New book release–Horizons A brief blurb below: 'His jaw lies here, but he is no more. He was not his bones turned to ash. He was not his flesh melted away.’ At the first step of a promising career, Ranchor returns home to face the sobering reality of his father's demise. A railway employee prevents a young man's desperate attempt at suicide. Elsewhere, a doctor faces the harrowing prospect of facilitating euthanasia for a friend. In an idyllic city, Keshav's life is slowly engulfed by a terminal illness, and the spectre of death looms large. Written in searing prose, these stories by debut author Himanshu Asnani are a rich portrait of lives that mirror countless others. Probing and often edifying, they capture the pathos of life while offering succour to those traversing similar paths – a reminder of fiction's singular ability to lay bare life's fundamental questions.

Work Experience

• Reader (eq. to tenure-track Assistant Professor), STCS, TIFR-Mumbai, Sept ’19 - Sept ’22

• Affiliate Assitance Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW-Seattle, July ’19 - June ’ 22

• Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW-Seattle, Feb ’18 - June ’19

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mar ’17 - Mar ’19

• Lecturer, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June ’16 - August ’16

• Shikhya (now Aveti Learning), Founding Advisor, Jan ’18 - Dec ’21

• Shikhya (now Aveti Learning), Co-Founder & CEO, Jan ’16 - Dec ’17

• System Architect, DUIB IP Routers System & Technology, ERICSSON R&D, April ’14 - Feb ’16

• Engineering Intern, DUIB IP Routers System & Technology, ERICSSON R&D, June ’13 - Sept ’13

Education

• Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, GPA : 4.139, Jan. 2010 - April 2014

• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, GPA : 4.046, Sept. 2009 - June 2011

• B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, CGPA : 9.54/10 (Department Rank 4, Institute Rank 6), August 2005 - July 2009

Research Interests

• Social Psychology and Counseling

• Creative Fiction for Personal Growth

• Medieval History and Linguistics

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Information and Coding Theory

• Statistical Estimation and Inference

Academic Achievements

• Ranked 4th in IIT-JEE Main Examination and 1st in IIT-JEE Screening Examination 2005 all over India.

• Bronze Medalist at the 37th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) 2005 , Taipei, Taiwan.

• Gold Medalist in Indian National Physics Olympiad (2005) and Indian National Chemistry Olympiad (2005).

• Ranked 1st in National Science Olympiad 2004 and 2005 all over India.

Awards and Scholarships

• Named Amazon Catalyst Fellow for the year 2018 for ”DeepCode : Inventing Communication Algorithms via Artificial Intelligence”.

• Recipient of Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for the year 2014, which recognizes individuals who have, at an early age, demonstrated exceptional scientific and entrepreneurial capabilities with the potential to create significant advances in telecommunications and the Internet.

• ISIT Student Paper Award Finalist for the year 2011 in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Saint Petersburg, Russia.

• Recipient of Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

• Awarded Best Paper Award for the paper ”Scheduling with Limited Information in Wireless Systems” in MobiHoc 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

• Awarded Best B.Tech Project Award for the year 2009 in IIT Bombay.

• Awarded Bhavesh Gandhi Memorial Award for Best B.Tech Research Seminar for the year 2008 in IIT Bombay.

• Invited to First Theoretical Computing Winter School organized by the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications (ITCSC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) among 80 undergraduates from Universities in the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India.