Ashoka University: Information Session

Speaker: Vineet Gupta, Rakesh Jaggi, Sudheendra Hangal , Ashoka University

Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Refreshments: 1:00 PM

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Location: G8 Reading Room

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Ashoka University: Information Session

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 25th 2014
Time: 1p.m. - 2.30p.m.

Location: MITStata Center G8 Reading Room.
Lunch will be served.

The session will provide details about Ashoka University and the opportunity it offers for teaching, research and institution building in an emerging economy like India.

Speakers: Vineet Gupta, Rakesh Jaggi and Sudheendra Hangal

About the speakers:
Vineet Gupta is Founder and Trustee at Ashoka University. He is also the Managing Director of Jamboree Education, a leading education services provider in India. He has a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and is currently based in New Delhi, India.
Rakesh Jaggi is Founder and Trustee at Ashoka University. He is also Vice-President at Schlumberger, an oil field services company. He has a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and is currently based in Houston, Texas.
Sudheendra Hangal is Associate Professor of Practice in Computer Science at Ashoka University. His research focuses on the areas of human-computer interaction, social media and personal digital archives. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

About Ashoka University:
Ashoka is an upcoming liberal arts university in New Delhi, India. It is being set-up by a group of philanthropists keen on bringing global standards to education in India. Ashoka’s primary offering is a four year undergraduate program founded in the liberal arts. Ashoka is acknowledged as one of the most promising initiatives in the higher education sector in India. It has been extensively covered in various media including The New York Times. The founders have also established the Young India Fellowship, a one year graduate certificate scholarship. Both the University & the Fellowship are entirely philanthropic. The university is scheduled to welcome its first batch of students in August 2014 at a fully-residential 25-acre campus in Rajiv Gandhi Education City in the National Capital Region of Delhi, India. For further details about Ashoka University please visit: www.ashoka.edu.in

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