Somik Raha
Pursuing Ph.d. in Decision & Risk Analysis, Co-founder of Swayam
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.stanford.edu/~somik |
| Industries: | Education, Financial, Information Technology |
| Location: | Stanford, CA |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Interested in: | Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Getting press, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
FEATURED STARTUP
Swayam
Swayam
Swayam's mission is to remove the financial barrier to education.
- Startup type: Competition Entry
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Somik Raha is a Ph.D. student in Decision & Risk Analysis in the Management Science & Engineering program at Stanford University, within which he also earned a Masters in Organization Behavior and Strategy. His doctoral dissertation focuses on Private Police using mixed methods research (qualitative and quantitative, descriptive and normative). He has been a teaching assistant for decision analysis classes at Stanford. His professional experience includes designing Loan Decision Systems for Nucleus Software, conducting Global Teamwork research at Intel Corporation, coaching teams in Extreme Programming (XP) as an Industrial Logic coach and designing mobile gateways and collaboration technology for Kizna Corporation in Tokyo. Somik earned a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore Institute of Technology in 1999. His decision analysis and system engineering experiences are key assets for Swayam's management team.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net |
| Position: | Founder and Lead Contributor of a popular java html parser |
| Employer: | http://sangam.sourceforge.net |
| Position: | Founder and Lead Contributor of a pair-programming plugin for Eclipse |
| Employer: | Nucleus Software & Exports Ltd. |
| Position: | Decision and Risk Analyst |
| Time period: | June 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | · Modelled credit risk and operational risk for loan approval
· Modelled business strategy decision on pricing new products · Modelled software process adoption decision · Modelled HR recruitment decision |
| Employer: | Intel Corp |
| Position: | Global Teamwork Researcher |
| Time period: | June 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | · Implemented interventions to improve human visibility, mitigate effects of time difference, negotiate over
common currency in planning sessions, and brainstorm in large groups · Received three awards over the course of the internship and an “outstanding intern” rating · Created virtual brainstorming tool that is still in use |
| Employer: | Industrial Logic, Inc. |
| Position: | Extreme Programmer & Coach |
| Time period: | November 2002 - August 2004 |
| Description: | · Coached two teams at Nielsen Media Research Center, Florida to be agile.
· Taught Industrial Logic’s workshops on Extreme Programming, Design Patterns and Testing & Refactoring · Interviewed in Better Software Magazine’s feature story “Don’t just break software, Make Software” (Aug 2004) as the coach of Nielsen’s SOLAR team and in Mar Cover Story (http://www.stanford.edu/~so...) |
| Employer: | Kizna Corporation |
| Position: | System Architect & Product Manager |
| Time period: | September 1999 - September 2002 |
| Description: | · Developed Photoboard and Mobile Gateway, first Japanese mobile photo blogging platform
· Product Manager for Photoboard, eCollab, Kizna’s browser based multi-lingual classroom chat program |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2006 |
| Degree: | Mgmt Sc. & Engg, MSc |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Degree: | PhD |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | · Chih-wei Ho, Raha Somik, Gehringer Edward, Williams Laurie, Sangam – A Distributed Pair Programming Plug-in for Eclipse, OOPSLA 2004
· Raha Somik, James Sojan, Vaidyanathan Vidya, B. G. Lakshmi, C. V. Jawahar, Design Patterns for a Computer Vision Toolkit, Emerging Technologies for the Network Era in Eighth Annual Symposium (1999), IEEE Bangalore |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | · Philosophy
· Yoga |
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Deepti Chatti
Environmental engineer, education startup co-founder. Education for all and protecting the environment are key to a sustainable life on the planet. Interested in using microfinance as a tool to effect positive change in society.
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Avish Dahiya
Global Software & New Media Entreprenuer President, DNA Global Network Inc. (Global Sourcing, Program Management, Management Consulting & Research)
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