BiographyDr. Himanshu Asnani had held full-time faculty appointment in the School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS) at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and visiting appointments at the University of Washington-Seattle, Stanford University, and IIT Bombay. His research interests in academia included artificial intelligence, machine learning, information theory and statistics. He had received his B.Tech. from IIT Bombay (IIT JEE Mains All India Rank 4, IIT JEE Screening All India Rank 1) and M.S. and PhD from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. After his post-graduation he worked in Corporate America (Ericsson Silicon Valley) following which he got involved in some of his edu-startups (currently Aveti Learning) which especially focussed on fostering education in underprivileged areas with minimal access to English, Internet, and Electricity. His awards include Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, Amazon Catalyst Fellowship and Bronze Medalist in the International Chemistry Olympiad. A connoisseur of literature, linguistics, and classical music, he researches in the areas of philosophy, social psychology, and history. He is also involved in English and vernacular translation of ancient wisdom texts. His debut work in fiction, Horizons, is a collection of short stories on life's fundamental questions. |