Astika Gupta

Astika Gupta

New York, New York, United States
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About

Astika Gupta, CEO and Founder of The Product Seat, is a distinguished alumnus of UC…

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Experience

  • The Product Seat Graphic

    The Product Seat

    United States

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    New York, United States

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    Menlo Park, California, United States

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    Redmond, Washington

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    Milpitas

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    San Jose, California

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    Pune, Maharashtra

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    Pune Area, India

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Sukarya Graphic

    Goodwill Ambassador

    Sukarya

    - Present 7 years 5 months

    Human Rights

  • Chief Adult Mentor

    Youth Board - Ravishing Women organization

    - 3 years

    Children

  • AmPowering Graphic

    Ambassador

    AmPowering

    - Present 8 years 5 months

    Social Services

  • UNICEF USA Graphic

    UNICEF Unite member

    UNICEF USA

    - Present 7 years 8 months

    Children

  • Support for kids

    Relief India Trust

    - 3 years 8 months

    Children

Publications

  • 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

  • Applied Behavioral Economics for Information Systems

    INFO 232

  • Data Analytics

    INFO 296A

  • Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure

    INFO 206

  • Information Law and Policy

    INFO 205

  • Information Organization and Retrieval

    INFO 202

  • Information Visualization and Presentation

    INFO 247

  • Management in Information Intensive Companies

    INFO 225

  • Needs and Usability Assessment

    INFO 214

  • Power and Politics

    EW 254.1

  • Product Management Essentials

    IEOR 186

  • Quantitative Research Methods for Information Systems and Management

    INFO 271B

  • Social and Organizational issues of information

    INFO 203

  • Teaching Assistance Practicum

    INFO 375

  • Technology Entrepreneurship

    IEOR 191

  • UX Design

    INFO 190 / DES INV 190

  • User Interface Design and Development

    INFO 213

  • Visual Storytelling

    INFO 290

  • Web Architecture

    INFO 253

Projects

  • 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 creators
    See 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 creators
    See 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 creators
    See project
  • NetwrkIt

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    Prototyped and built a mobile application to help attendees at conferences and career fairs network effectively and efficiently with the relevant people and other attendees of interest by quickly locating them, thus saving time and effort.

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  • CalCentral

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    Designed and built a budget tool for UC Berkeley students that aggregates university data with student’s personal financial data to help them plan their finances and become more financially adroit.
    The tool is being integrated into the university’s central online system.

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Honors & Awards

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Forbes Coaches Council

    Contributor and Official Member

    - Present
  • The National Society for Leadership and Success

    Official Member

    - Present

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