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Astika Gupta, CEO and Founder of The Product Seat, is a distinguished alumnus of UC…
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Technical paper on “Solar Tracker”
Presented a technical paper on “Solar Tracker” in which a microcontroller driven solar tracker is used to enhance the efficiency of the energy generated from the solar panels by aligning itself in the direction of the Sun throughout the day. I presented it in inter-collegiate technical paper presentation competitions where it was awarded as the “Best Project Idea” twice.
Courses
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Applied Behavioral Economics for Information Systems
INFO 232
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Data Analytics
INFO 296A
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Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure
INFO 206
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Information Law and Policy
INFO 205
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Information Organization and Retrieval
INFO 202
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Information Visualization and Presentation
INFO 247
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Management in Information Intensive Companies
INFO 225
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Needs and Usability Assessment
INFO 214
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Power and Politics
EW 254.1
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Product Management Essentials
IEOR 186
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Quantitative Research Methods for Information Systems and Management
INFO 271B
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Social and Organizational issues of information
INFO 203
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Teaching Assistance Practicum
INFO 375
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Technology Entrepreneurship
IEOR 191
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UX Design
INFO 190 / DES INV 190
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User Interface Design and Development
INFO 213
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Visual Storytelling
INFO 290
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Web Architecture
INFO 253
Projects
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Happy2Help, PLAY Hackjam - Winner
Designed a virtual reality interface and business model to empower tetraplegics to connect with their communities and find meaningful jobs that utilize their skills.
Presented it to founders & CEOs of other VR companies at the PLAY Conference 2015 in San Francisco.Other creatorsSee project -
Movies and Awards
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Skills involved: Data visualization, Data analysis, Coding in Javascript
Tools involved: Tableau, D3.js
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pH5UV8c_YQ&feature=youtu.be
Summary: The goal was to create a fun and interactive tool that allows movie enthusiasts to play around with the different visualizations to explore and find out more about their favorite movies,
movie stars and directors present in the IMDB and academy awards dataset.
Some ideas that movie…Skills involved: Data visualization, Data analysis, Coding in Javascript
Tools involved: Tableau, D3.js
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pH5UV8c_YQ&feature=youtu.be
Summary: The goal was to create a fun and interactive tool that allows movie enthusiasts to play around with the different visualizations to explore and find out more about their favorite movies,
movie stars and directors present in the IMDB and academy awards dataset.
Some ideas that movie lovers could explore or discover are if there is any correlation
between the movie IMDB score and budget of their favorite movies or actors and
number of academy awards that those movies have been nominated/won, movie
genres and award winning actors and director pairing with award winning actors.Other creatorsSee project -
Bazar
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Conceptualized, designed and built a mobile application for micro-entrepreneurs running home grown business and SMEs to showcase their products to their customers without having the need to build their own website.
Other creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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The National Society for Leadership and Success
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Recognized as a distinguished alum by UC Berkeley and nominated to be a member of the prestigious National society for leadership and success
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Dr. James R Chen Award- Honourable Mention for the Masters degree capstone project
UC Berkeley School of Information
Certificate awarded for the Dr. James R. Chen award for Best Project
Capstone project name: Bazar
Description: Many micro and small business owners use technologically inadequate workarounds like sending product pictures via WhatsApp to market their products. This increases operational inefficiency and is highly cumbersome as chat applications like WhatsApp are not designed for this purpose. Bazar is an intentionally designed solution to a carefully articulated problem faced by…Certificate awarded for the Dr. James R. Chen award for Best Project
Capstone project name: Bazar
Description: Many micro and small business owners use technologically inadequate workarounds like sending product pictures via WhatsApp to market their products. This increases operational inefficiency and is highly cumbersome as chat applications like WhatsApp are not designed for this purpose. Bazar is an intentionally designed solution to a carefully articulated problem faced by these microentrepreneurs.
Project page: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/projects/2017/bazar
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First Place in the PLAY Hackathon, 2015
PLAY
Won the First place in the PLAY Hackathon, 2015 : Developed a plan called 'Happy2Help' to use virtual reality technology and tools to empower tetraplegics by making it easier for them to connect with their communities and find meaningful jobs that utilize their skills from the comfort of their homes. Conducted research, created personas, paper & low fidelity prototypes.
Presented this plan at the PLAY Conference held in San Francisco. Audience included founders, CEOs and VPs of various…Won the First place in the PLAY Hackathon, 2015 : Developed a plan called 'Happy2Help' to use virtual reality technology and tools to empower tetraplegics by making it easier for them to connect with their communities and find meaningful jobs that utilize their skills from the comfort of their homes. Conducted research, created personas, paper & low fidelity prototypes.
Presented this plan at the PLAY Conference held in San Francisco. Audience included founders, CEOs and VPs of various virtual reality companies. -
Certificate of Appreciation
Relief India Trust
Received a certificate of appreciation from Relief India Trust for my voluntary contribution towards health and welfare of children belonging to families below the poverty line.
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Certificate for Outstanding Contribution : Leader of the Pune Development Center
Infosys
Leader of the development center for conducting product based research:
Led a team of 20 selected members as the ‘Leader’ of the development center to conduct product based research in order to come up with innovative ideas that help global enterprises realize rapid and sustainable savings in indirect spend while providing significant business benefits across the Source-to-Pay (S2P) life cycle.
Awarded a certificate for outstanding contribution for the leadership and management qualities…Leader of the development center for conducting product based research:
Led a team of 20 selected members as the ‘Leader’ of the development center to conduct product based research in order to come up with innovative ideas that help global enterprises realize rapid and sustainable savings in indirect spend while providing significant business benefits across the Source-to-Pay (S2P) life cycle.
Awarded a certificate for outstanding contribution for the leadership and management qualities displayed in 2012.
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English
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Hindi
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Forbes Coaches Council
Contributor and Official Member
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The National Society for Leadership and Success
Official Member
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