
position in the Indian aerospace program after PhD. Still
thinks Pilani days were the best ever in his life.
T V Ram is currently
employed with Deutsche Bank in London. Obtained an MBA from
IIM Bangalore.
ramtv@hotmail.com
Swaminathan (Pondi)
Lives in Chennai and has worked for various companies in
management position like Godrej & Zenith Computers. He
intends to pursue an MBA in one of the IIMs in the near
future. sweatingbullets@rediffmail.com
Ramanathan Sundaram (Ramna):
After graduating in 1998, he worked with Infosys
Technologies Limited at Mangalore, for about 2.5 years.
Later in 2001, he moved to Boston (after a brief stint at
Philadelphia) and joined Oracle Corporation, where he
currently works. He is also concurrently pursuing his M.S.
in Computer Science at Northeastern University. If he is not
at work or in school, he loves to drive around New England
in his BMW. You can reach him at
sramanathan13@yahoo.com / (781)-962-3957
Mahadevan (Maha): He
joined i-Flex Solutions Ltd. Bangalore upon graduation and
has been with them since then. After implementing i-flex
products in exotic countries like South Africa, Cyprus,
Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Tanzania, Botswana, China,
Indonesia, he is currently doing a project in Singapore.
Chandhan Rangarajan
(Chandan): He travelled east against the tide and realized
how japanese-english bilingual skills, more than the A1A6,
can serve as a differentiator and propels ones career and
insulates against tough times. A bilingual techno-functional
working in Tokyo since June 2000. Currently working as a SAP
consultant in Intelligroup, Japan. He is also actively
pursuing western classical violin and realized beyond any
doubt that indian classical is the best (Ragamalika!!!).
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Swaraj Thampi (thampi):
Joined Infosys, Chennai in June 1998, mainly because none of
the B-schools he interviewed with found him fit enough just
then. Went to do his Post-Graduation in Management with
specialisation in Finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Joined
Citibank, Mumbai in their Treasury Operations department in
Apr, 2001. 5-6 guys of the 1994A4 batch met up at Sanjay
Motwani's place sometime during the summer of 2002. It was
such a wonderful evening talking on and on about BITS and
longs for more such evenings. swarajthampi@yahoo.com
Reshmi Banerjee,
after BITS she joined Intelligroup , Hyd. Worked there for 2
years and then moved to Satyam , Madras. She came to the US
in May 2001. She got married in July 2002 to Satish her long
time beau also a BITSian of the same batch. Right now she is
in Sunnyvale working as a SAP consultant with Satyam.
Arunkumar (Dara): He
is with Nexgen, Mumbai, the company he joined after BITS. He
is a frequent traveler to US and is considered a guru at his
place of work. dara_in@yahoo.com
Rajiv Rangan (Saki):
He completed Mech in BITS and worked with Voltas (Sales
Engineer for 1 year) and Cybernet Software Systems (Business
Development/Pre Sales Manager - USA 2.5 Years).Was in New
York for around 6 months. Currently working with Sonata
Software Ltd Bangalore in their International Marketing
Group :
rajivrangan@indiatimes.com
Venkateshwaran (Jura):
He completed ME (Software Systems) from BITS. He joined
Answer Pal, Bangalore a company led by KRVS. He is currently
with Tavant Technologies, Bangalore. Stud_jura@yahoo.com
G. Manikandan: He
completed ME (Software Systems) from BITS. He was the
cynosure of all girl students during his TA days in BITS. He
joined Answer Pal, Bangalore. He is currently in New Jersey
managing projects for his company. Gmak169@yahoo.com
Bhaskar (baski): He
joined Telco after BITS. Moved on to Infosys, Bangalore. He
was in UK for more than a year on assignments. He is back in
Bangalore again. rbhsk@yahoo.com
Johnson (Johnny): He
joined TELCO after BITS. Currently with Infosys, Chennai.
LakshmiNarayanan K G.
He joined Whirlpool after BITS. Moved on to Infosys,
Chennai. He is currently doing his MBA in IIM (K) and has
been placed with Patni Computer Systems, Mumbai. kgln01@yahoo.com
P S Venkatesh: He
joined TELCO, Pune after BITS. He is currently doing his MBA
in IIM(k) and will be joining Asian Paints in their
marketing division. ps_venkatesh@hotmail.com
Arun Balagopal( Bumba).
He joined TELCO, Jamshedpur after BITS. He moved on to
Deutsche Bank IT division, Bangalore. He is currently in
Germany working as a consultant for Deutsche Bank.
Anand Gridhar (Angie) :
He did his MBA from IIM, Lucknow. He is working with
Accenture, Mumbai. He is married to Tripura also from BITS
from the same batch.
Tripura: She is
working with Orbitech. She is married to Anand Gridhar and
is based in Mumbai.
Jayendra (manja)
after bits he worked in Nexgen, Mumbai making numerous trips
to USA . He joined Wipro in July 2002 and after a brief
stint in Wipro joined Deloitte Consulting , Mumbai. He is
getting married in Aug 2003. a4ps203@yahoo.com
Meera: She is
working at Iflex Solutions, Bangalore. She has traveled a
lot on her assignments including exotic places like Ghana.
She is married to Sanjay, who also works at Iflex Solutions,
Bangalore.
Suresh Balasubramanian
(Bus) - Graduated with a MS(IE) from SUNY, Binghamton,
NY. He is currently working with Sanmina Corp. San Jose, CA.
Married Anupama Shivaprasad (94-99). She works for Mathworks
Boston, MA. suresh_balas@hotmail.com
Shanmuganathan
Gnanasambandham (Mug) – Graduated in MS(IE)& MS(CS) SUNY
Binghamton, NY. He is currently pursuing PhD(CS/IE) Penn
State Univ, PA. Engaged to Priya Sundarajan , 95-99 REC
Trichy working in Xilinx, Santa Clara, CA g_shan@mailcity.com
Mahesh Kumar Jain (Maja)
- He is working with Lucent Technologies, Long Island,
NY. He is married to Kavitha( 94-98) who also works for
Lucent Tech, Long Island, NY. M
maheshkj@lycos.com
Karthik Hosnagar (HK).
Pursuing PhD at CMU. Engaged to Prasanna Krishnan(96-00).
She works for Microsoft Corp.
doit244@yahoo.com
Ameet Bagwe: He is
working in Texas Instruments, Bangalore. Has a band in TI
and is the lead guitarist. He married Deepa of 94 batch.
Sujai Kumar: He for
one does not know what he is going to do or is doing at the
moment. Is on a fellowship in UIUC in educational psychology
and specializing in cognitive development.
Rahul Bhagwat: After
getting done with IIM-A, he is with Chase in New York
marketing credit cards. Actually, he reprices interest
rates, so be good to him.
Prabhat Garg: He is
THE software GURU at Amsoft in Delhi. Also doing some
free-lancing business on the side.
Nishikanth Gaddam :
Did his Masters from Iowa State University and works for
Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco. He lives in San
Jose with his wife Praveena who happens to be his batchmate
at BITS. She is working for a company called Apexon in San
Jose.
Regunathan Radhakrishnan
(Kulls), kulse@yahoo.com, 94B2A3483 After graduating
from BITS, he worked for a year at SAS, Bangalore as a DSP
Software Engineer. Then, he joined Polytechnic University,
NY for graduate studies where he is currently pursuing his
PhD. He feels that no day has come close to those fun days
that he had with his wingies(Ummachis) and friends in
Pilani. He still cherishes those funfilled moments
Prasanna Kannan, (koprai)
koprai@yahoo.com, 94B2A3642 After his MS in Electrical
Engineering from Boston university, Prasanna took up a
Research Engineer postion at Arraycomm, a wireless
technology startup in San Jose. He is a member of an amateur
tamil theatre club in the bay area. His current interests
include theatre, hiking, motorcycling, painting and if time
permits wireless protocols research
Pradeep GanapathyRaj, (kupi),
iamkuupi@yahoo.com, 94B2A3 Playing all roles from leaf
engineer to CTO in various companies (ranging from IBM to
less known busted dotcoms), kupi is currently a program
manager at microsoft. A key figure in seattle tamil mandram,
kupi manages to win fans with his acting skills in both
US(Seattle) and Canada(Vancouver)
Sridhar Visvanath, (Caco),
sridharvisu76@yahoo.com After BITS, joined Netacross ,
Delhi which got merged with a singapore entity and became
Intiqua, Singapore. Left for MS in Industrial Engg in SUNY
Binghamton, did not like the subject, hence came back to
Intiqua Singapore after a brief summer of 2000 in
Binghamton. After a few trips to USA, got transferred to
Singapore (period of stay: Oct 2001 to May 2002). Got
transferred back to Intiqua, Delhi in May 2002. Left Intiqua
and joined Infosys Bangalore on 16th July 2002, left Infy on
04 Feb 2003. Joining Cognizant Technologies Solutions (CTS)
, chennai on 07 Feb 2003. So it is sort of a jolly ride, a
circuitous route from Pilani to Chennai.
Manigandan Radhakrishnan,
(KKM), manigandan_ar@hotmail.com,1994B2A3566
Currently pursuing PhD in computer science.
Arun Srinivasan, (sarun),
Srinivasan_arun@rediffmail.com Landed up at Wipro
straight after campus and been here in Bangalore ever since.
Having fun at work, traveling around karnataka and watching
single batchmates falling like dominos into marital bliss.
R. Rahul, Goli, (Owl), rahul_raman@hotmail.com,
94B1A3 Currently in the 4th year of Ph.D. program in
Bioengineering at MIT. Hoping to finish soon and seek
opportunities in the area of bioengineering applied to drug
discovery. He loves the Boston area despite the harsh New
England winters.
Rajaram Sethuraman, (kotram),
rajaramsethuraman@rediffmail.com, 94B2A3564 Working for
Amdocs, Cyprus. Probably his tenth job after graduating from
BITS. Kotram is married. He loves cricket and the
mediterranean. Don't be surprised if Cyprus participates in
the next world cup cricket series with kotram as its
captain.
Arthi Nagarajan (Nag), arthinag@hotmail.com
She works as a Consultant at i2 Technologies. She is married
to Ram Srinivasan alias Ramba (92 batch) and lives in
Dallas.
Indu A. Menon (Dal)
She is doing doing M.S. Clinical Investigation and also
working as a
Pharmacy Intern, New England Med.Center, Boston, MA. She is
married to Manoj Menon.
Preethy Padmanabhan
(formerly Preethy R) (Gobo) preepadu@yahoo.com
Works as a Consultant at Cisco Systems. Married to
Padmanabhan alias Padu (92C6) She was a member of Backstage
for tamil play "Kaasu Mela Kaasu" by Naatak. Her interests
include Carnatic Vocal, Yoga (Art of living)
Radhika Nori (Nori)
the innocent (as she claims) works as a Software Developer
at Synygy Inc. She is married to Srinivas U and she stays in
Philadelphia.
Email - noriradhika@yahoo.com
Sangeetha Shekar. (Sangi)
works as Software Developer & Test Engineer at Microsoft
Corporation, Seattle. To be married soon to her college
sweet heart Prashanth
sangeethashekar@hotmail.com
Lalitha Krishnan (Lallluuu)
is pursuing Masters in SCU. Also working at Pillar Data
Systems which is a storage startup. She is married to Raja
Rangarajan alias Khuja (Bits 92 Batch)
Email - lalkrish@hotmail.com
Ramya Sundararaman
(Rums) works in Infosys Technologies Ltd, Chennai. She
is married to Suresh of the 89 batchramya_sundar@hotmail.com
Charumathy (Charu)
works in Infosys Technologies Ltd., Chennai vmcharumathy@hotmail.com
Rajeev Ramanath (Rara)
is pursuing his PhD at NCSU in Image Processing. rramana@eos.ncsu.edu
Rahul Ponniah (JolP)
After finishing his masters at University of Florida, he
decided to go ahead and lose his ‘bachelors’ ;-) He’s
currently employed at Motorola & settled at Plantation,
Florida. rahul_ponniah@hotmail.com
Naren Mohan wrapped
up his Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University
of Texas at Arlington and is currently employed at Ericsson,
Dallas. m_naren@hotmail.com
Santosh Gopalan (Santy)
wrapped up a Masters in wireless communications from SUNY at
Buffalo and is currently employed at a closely held wireless
broadband firm in San Jose.san_gop@hotmail.com
Anand Venkatachalam (Pi)
after acquiring a few years of work experience through
ABB in India, he went for a Masters Degree in Electrical
Engineering from University of Utah. He’s currently employed
at Stryker Endoscopy in the Bay area. pi22by7@yahoo.com
SaiVivek T (Sai)
took the software path and after a couple of years in TCS,
moved over to Verizon in Maryland. He’s also currently
pursuing a part-time MBA degree from UMBC. saivivekt@yahoo.com
Prasanna R (Golt)
currently is employed with Daimler-Chrysler in Germany.
Obtained a Masters from University of Ulm, Germany.
rprasanna@lycos.com
Senthil C (Coop) is
currently employed as a software engineer with Verizon in
Maryland coop_cs@yahoo.com
Sundararajan Sowrirajan
(Sundi): He joined the Tata Consultancy Services at
Chennai after graduation and worked with them for two years.
Lack of job satisfaction and a desire to learn more
motivated him to pursue graduate studies. He then moved to
California in 2000 to pursue Masters in Computer Science at
the University of California, Irvine. He is one of the first
members of the newly formed BITSAA Southern California
chapter and is in-charge for Sponz and Finances.(sundie@rocketmail.com)
Manoj Parthasarathy
(DOS): After graduating in 1998, DOS joined LearningByte
at Hyderabad. After a couple of years there, he moved to
their US office, which was bought over by DigitakThink.
Currently he is working with DigitalThink, an e-Learning
company based out of San Francisco as a Solutions Architect.
He would love to get in touch with Bitsians in the bay
area.(pmanoj007@hotmail.com)
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