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Yatin Sethi

Indian, 24, Engineer by education, Designer by profession, Social Activist by passion. Leads a couple of NGOs in Bangalore.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://yatinsethi.com
Industries: Education, Information Technology, Internet
Skills: Business, Computer Engineering, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Human-Computer Interaction, Languages, Management, Marketing, Product design, Web design
Location: Bangalore, India
Groups: BASES, BASES Social E-Challenge Alumni Network, E-Challenge Competition 2008, Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, Global Social Venture Competition, MIT GSW 2007, MIT GSW 2008, Oxford Entrepreneurs, Oxford Hub, Social e-challenge Competition 2008, SSE Ventures , ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Employment opportunities, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Growing my group, Helping friends, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company
Tags: design, Philanthropy, Social Innovation
Schools: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

FULL BIO

User Design Researcher with interests in social innovations and startups. Currently working with Pankhudi Foundation and doSomething.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Pankhudi Foundation
Position: Co-founder, Activity Coordinator - Bangalore Chapter
Time period: February 2006 - Present
Description: Pankhudi Foundation aims at working towards benefitting under-priviledged children. It operates in several cities in India including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai.

(More details at - http://www.pankhudifoundati...)

Employer: Do Something
Position: Volunteer, Coordinator, Director
Time period: February 2006 - Present
Description: doSomething is a social innovation organization founded to help people convert their ideas into reality and achieve meaningful impact. Overall, the objective is to nurture social enterprise.

The current project "The Missing Half" is an educational kit which uses ingenious but proven activities to inculcate different facets of leadership in students.

(More details at: http://www.dosomething.in)

Employer: Hewlett-Packard Research Labs
Position: Design Researcher
Time period: November 2005 - April 2007
Description: • Designed innovative and user-friendly data logging tools to quickly record insights during long in-depth interviews and to make the process interactive for the user.
• Moderated focus groups to capture insights and feedback on various design concepts.
• Developed cost-effective user-recruiting techniques for interviews by performing extensive secondary research.
• Outsourced different tasks of a project and motivated the agencies to deliver the same within timelines.

Activities:
• Global Citizenship – Lead and moderated of Education Grants Community as a part of HP Asia-Pacific efforts.
• CSR Activities – Initiated and organized activities being a part of HP Labs Theatre Club and on World Environment Day.

Employer: Human Factors International
Position: Design Researcher
Time period: July 2005 - Present
Description: • Organized and conducted research studies throughout India for education and mobile segments.
• Researched and analyzed the market entry strategies for a new Contextual Innovation division.
• Identified needs, cultural factors and trends that drive user intentions. This was used to design better technologies.
• Interacted with clients globally to understand their requirements for projects in different domains.

• CSR and Team-Building Activities – Lead and organized several activities like Social Awareness Week, lectures by eminent personalities and outbound learning trips.

Employer: Hewlett-Packard Research Labs
Position: Research Intern
Time period: January 2005 - June 2005
Description: Gesture Keyboard project - Design of an Indigenous Input Device for Indian languages.

• Improvised user-friendly techniques for Visual Feedback of the input device.
• Coordinated with cross-functional technical and design teams to create the software for the device.
• Conducted usability studies to evaluate the acceptance level of the device with diverse users groups.

The project won the Runner’s Up in The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards 2006 (Consumer Electronics) and finalist in NASSCOM IT Innovation Awards 2007.

Employer: Center for Knowledge Societies
Position: Research Intern
Time period: June 2004 - August 2004
Description: Learning Lab Initiative – Exploring innovative ways to promote mobile devices for education in developing countries.
• Analyzed gaming cultures of tribal communities by conducting ethnographic studies in various tribal areas.
• Illustrated and prototyped educational games to impart factual and cultural knowledge in an interactive manner.

EDUCATION

University: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Degree: Info. and Comm. Technology (ICT), BEng

INFORMATION

Awards: • Invited by i-Volunteer Bangalore to participate in discussion session on volunteering telecasted by Zee TV in Dec 2006.
• Recipient of National Cadet Corps (NCC) Scholarships for merit scores in school.
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  • Rebeca Hwang Rebeca Hwang

    Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.

  • K Peterson K Peterson

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