{"id":1057,"date":"2016-07-25T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2016-07-28T22:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:33:59","slug":"iiitdstudentsrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"#IIITDStudentsRock in Europe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to see IIITD students going places. In the last 3 months I met many students \/ Alums of IIITD in different parts of Europe. It almost feels like, I can find a IIITD alum in most major cities that I travel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/lovingmyfacultylife\">#LovingMyFacultyLife<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Here I present IIITD ambassadors who are making a difference in the world, listing them in reverse chronological order of meeting with them. Thanks to each one of them for taking time to catch up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zurich &#8211; \u00a0About a week before my visit, I did this search on Facebook, \u201cmy friends in z\u00fcrich\u201d something I do very regularly before I visit a city! Below are 2 students whom I met there (more details about them and my connections with them).\u00a0Below is a pic with Mridula and Aritra during my visit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mridula-singh-9a480925 \">Mridula Singh<\/a>:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Graduated from IIITD with an M.Tech. in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She has taken my CSE 645: Privacy and Security in Online Social Media course.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She started Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in May 2016.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She spent the time 2014 &#8211; 2016 in Xerox Research Centre in India (XRCI); many of our ambassadors are at XRCI, including my own Ph.D. student, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paridhij\">Paridhi Jain<\/a>!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aritradhar\">Aritra Dar<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Graduated from IIITD with an M.Tech. in 2015.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Started Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in May 2016.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">He has never taken a class with me, but he was a member of <a href=\"cerc.iiitd.ac.in\">Cybersecurity Education and Research Centre (CERC)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">He also spent his time 2015 &#8211; 2016 in Xerox Research Centre in India (XRCI).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mridula-Aritra-ETH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1058\" title=\"Mridula-Aritra-ETH\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mridula-Aritra-ETH-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>My host in ETH Zurich is the Ph.D. advisor for both Mridula and Aritra, he was so happy with the performance of both of them. He appreciated the skills that both had and was very happy to have them as his Ph.D. students. As a faculty, we are always pleased to hear good things about our students.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">During this visit to ETH, I also realized, in addition to direct influence or impact by a faculty, how much of indirect influence or impact that a faculty can have on students of his \/ her institute. My host in ETH mentioned [paraphrased] \u201cI would not have looked at Mridula and Artira\u2019s Ph.D. admission application, if I did not know PK. IIIT Delhi is not an institute which ETH was aware of, and I had to do some paperwork to get Mridula &amp; Aritra admitted.\u201d Both Mridula and Artitra are not my students, and I did not write a letter of recommendations for them too.\u00a0 I was more than elated and happy to hear this and realized the indirect influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I met with Prateek Gaur and Srishty Grover in Berlin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gaurprateek\">Prateek Gaur<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Graduated from IIITD with a B.Tech. in 2012, our first batch of B.Tech. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">He finished his Masters, Information Technology for Business Intelligence from Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">He is currently working as a Senior Data Engineer at Automotive Startup in Berlin.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Prateek has taken many of my courses in the first 3 years at IIITD, like, Research Methods, and Foundations of Computer Security<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/srishty-grover-1b2b5a30\">Srishty Grover<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Graduated from IIITD with a B.Tech. in 2013.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She is currently finishing her MBA from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, New Delhi.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">As part of her MBA she was in Berlin at ESCP Europe and now is interning at Eurosender in Berlin.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Srishty has also taken many of my courses, including CSE 501: Designing Human Centred Systems, and Foundations in Computer Security.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Below is a picture with Prateek &amp; Srishty.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Prateek-Srishty-Berlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1059\" title=\"Prateek-Srishty-Berlin\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Prateek-Srishty-Berlin-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meghaarora42\">Megha Arora<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Finished her B.Tech. at IIITD this year, 2016.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She is currently interning at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She is heading to CMU in mid Aug to do her Masters in Computer Science incidentally my Alma Mater too!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">She had a <a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/Publications_files\/Lerman_Arora_ICWSM_2016.pdf\">paper<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">to present at 10the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16) in Cologne, Germany. I was also attending the conference. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/2016\/06\/i-have-been-precog-ed-part-3\/\">blog<\/a>\u00a0that Megha wrote about her paper presentation and here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/precogatIIITD\/icwsm-2016-paper-presentation-megha-arora\">Slides<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">of her talk!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Megha has taken almost all courses from me and she has actually spent the last 3+ years with <a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/\">Precog<\/a>. Below is a picture with Megha outside the venue of the conference.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Megha-ICWSM1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1061\" title=\"Megha-ICWSM\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Megha-ICWSM1-927x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aditya.gulati.35\">Aditya Gulati<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Graduated from IIITD with a B.Tech. in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Spent some time in Industry, now doing Masters in Saarland University and he is focussing on HCI. He told me that he has taken CSE 501: DCHS course that I teach in campus. In his own words \u201cI still remember and value HCI lecture[s] offered by you\u201d #satisfying\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Below is the picture that Aditya and I took in front of the MPI-SWS building (see the IIITD Tshirts both of us are wearing).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Aditya-MPI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1062\" title=\"Aditya-MPI\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Aditya-MPI-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.correa.in\/\">Denzil Correa<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">He started his Ph.D. at IIITD on the same day as I started my faculty job at IIITD. I remember the first interactions with him (or should I say \u2018they&#8217;, and I am sure they remember the interactions better than me, right Samarth? Kuldeep? Himanshu?)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Graduated from IIITD in 2015, spent some time as Post-Doc at MPI-SWS and now joins as a Data Scientists @ Bayer.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">I met him in MPI during his last week \/ day @ MPI. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Below is the picture of Denzil (top left in a black tshirt) with Precogs in one of our outings in 2011 while he was still a student at IIITD.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Denzil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1063\" title=\"Denzil\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Denzil-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I plan to try and connect with students while traveling, something that I have started doing in the recent past. We did a small get together of all IIITD alums in summer 2015 in Bengaluru, below is a picture from meetup. Thanks to all the students who take time to catch up when I travel. Interestingly, I just realized that, Mridula, Aritra, Samarth, Himanshu, \u00a0and Kuldeep mentioned in this post are in this picture!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015-Alum-BLR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1064\" title=\"2015-Alum-BLR\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2015-Alum-BLR-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S. I request all students of IIITD to update their current city on Facebook, I missed meeting with a student in one of the cities that I visited here recently, because I did not know she was living there \ud83d\ude41 I would have really loved to catch up with her! I got to know about her being there only a few days after my visit.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I missed mentioning about the IIITD ambassadors in Singapore; met with them on Nov 5, 2015. Thanks to Priyanshi Mittal, Vibhas Kumar, Jatin Kumar and Ankit Sarkar for taking time in meeting with me. Below is a pic from the meet up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Singapore-Nov-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1144\" title=\"Singapore-Nov-2015\" src=\"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Singapore-Nov-2015-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to see IIITD students going places. In the last 3 months I met many students \/ Alums of IIITD in different parts of Europe. It almost feels like, I can find a IIITD alum in most major cities that I travel. #LovingMyFacultyLife\u00a0Here I present IIITD ambassadors who are making a difference in the world, listing them in reverse chronological order of meeting with them. Thanks to each one of them for taking time to catch up.\u00a0 Zurich &#8211; \u00a0About a week before my visit, I did this search on Facebook, \u201cmy friends in z\u00fcrich\u201d something I do very regularly before I visit a city! Below are 2 students whom I met there (more details about them and my connections with them).\u00a0Below is a pic with Mridula and Aritra during my visit. Mridula Singh:\u00a0Graduated from IIITD with an M.Tech. in 2014.\u00a0She has taken my CSE 645: Privacy and Security in Online Social Media course.\u00a0She started Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in May 2016.\u00a0She spent the time 2014 &#8211; 2016 in Xerox Research Centre in India (XRCI); many of our ambassadors are at XRCI, including my own Ph.D. student, Paridhi Jain!\u00a0 Aritra Dar\u00a0:\u00a0Graduated from IIITD with an M.Tech. in 2015.\u00a0Started Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in May 2016.\u00a0He has never taken a class with me, but he was a member of Cybersecurity Education and Research Centre (CERC).\u00a0He also spent his time 2015 &#8211; 2016 in Xerox Research Centre in India (XRCI).\u00a0 My host in ETH Zurich is the Ph.D. advisor for both Mridula and Aritra, he was so happy with the performance of both of them. He appreciated the skills that both had and was very happy to have them as his Ph.D. students. As a faculty, we are always pleased to hear good things about our students. During this visit to ETH, I also realized, in addition to direct influence or impact by a faculty, how much of indirect influence or impact that a faculty can have on students of his \/ her institute. My host in ETH mentioned [paraphrased] \u201cI would not have looked at Mridula and Artira\u2019s Ph.D. admission application, if I did not know PK. IIIT Delhi is not an institute which ETH was aware of, and I had to do some paperwork to get Mridula &amp; Aritra admitted.\u201d Both Mridula and Artitra are not my students, and I did not write a letter of recommendations for them too.\u00a0 I was more than elated and happy to hear this and realized the indirect influence. I met with Prateek Gaur and Srishty Grover in Berlin. Prateek Gaur\u00a0:\u00a0Graduated from IIITD with a B.Tech. in 2012, our first batch of B.Tech. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0He finished his Masters, Information Technology for Business Intelligence from Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany.\u00a0He is currently working as a Senior Data Engineer at Automotive Startup in Berlin.\u00a0Prateek has taken many of my courses in the first 3 years at IIITD, like, Research Methods, and Foundations of Computer Security Srishty Grover:\u00a0Graduated from IIITD with a B.Tech. in 2013.\u00a0She is currently finishing her MBA from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, New Delhi.\u00a0As part of her MBA she was in Berlin at ESCP Europe and now is interning at Eurosender in Berlin.\u00a0Srishty has also taken many of my courses, including CSE 501: Designing Human Centred Systems, and Foundations in Computer Security.\u00a0 Below is a picture with Prateek &amp; Srishty. Megha Arora:\u00a0Finished her B.Tech. at IIITD this year, 2016.\u00a0She is currently interning at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.\u00a0She is heading to CMU in mid Aug to do her Masters in Computer Science incidentally my Alma Mater too!\u00a0She had a paper\u00a0to present at 10the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16) in Cologne, Germany. I was also attending the conference. Here is a blog\u00a0that Megha wrote about her paper presentation and here are the Slides\u00a0of her talk!\u00a0Megha has taken almost all courses from me and she has actually spent the last 3+ years with Precog. Below is a picture with Megha outside the venue of the conference.\u00a0 Aditya Gulati:\u00a0Graduated from IIITD with a B.Tech. in 2014.\u00a0Spent some time in Industry, now doing Masters in Saarland University and he is focussing on HCI. He told me that he has taken CSE 501: DCHS course that I teach in campus. In his own words \u201cI still remember and value HCI lecture[s] offered by you\u201d #satisfying\u00a0Below is the picture that Aditya and I took in front of the MPI-SWS building (see the IIITD Tshirts both of us are wearing).\u00a0 Denzil Correa:\u00a0He started his Ph.D. at IIITD on the same day as I started my faculty job at IIITD. I remember the first interactions with him (or should I say \u2018they&#8217;, and I am sure they remember the interactions better than me, right Samarth? Kuldeep? Himanshu?)\u00a0Graduated from IIITD in 2015, spent some time as Post-Doc at MPI-SWS and now joins as a Data Scientists @ Bayer.\u00a0I met him in MPI during his last week \/ day @ MPI. Below is the picture of Denzil (top left in a black tshirt) with Precogs in one of our outings in 2011 while he was still a student at IIITD.\u00a0 I plan to try and connect with students while traveling, something that I have started doing in the recent past. We did a small get together of all IIITD alums in summer 2015 in Bengaluru, below is a picture from meetup. Thanks to all the students who take time to catch up when I travel. Interestingly, I just realized that, Mridula, Aritra, Samarth, Himanshu, \u00a0and Kuldeep mentioned in this post are in this picture! P.S. I request all students of IIITD to update their current city on Facebook, I missed meeting with a student in one of the cities that I visited here recently, because I did not know she was living there \ud83d\ude41 I would have really loved to catch up with her! I got to know about her being there only a few days after my visit. P.S. I missed mentioning about the IIITD ambassadors in Singapore; met with them on Nov 5, 2015. Thanks to Priyanshi Mittal, Vibhas Kumar, Jatin Kumar and Ankit Sarkar for taking time in meeting with me. 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