Experience
Founder - HOLOFIL, Shypezi
HOLOFIL and Shypezi are two startups I founded after PhD between 2016 to 2019.
International mentor
Startupbootcamp FashionTech Milan Acceleration program to select top 10 startups from top 20 from a worldwide 1200+ applications. An active mentor to some of the selected 10 startups in the batch of 2019. List of startups here.
Brand Ambassador, Science Park Business Organization, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Founder - ScienceParkCreatives
Science Park Creatives is a group of artistic + scientifically minded students / researchers / entrepreneurs to promote entrepreneurship / social Entrepreneurship and related topics on Science Park Amsterdam, Netherlands Campus. Covered in the news here.
www.amsterdamsciencepark.nl/connecting-boundless-minds/mrunal-gawade/
Organizer / Coordinator
How to promote Scientific Research in bright high school students in Netherlands? I am organizer / coordinator of related activities such as conducting guest lectures at Schools / organizing visit of school students for Scientific demos of different research groups at CWI, Amsterdam/ creating scientific demos myself.
At present we are interacting with the high School Metis Montessori Lyceum on an experimental basis.
(Early stage co-founder) / Consultant to Splashgain Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Early stage co-founder for a very short time at Splashgain a web 2.0 product company, specialized in leveraging use of Information Technology in Indian education sector. It makes life of students across India easier by providing an efficient, online admission system to any institute across India. Check www.ePravesh.com our successful product in the Indian education e-commerce sector since 2009.
Crowdfunding consultancy
Designed and published the photo-book "The World Collage" through crowd-funding on Indiegogo platform. More than 100 copies were distributed to raise around $4000 from 130 people. Check the campaign to order your copy.
I would be happy to provide consulting on various aspects of crowd-funding.
PhD Candidate - CWI, Amsterdam / MonetDB.org
Supervised by Professor Martin Kersten, towards thesis on "Multi-core query parallelism in Column-stores". Thesis comprises of 5 publications in top tier database conferences including VLDB, EDBT, DaMoN, DBTest.
Masters Candidate - University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Readings in operating systems, advanced operating systems, readings in storage systems, implementation of database systems, theory of database systems, multimedia systems, networking, programming languages, analysis of algorithms, Technology benefiting humanity.
IT consultant (Perceptual Science Laboratory)- Assisted Professor Dominic Massaro.
Teaching assistant- "Introduction to Computer Science" for grading home-work, exams, lab-assignments, conducting lab sessions, and assisting in exam management.
Internships (Silicon Valley, USA)
Oracle Labs (PhD) Sept 2014 - Feb 2015
Supervised by Nipun Agarwal, towards exploration of Just-In-Time compiled plans in Oracle Labs software-hardware co-designed RAPID accelerator query execution engine.
Agami Systems (Masters)
Data Domain (Masters)
June 2008
July 2008
Industry
Teaching