Aditya Gulati 

aka Professor as his friends call him. A 5th year student of IIITB. He has a stellar academic record, and his knowledge spans to various domains. He is a factoid, and is very fond of the work that he is doing. His understanding and application of concepts is mind boggling and he definitely is one of the brightest seniors that we Know of. A DAAD scholarship winner and a visiting scholar at CMU he is currently pursuing his interests in the field of Brain inspired AI. Our conversation with him gave us valuable insights into how he navigated through college life, and how he approaches various decisions in life

Tejas Kotha:

He is a 5th year at IIIT Bangalore, pursuing his Intergrated Masters of Technology in Electronics and Communication. He has been instrumental in the creation of clubs, committees and various other initiatives for the college community. TEDxIIITBangalore is his brainchild and it most definitely has come a long way just like his other initiatives. He has been the mentor for our team, and has been pivotal in the creation of this podcast. He emphasises on the importance of interacting and networking with people and also contributing to the community. There’s more than just a few lessons to take away from this podcast, and we hope you get to learn from them.

Shreyas Gupta:

He is a 5th year at IIIT Bangalore pursuing his iMTech in Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition. He is currently doing a research internship in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at the University of Gothenburg. Among his other interests, he is a UX designer and believes that every product with an impact will fail if it isn’t good with its interface design. He was pivotal in starting TEDxIIITBangalore and his various experiences of leadership there is definitely something to learn from. We got an opportunity to interact with him about all of this and much more.

Ananya Appan:

Nishant Malpani:

He is a 5th year student at IIIT Bangalore, pursuing his iMTech. His interests span over both electronics and computer science. He has had a college life well balanced between fun, studies and sports. He loves taking solo trips and has made huge contributions to IIIT Bangalore's community life. Our conversation with him brought out how he managed to turn around his lows in academics of the first two years without affecting his social life, his solo trips, basketball and his other experiences. We hope you will be able to take away something valuable from his college and life experiences.

Pranav Kedia

He is a 2020 iMTech graduate from IIIT Bangalore, Co-Founder of Enigma - the robotics club of IIITB and is pursuing a career in hardware research focused on Swarm Robotics.

His life is full of interesting episodes, some of which we captured through this podcast. He believes in taking risks and emphasises on the importance of networking. He likes to travel and when he does, he makes sure to learn a few phrases of the native language. When he’s not travelling, he likes to try different cuisines by either ordering in or cooking it himself. We hope you get to see a different take on things and enjoy listening to it. 

Topics discussed : 

Early college life, the birth of Enigma, his interest in hardware, his Intel internship, taking risks and making connections, Swarm Robotics, travelling and food.

Satvik Ramaprasad

He is a 5th-year student at IIITB and he is popularly known as the founder of CircuitVerse - a GSoC organisation. CircuitVerse is an online, digital logic circuit simulator which aims at providing a platform to create, share and learn digital circuits. His passion lies in developing and building products and applying computer science to solve problems that he sees. We were able to talk about his various achievements as a developer, CircuitVerse, the entrepreneurial bug in him and much more.

Topics discussed: Why IIIT Bangalore, Building CircuitVerse, OpenSource projects, entrepreneurship, his future plans.

Atibhi Agrawal

She is a 5th-year student at IIITB pursuing her Integrated Masters in Technology. She is an active contributor to the open-source community, having been a part of RGSoC as a mentee and GSoC as a mentor. She advocates for women in tech and has been instrumental in setting up Lean-in, a college club, meant to increase the participation of women in tech.  We had the opportunity to discuss her views on a wide variety of topics and we hope you enjoy it.

00 - 03 Life in Kota vs life in Bangalore

03 - 05 Changes through college life, Harlem shake

05 -  07 Personal growth

07 - 10 Interest in art ( @artbyathibhi ), music playlist

10 - 12 CV, Internships

12 - 14 Google interview process

14 - 17 Google internship work culture

17 - 20 What a good resume looks like, stalk LinkedIn

20 - 21 opportunities through Twitter

21 - 25 CGPA or doing something your are passionate about, never hurts to have a good CGPA

25 - 27 Pivoting from ECE to CSE, how IIITB helped

27 - 30 Motivation for Lean in club, Women in tech

30 - 34 why different club from Zense or CAMP

34 - 42 women in tech debate, JEE girls quota, looking at the bigger picture

42 - 45 Quora and deleting old answers

45 - 48 Body positivity

48 - 50 Missing swimming and sports during college

50 - 54 Privacy, gossips, tightly knit community

Arpitha Malavalli

She is currently pursuing her iMTech in Computer Science at IIIT Bangalore. Along with having an excellent academic record, she is also a part of the women’s basketball and throwball college teams. She had volunteered her time to teach underprivileged children in her first year of college. We got to discuss how she maintains a balance between her academics and extracurriculars. We hope you get to take away something valuable from this podcast and apply to your lives.

00 - 02 mins - Introduction

02 - 07 mins - College experience till now

07 - 10 mins - Balance life and prioritising work

10 - 17 mins - Volunteering and its motivation

17 - 19 mins -  Personal Preferences (Text editor, 12 AM person, Pizza)

19 - 21 mins - Introvertness and how sports helped her

21 - 24 mins - Spandan, Umang, SportsComm

24 - 35 mins - Induction committee (SquareOne), P.E, friends

Sound credits: Shounak Shirodkar

Aditya Shridhar Hegde

He is currently pursuing his iMTech in Computer Science at IIIT Bangalore. With a stellar academic record and a keen interest in computer science and mathematics, he plans to pursue a PhD in theoretical computer science. We got to discuss a lot of interesting approaches of his, and his ideology of enjoying the work he does is quite interesting as he tells us how important it is to get things done. We had a lot of fun getting to know him and we hope you get to take away something valuable from this podcast.

00 - 05 mins - Academic performance

05 - 15 mins - Theoretical Computer Science

15 - 22 mins - Project and Hackathon experience

22 - 32 mins - Personal Preferences ( programming language, editors, etc)

32 - 37 mins - Developments in Computer Science and his views

37 - 39 mins - What’s on your desktop

39 - 50 mins - His hobbies, Philosophies and Ideologies

Music credit : Shounak Shirodkar