The JEE toppers from 2000 to 2005 and what they are doing now. Every year only one person gets the coveted title of being the topper of one of toughest exams in the world. For the next few months after the results, all cameras chase them and their story is told repeatedly to every aspirant so much so that it becomes a story of legends. Achieving this is usually just the first step towards a successful career. I will walk you through the journeys of some toppers and what they have achieved so far in their lives, ever since they came into the limelight for being the special ones. Many of the info here have been picked up blogs and posts of similar nature. 2000 – IIT JEE AIR 1 – Nitin Gupta Nitin joined IIT Kanpur in July 2014 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bio-engineering. He graduated from the Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur and eventually went on to study biology at University of California, San Diego. He plans to set up a cognitive neuroscience lab here at IITK. He is an inspiration to many who want to contribute back to the educational system in India. 2001 – IIT JEE AIR 1 - Arvind Thiagarajan After completing his graduation from IIT Madras in Computer Science, Arvind went to MIT for his PhD. He has written numerous research papers in the area of mobile computing. During his PhD, he interned with Yahoo and Google which are the best companies in Silicon Valley for any computer science researcher. With 42 patents to his credit, he founded a company in 2011 in mobile computing. He is currently working with Amazon as a research scientist. 2002 – IIT JEE AIR 1 - Dungara Choudhary Dungara, who is currently in San Francisco, joined IIT Kanpur in Computer Science with a thesis in distributed parallel architecture. He did an internship at Honeywell and upon graduating joined AirTight Networks where he quickly rose to become a Team Lead in a brief span. He is currently working in Oracle as a Principal Member of Technical Staff. 2003 – IIT JEE AIR 1 - Shashank Dwivedi Shashank is from Bhilai and has been a role model for IIT JEE aspirants from the city, which has since then produced number of top rankers. He completed his B.Tech in computer science from IIT Bombay and has completed his masters from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2004 – IIT JEE AIR 1 - Sushant Sachdeva Sushant is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, Sushant graduated from Princeton University in 2013. He has done multiple research internships at Toyota, Microsoft and ETH Zurich. He has published numerous research papers in prestigious conferences throughout the world. He has competed his B.Tech from IIT Bombay and his research interest lies in algorithms. 2005 – IIT JEE AIR 1 – Piyush Srivastava Piyush is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. Prior to joining Caltech, he did his post graduation from UC Berkeley. He has had 3 stints as a research intern at Microsoft in 2009, 2011 and 2013. He is a graduate of computer science from IIT Kanpur and is currently working in theoretical computer science. If you find their journeys inspirational and aspire to achieve the same, then it’s time to take your exam preparation to the next level. Every time you feel bogged down, think of these achievers who you want to emulate and approach your studies with a renewed zeal. Also remember that the key is to work on your own. Being a teacher I can tell you this. Dont use a teacher as a crutch. If you are completely teacher dependent then you will find it impossible to clear any entrance test. Use teacher as a guide and mentor. Especially for students in Jaipur and Kota. Remember that in colleges you are on your own. So learn to be independent and take the help of teachers only when you feel you cant do without it. Train YOUR mind not that off the teachers.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:46:31 +0000
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