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| Ayya completed his M.Tech in chemical engineering from IITM and joined TCS in 2000, and has been with them since, working from their Ambattur office. He recently returned from his second assignment in the US. |
| Bals completed his M.S. in mat. sci. from the University of Florida, Gainsville during the summer of 2000. He currently works for a company in Boston (anyone know the name?) On June 20, 2002, Bals became the first guy in our batch to get engaged and also the first to get married. Aparna and Bals got married in January 2003 at Madurai. Aparna is into IT and was working in Bangalore before the marriage. They are now in Boston |
| Chandy completed his M.E in chemical engineering (!!) from IISc. in 2000, and joined Infosys, and has been with them since. He is based in Bangalore. |
| Chari went to the Utah State University, Logan, Utah to work towards a Ph.D. in chemistry. After a year of troubled relationship with his over-bearing boss, he took a transfer to the University of Kentucky at Louisville, where he became the first among us to the see the innards of an american courtroom after his neighbour sued him for creating trouble at night. One of the allegations was that Chari purposefully flushes the toilet multiple times in the middle of the night with the sole intention of disturbing the petitioner :) At last contact, he had joined "a small company in Tuscon, Arizona". |
| Ducupy went to SUNY Stony brook, to pursue a Ph.D. in mat. sci. He has been assidiously pursuing this goal, while finding time to visit the statue of liberty a zillion times and generally acting as a free tour guide for folks visiting the Big Apple. |
| Deepa went to Texas A&M to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry. In January 2001, she became the first in our batch to tie the knot. (What's his name) works for US West (?) and lives in Colarado (?) |
| Doddai went to the University of Southern Florida at Tampa Bay, and managed to graduate with a M.S. in Civil Engineering (!) His prof liked his research on corrosion so much that he almost refused to let doddai go. After using a lot of his spare cunning, which he was once so confident would take him to the top of the FBI, doddai managed to wriggle out; and continuing to perform the unlikely, found himself a job in a small town in Montana. Rumour has it that he is the only non-caucasian to have ever set foot in that picturesque little northern town. (What's the name of the company). His current favourite pass time is to drive across montana to the Washington border to visit the nearest desi grocery store and stock up on puli and rasam powder and also meet up with OGB who comes from Seattle just to meet doddai. |
| Gidu went to the Iowa state university where he is working to get a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. It is gathered that his stay in the US has been very exciting thus far. Sometime in 2001, I believe, he became the first guy in our batch to contract a communicable disease (chicken pox) while in the US. In another, unrelated, incident one random american teenager, after he totalled gidu's car and drove away said he ran away because Gidu looked like a middle eastern muslim and that that terrified him. |
| Goodha went to work for Hyderabad batteries in Hyderabad. After three years there, he joined the MBA program at RECT. He has a job offer with the Forex dept of Andhra bank, and our man is all set to go back to Mana Naadu after the completion of his course. |
| Govalu went to IIMC and specialised in systems and finance. He was heard saying that he found the cut-throat competition and the things that go with it to be stiffling and anti to everything that our b.tech experience was. After graduating from IIMC he joined INautix. He spent nearly 12 months in New York City completing about 15 months with the company. While in NYC, he was witness to the collapse of the WTC towers. He recently returned to india and joined delhi-based EvaluServe. After a short stint he quit that job and has just accepted a position with Infosys, Bangalore. Whatever it was in Gurgaon, it must not have been good... |
| Gump went to cecri US division in south cal. He is working on his Ph.D. in electrochemistry. Gump is one of the first to defend their PhD thesis (it is not very clear who was first - Gump or Ponns) |
| Kamule went to symbiosis, and graduated in 2000. He has been upto a number of things since then, and appears to be based in Bangalore. |
| Karra went to the Univ of Utah to work on a MS in chem eng. About 3 semesters, 4 chem eng courses and 6 comp. sci courses later his chem eng. prof decided enough was enough and cut his funding. After a couple of nerve-wracking funding-less months he obtained admission into the MS program of the comp. sci dept. in spring 2000. He completed his masters in comp sci in the summer of 2001, after which he returned to India. He was with Prodapt solutions Ltd, a software services startup based in alwarpet, Madras, for all of four months before quitting. He is now with HCL Technologies, Madras, working in their Networking Products Division. |
| Koorai completed his M.S. in chemical engineering after 2 years of general fooling around in IISc with chandy. He too joined Infosys. He is based somewhere in the north; he is currently on a client assignment to the US, where he witnessed live, the collapse of the WTC towers from his Goldman Sachs Wall Street office. He is scheduled to return sometime soon. |
| LSU went to IITM where he attempted to get a M.Tech in chemical engineering. The profs liked him and his work so much that they retained him (and his project mate) for a few more months so they could interact with them on a more personal level. Amidst all this he managed to take up a developer position with Next Set pvt ltd. where he worked for two years. After two years of Lsu, the company is now almost bankrupt and essentially on its deathbed. Lsu shrewdly made the jump to neighbouring Isoft ltd. for whom the countdown now begins :) Lsu got engaged to Ramya in September. The marriage will be sometime in May 2003. Ramya works in the HR team at Lsu's old company Next Set. |
| Madhi spent some time in anna university before joining the phd program at Univ of Georgia at athens in fall 2000. He is still working on his thesis. |
| Mama worked a while in madras and then joined the phd program in chemistry at the univ of georgia, athens. Mama has the distinction of being the only one among us to own a bike in the US. Mama Lives with Madhi. So, home address is the same as Madhi's. |
| Muddle got a MBA from RECT, and joined Iflex solutions, bangalore; where she is reportedly having a nice time with Thommai and Kandy. |
| Mulla went to south cal where he is still working on a Ph.D. in electrochemistry. Lives with GMP -- look there for Home numbers |
| Muthu went to Stanford to pursue a Ph.D. in comp. sci. Shortly thereafter he started BharatPlanet.com in madras along with a couple of cecri seniors, while continuing to work on his thesis. He is currently winding up his Ph.D. work, but is still undecided on wether to go into academia or industry. |
| OGB joined the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is still working on his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. |
| OP completed his M.S. in bio medical engineering from Case Western. and joined Zyomix, a biotech startup in the San Francisco bay area sometime in 2000, and has been with them since. He says he will go back to school and get his phd some day :) |
| Pambu spent a little time at home and then joined CTS in madras. He has been with them since, working out of their cathedral road office. |
| After cecri, Perusu joined Shriram Pistons and Rings in Ghaziabad, near New Delhi. He was so succesful there that his nick was temporarily changed to "Piston Perusu"; After a while he could not take the strain of being away from home and returned to madras to work for clicktickets.com. In April 2000, he joined Muthu and Co. at bharatplanet.com as "domain architect". He currently leads the tech team at bharat planet. Perusu got engaged to Anita in June 2002 and is schedule to get married in May 2003. Anita is a second year MCA student in Madras. |
| Ponns went to the U of Mich, Ann Arbor, initially to pursue a Ph.D. in corrosion at the nuclear engineering dept. After two semesters he transferred to electrical engineering and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program, where he works on cutting edge MEMS technology. By some accounts, he is the most travelled of our batchmates what with 3 trips to europe, visits to hawaii and the like - all in the name of conferences and presentations. In late 2002 he successfully defended his thesis and now is all set to move to the west coast to take up a research position with a national labs there (Darn! I just cannot recall the name) |
| After CECRI, PV went to FMS, Delhi. He graduated in 2000 and joined Dabur, where he is busy becoming "under se strong" by downing kilos of chawanprash, to compensate for his new found love for products from ITC. |
| Raja joined the electroplating division of TVS; he was posted for a while in Hosur; his current coordinates are unknown. |
| Raman was the first of the trinity to join the department of chemistry at U Georgia, Athens, where his excellent work paved the way for admissions for mama and later madhi. He is winding up his Ph.D. in chemistry. Raman also has the distinction of being the only one to not have visited India even once after going to the U.S. |
| Sox went to the Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah where he is pursuing his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at a rather leisurely pace, while thoroughly enjoying the good life scenic Utah has to offer. The dry desert like utah weather has suited sox particularly well, and appears to have solved his painful asthma problems. Between frequent visits to the Delta center and Karra's apartment in Salt Lake City, Sox managed to get some research going on the combustion of rocket fuels. He expects his work to eventually land him a job with ISRO or DRDO. This is, after all, just rocket science, says the ever humble sox. |
| Thanga joined the electroplating division of TVS at Hosur where he did his bit in making TVS Victor the successful bike it is now (and saved "a few crores" for TVS, in his own humble words :). After two years of impressive work, TVS sent him to the University of Warwick to work on a Masters degree in industrial engineering. He completed his degree and returned to work for TVS in september 2001. |
| Zangaru got a M.Tech degree in chemical engineering from IITM, and joined PWC, calcutta as an IT consultant. He quit his job in June 2002 and decided to go back to school. He is now in the second semester of the M.S. Business Administration programme at the Business School at UMCP. |
| This document was generated by taking a raw XML file containing all the info and applying an XSL transformation on it. The raw XML document itself was generated from Karra's BBDB database using the bbdb-xml-print.el package, which had to be hacked a little to work with recent BBDB versions. If you are interested in that elisp program, chances are you would find this dtd, written by Norman Walsh, useful as well. |