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Visiting Scholar (Research)                                                   Purdue University,  USA                                                                               

  • An NSF grant-funded project supervised by Associate Professor Jitesh Panchal, that aims to detect decision making instances in a design engineering team using AI/ML tools.

  • Developed a graphical network representation of topics generated in a conversation using NLP by analysing audio and textual data, done in collaboration with DELP Lab and is in the process of being built as an academic publication.

Community and Grants Manager                                          IKP Eden, Bengaluru               

  • Part of the operational team of one of the biggest hardware incubators in India, which manages USD 25 Million in grants and aid for Startups with organisations like BIRAC, USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and DFID.

  • Researched for the Grand Challenges Karnataka 2019 and managed K-Tech Innovation Hub, Jalahalli.

OJASVI GUPTA

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Business Dev Consultant                                     Storyia, Remote                                                 

  • Consultant for early-stage startups, dealt with business plan development, content proofreading and brand management.

  • Roster of six startup clients, four are now registered companies in hardware manufacturing and two are profitable.

Tech Maker and Program Curator                                         Workbench Projects  

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  • Involved in Hardware consulting, Design Thinking Facilitation for a makerspace/think-tank startup working at an intersection of Government, Private and Startup ecosystem resulting in 2.5X revenue and 2X team growth 

Innovation and Design Researcher                                         Forbes Ignite Impact Fellow

  • Building an AI + Healthcare solutions to bring meaningful change in the healthcare industry, as a cohort of 30 women changemakers across the world.

Researcher for Grand Challenges Karnataka project Designed GCK grant’s call-for-proposals, also conducted in-depth research on challenges that the hardware startups are solving today to devise relevant problem statements for the challenge.  

 

Program Lead for Ctrl+Alt+Make, supported by Intel Curated and executed an intervention-style 3-day program with 60 Alternate Schooling Learners, 25 Entrepreneurs, Techies and Makers, with sessions in VR, IoT and Digital Fabrication. 

 

Project Lead for BMMF 2016​ Led a team of 40 Volunteers and 10 Core team, devised the program agenda, press releases and a successful social media campaign for an event with 20+ workshops, 50+ makers and a 3000 footfall count. 

 

Lead Trainer for a Mobile makerspace with Learning Links Foundation and DELL Training on-ground Facilitators of a pilot program launched in Hyderabad, focusing on STEAM Education for underprivileged government school students​.

LEADERSHIP

Constitutional debates from an AI’s eye An on-going project, using NLP, which analyses the original Indian Constitutional debates to generate critical topics of discussion and detects speech acts providing insights on speaker and content patterns. 

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Space Optimization Managed the team that used Reinforcement Learning and GAN models to artificially generate new architectural floor plans that optimize for parameters like HVAC (energy usage) and occupancy. 

 

Voice-controlled Inventory Manager Alexa based command controlled inventory manager for small-scale inventories.

 

ALZheal A smart assistive device for Alzheimer’s Patients designed during undergraduate degree for Microsoft Imagine Cup.

TECHNICAL

EDUCATION

Ol School

Plaksha Tech Leaders Fellowship

Post-Graduate Program

2020

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak

B.Tech. Electronics & Comm

2016

Online

Designing a Business (IDEO U 2020)

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Private Equity and Venture Capital (Coursera, 2019)

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Design Thinking (NUMA, 2018)

 

User Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MIT/ EdX, 2017)

 

Negotiation (Yale/ Coursera, 2020)

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Wrote for Australian publication, GlobalHobo The Indo-Japan Driver Exchange which illustrates Ethnographic Research-based Narrative Journalism

Mention in The Hindu, Enable Makeathon 2 finalists, a Disability Inclusion event with the ICRC, Sweden 

Mention in Makery magazine, Maker girls at the Fabfest a French Magazine promoting Creators of today

Technical reportage for TiE Bangalore, IoT Day

MEDIA AND

RESEARCH

AWARDS

AND STUFF

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Speaker at FabLab Fest 2017, Toulouse, France on “Innovation in developing economies”

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Conducted design and team workshops at Google, SapientNitro, Honeywell and others

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25Under25 Awards in ‘Science & Technology’ by Tata and Campus Diaries,  2016

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Semi-Finalist for Rolex Enterprise Awards 2016 for Oxynhale, an IoT projec

DESIGN

UX Writer                                                                                    Turtle Shell Tech, Bengaluru         

  • Designing user-centric microcopies for the health tracker Dozee's native app

  • Conducted User and Market Research to develop intuitive UX Content

  • Conducted iterative UX testing through Word Association and Readability Tests, building on the contextual inquiries delivered during User Interviews

Design Thinking Co-Trainer                                                     SapientNitro, Plaksha              

  • Led Design Thinking workshops in STEM bootcamps for Tinkerama(Ed-Tech startup recently incubated by IIMB)

  • Assistant for Prof Jitesh Panchal for his course on Design Thinking at Plaksha University for TLF 2021

  • Associate Trainer for a Design Workshop for Visual Design Team at SapientNitro, Bengaluru

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