BITSians of Note - I

Here goes the inaugural profile:

Name: Mr. Mahesh Ramasubramanian

Batch: 93, Computer Science

Present designation: Digital Effects Supervisor

Company: Dreamworks Animation, Greater Los Angeles, USA

After completing his under-graduation from BITS in 97 Mahesh went on to the Cornell University to do an MS in Computer Graphics. After completing his MS he went on to work at Pacific Data Images as a Visual Effects Animator where he worked on movies like Shrek, Shrek-2. The company was then bought by Dreamworks SKG where he worked on movies like Madagascar. Presently he is working at Dreamworks Animation and has also worked on movies like Over the Hedge, The bee movie, etc. (Been the lead!)

Mahesh has his own IMDB page (Wow!) which lists:

1. Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) (digital effects supervisor)
   
   
   
2. Bee Movie (2007) (head of effects)
3. Over the Hedge (2006) (head of effects)
4. Madagascar (2005) (visual effects lead)
5. Shrek 2 (2004) (visual effects)
6. Shrek 4-D (2003) (visual effects)
   
   ... aka Shrek 3-D (USA: DVD title)
   
7. Shrek (2001) (effects artist)

In 2005 Mahesh also won the "Global 30 under 30" award under Arts and Culture category instituted by BITSAA in recognition of thirty students or alums for their extraordinary achievements before the age of 30.

Hats off to you Sir!

Updates: Facts!

This one is going to be a regular one. 

1. 25% teams in Eureka finals (2 out of 8 teams in finals, one from Goa and another from Pilani)

2. The first book on verilog was written by a BITSian. (Mr. Yatin Trivedi, Director Industry Partnership Programs, Magma Design Automation, USA)

3. The two indians on the 50 topmost connected people on Linked in: BITSians. :)

4. Ipv6 standard developed at BITS-Pilani.

5. Only college in India to have not agreed to reservations based on caste! BITS only entertains reservations based on Merit!

6. The first online examinations in India: BITSAT.

7. The admission selectivity is around 2%.

8. The Entrepreneurship Cell, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is one of the Top-5 such cells in India.

9. Companies like Onida, Tanishq, Amkette found by BITSians (Full list will be up soon!).

10. ISB topper for this 2008: BITSian, Chitra Raghunath (http://www.isb.edu/gradday2008/ScholarsofExcellence.shtml)

More to come...

More about Goldman Sachs Leaders

To read more:

http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/NewsModule/detail_page.aspx?id=214

Goldman Sachs Foundation conducts the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program with the motive to train and develop tomorrows educators, policy makers, business leaders, research scientists, social entrepreneurs, and other professionals and to create an international network through which they can share ideas, work collaboratively, and begin to change the world, together. In this regard, the Institute of International Education (IIE), in partnership with educational organizations in selected countries, conducted an annual international competition at 100 top-ranked universities in about 19 countries. Initially, the foundation named 150 Goldman Sachs Global Leaders, Class of 2008 from the world. They were further interviewed for the next level to select a group of fiften (from 75 all over the world) to receive an all-expense-paid trip to represent the group at the Global Leadership Institute in New York City in July 2008.

Last two years

100 universities --- 1 BITS Pilani

300 winners      --- 10 from BITS

The universities are allowed to nominate maximum 10 students, i.e., an yield rate of 50%, if BITS nominated 10 each year! Wow!

Congratulations to Srikumar, Rachit, M Harsha Vardhan and Anantha Padmanabhan! :)

PS-II list out

233 companies registered for provinding internships (Practice School) to BITSians.

Surprise Entrants

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Dreamworks, USA. (Wow!)

Insead, Singapore (Finally Infineon, Singapore guys will have lots of company!)

Stipend has increased for a lot of companies with the highest in India being Rs. 30000 (by infinera) for BE and Rs. 35000 (by Cisco) for Higher Degree Students. The highest stipend outside India is by Insead, France - 1440 Euros followed closely by Cypress Semiconductors - 3000$. Dreamworks has yet not released the stipend amount (Which I guess will more than the others)

Way to go Mighty BITSians!