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| durga p pandeyMy name is durga pandey and I'm a Technical Marketing Engineer at Clearwell Systems and Co-founder/President at Fast Forward India.I work in the product management group at Clearwell where my work is a mix of product design, programming, sales support, and technical documentation. The most important things I have learnt at Clearwell are "getting things done" and understanding the customer perspective. Clearwell is a great company, with the most amazing people and company culture. I earned an MS in the Viral Communications group at the MIT Media Lab, where I was also a Samsung fellow. My research was focussed on decentralized, viral architectures. In my Masters thesis, I describe Uniplug, an architecture for diffusing software inventions on a campus network. I also worked on an ad-hoc wireless conferencing system called FluidVoice. The fundamental motivation behind FluidVoice is to exploit the shared nature of radio and utilize it as an asset rather than a bug. As an undergraduate, I worked on a cognitive approach to congestion control in Delay Tolerant Networks and presented a cognition based multilevel congestion likelihood detector in my dissertation. I was a Reuters Digital Vision fellow at Stanford University for the 2004-05 academic year. Stanford was a transformational experience, where I met innumerable thinkers turned social doers. In 2006, I teamed up with college friends Jitendra Mohan and Shulabh Gupta and started Fast Forward India, a non-profit that helps college students in India launch non-profit startups. FFI has been a success in Dhanbad, and is being scaled to other parts of India. Current research interests:
I live in the utterly gorgeous San Francisco bay area. |