Laxman Mohanty did BE (EEE) from 1981-85 and currently he is also pursuing PhD at BITS. His area of interest is resource mobilization strategies of engineering colleges of India. Laxman has been an entrepreneur for last 18 years. Has set up a computer organization, Oricom Systems P Ltd, and an engineering college, Silicon Institute of Technology, in Bhubaneswar. Currently he is working on a social enterprise in education, Future Focus Foundation (3F). 3F aims to set up a network of rural and urban schools with coupling of micro-industries in rural schools.
Laxman’s interests include reading and painting etc.
 

Pushkala Venkatraman ('95) graduated from BITS in 1999 MMS. At BITS, she worked for the English Press Club (EPC) and the Oasis English Press and was active in other organizations like Pilani Tamil Mandram (PTM). After BITS she wrote occasionally for magazines and papers. She has recently completed her Masters in Information Systems and have started working for Telcordia Technologies. She loves to read and reads just about anything she can lay her hands on. Her favorites still remain the good ‘ol comics. She also enjoys listening to Carnatic music and playing the violin. Her latest pastime is Blogging. She also enjoys getting into various sites and having random discussions. She lives in New Jersey with her husband Vijay.

Ramya Satyam P. is a third year student of Civil engineering. She is from Hyderabad and is interested in table tennis, sketching, painting, and in playing the keyboard.  She has been the captain for the Table Tennis team for BOSM 2003. She has been working as an intern at the Center for Software Development (CSD) for over a year. She is also working as a Professional Assistant in the Practice School Division (PSD) on .NET projects. She is a core member and Coordinator of Creative activities Club (CRAC) for OASIS 2004 and the Joint Coordinator for the Civil Engineering Association for APOGEE 2005. At CSD, she worked on multimedia part of the websites like Intrabits and is now working on the Virtual University.

Sabyasachi Kar ('97) is currently doing his MBA at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Prior to that he was a product manager at Lucent Technologies in Boston working on convergence products for European and Japanese clients. Sabya holds an BE (Hons) in Instrumentation from BITS (1997) and an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University, Boston(2003).

sabyasachi.kar@flextronicssoftware.com

Sagarika Jaganathan ('93) is currently pursuing her masters in Journalism in the Bay Area, focusing on public interest writing while working for her university's career center. She has 4+ years of writing and editing experience working in the IT sector. She had a brief stint with ELAS, and won the Valentine's Day poetry contest held by the Languages Association of BITS with her poem, "Man of my dreams," which eventually lead her to husband Sri. Sagarika turned down an admission to Chemical at BITS to pursue an engineering degree in Coimbatore, but quit after a semester to return to Pilani in winter 1994. She holds an MSc.(Hons)in Biological Sciences and a diploma in technical writing. Sagarika lives in Mountain View, CA, with husband Srivatsan and daughter Vidusha."

Sandeep Mukherjee (’95) works at Nationwide Insurance & Financial Services in Columbus, Ohio, as their Manager for Business Process Solutions. As a volunteer with the Columbus Literacy Council he teaches English Language Skills to immigrants from South Vietnam. At BITS, Sandeep was Joint Secretary of the English Press Club and on the Editorial Teams of Cactus Flower and Sandpaper. He also worked in the Department of Publications and Correspondence for OASIS '96-97. He holds an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University and dual degrees in MSc (Hons) Physics and BE (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from BITS. He enjoys the occasional hiking or skiing trip.

smukherjee@bitsaa.org

Suraj Srinivasan ('86) is a PhD student in Accounting at Harvard Business School. Suraj resides in Cambridge, MA with his wife and son. Suraj was President of the Student Union at BITS.

suraj.srinivasan@gsb.uchicago.edu

Venu Palaparthi (‘87) is Vice President of Business Audit and Risk Assurance at Instinet, an electronic agency broker owned by Reuters in New York City. Venu previously worked at Reuters in marketing strategy, post-acquisition integration planning, audit, operational review, and fixed income analytics. At BITS, Venu lived backstage and worked on or managed over a dozen stage productions. This effectively halved his CGPA between his first year at BITS and final year.

Venu holds an MBA in Finance from University of Texas at Arlington (Class of '94), and holds dual degrees in Economics and Computer Science from BITS (Class of '92).  He is Series 7, 27, and 63 registered but knows nothing about making money.   Venu is married to Kranthi who calls herself a "BITSian by marriage."  Venu and Kranthi have a son, Vikrant, who is looking forward to obtaining his BITS id - 2021B3A7.

prexy@yahoo.com

Vikas Chandra ('94) is a member of technical staff at Tabula Inc., a fabless semiconductor start-up in Santa Clara, CA. He briefly worked at the Central Research & Development division of the European  semiconductor  company, STMicroelectronics at Noida (India) and Crolles (France) just after his undergrad. During his graduate studies at CMU, he worked at IBM Research Lab at Austin, TX and Intel Research Lab at Portland, OR.  Vikas  has published in international IEEE conferences and IEEE journals and  has  couple of US patents pending. Recently, he has developed an avid interest in photography and plans to do a picture-portrait of BITS sometime soon.  He is involved with Sandpaper, BITSAA academic council and BITS OLAB.  At  BITS, he was involved with Hindi Press Club (HPC) and Hindi Drama Club  (HDC). Vikas holds a BE (Hons) in Instrumentation Engg (1998) from BITS, an MS  and Ph.D. in CE from Carnegie Mellon University (2002, 2004). Vikas  lives in Santa Clara, CA.

vikas.chandra@gmail.com