August Newsletter

Year 2022 Issue #8

"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street" -Doug Linder

Data Analytics & Storage on the Cloud - Part 2

Picture: Surbhi Paul Speaking at a recent Pure Storage conference followed by images of antique Storage products over the decades

(Part 1 titled "Data warehousing on the cloud" in this series appeared last month in this Article)

From magnetic tapes to 8 inch floppy disks to hard disks to flash memory to the cloud - the world of storage has come a long way in the past 5 decades.

In this part 2 in the article series on Data Analytics and Storage, here’s a capsule size overview of the "Past, Present and Future of Storage" by ASEI Silicon Valley Board member Surbhi Paul,

Recent Events

MentorConnect with ASEI Silicon Valley Startups

Picture: ASEI at the FalconX Accelerator with Dr Ashish Mehra, Vida Patil, BV Jagadeesh and Piyush Malik

Great to see engineering entrepreneurship blossoming in places beyond the Silicon Valley thanks to angel investors and mentors who freely give back to build the startup ecosystem.

We had a great time interacting with entrepreneurs gathered from all over India converged at FalconX Accelerator and getting mentored by successful serial entrepreneurs like Raju Reddy, BV Jagadeesh, Murali Chirala, Raju Indukuri, Krishna Yarlagadda JP(JayaPrasad) Vejendla and a host of other "angels"

Read the full report from the July 29th event here

Celebrating our Gurus and Teachers

ASEI Celebrated Gurupurnima - a day to remember mentors and teachers via sharing a story from IIT Kanpur Archives on July 13th.

NCWIT Educator/Mentor Award for ASEI

The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is the farthest-reaching network of change leaders focused on advancing innovation by correcting underrepresentation in computing. The formal or informal educators and mentors are selected and recognized for enabling these underrepresented high schoolers.

Piyush Malik is 2022 NCWIT AiC Educator Award recipient!

Selected from hundreds of nominees from 43 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and Canada. The AiC Educator Award identifies exemplary formal and informal educators and mentors who play a pivotal role promoting gender equity in students to explore their interest in computing and technology.

Building a secure future amidst Cybersecurity threats

Cybersecurity is No Longer Optional!

Inspired by Department of Homeland Security's CISA chief Astha Verma's session during our recent Cybersecurity Summit, here are musings by our student member Syna Sharma

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Upcoming Events

Join Padmasree Warrior in your reading journey with her featured club on Fable for free to learn about her career journey as well as leadership tips.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

We are super excited to bring you this electrifying Q&A session with industry-leading panelists on Aug 13 at University of Maryland. This event is focused to foster networking with such women and understand the barriers women face when pursuing career advancement and growth.

We are proud to host these women trailblazers who have paved their own way and successfully emerged in multiple subfields of engineering.

We hope with such events we come closer to shattering the glass ceiling and discuss elements that need to be dismantled to make the technology world a better place for women and men alike

ASEI University Connect - Networking & Career Fair at University campuses in California, Texas and beyond on Sept 19th, 2022

Stay tuned as we bring together a multi-campus simulcast of an exciting career fair preparedness event for university students on different campuses across California and beyond as part of our University Connect program.

Youth Corner

Inspiring ASEI Student Member Taarini Kaur Dang

We congratulate silicon valley high schooler Taarini Kaur Dang for all her great work and accolades she's been getting at such a young age of 18!

The youngest recipient of the “Young Indian-American Award”, the Indian ambassador to the US in 2018, Taarini Kaur Dang has a keen understanding on what it means to be an Indian-American entrepreneur.

At the age of 13 she published her book, The Young Aspiring Entrepreneur,

As a result of her work, Taarini has been featured as a speaker in elite conferences such as the Google Launchpad Female Founders Summit, Collision Conference, TiECon, and more, often as the youngest speaker in attendance. Her accolades don’t rest there, however, as she has also been the youngest person to receive the Forbes “Top 100 Women in Finance in India” title and has been featured on channels such as the BBC, Bloomberg News, and Mercury News, and NASDAQ.

Aditya Guthey spoke with her recently and here is the blog post on the conversation

Youtube link replay

Replay of conversation on clubhouse.

Srini Vemula is an edtech entrepreneur and an ASEI Silicon Valley Life member who published this article in Higher Education Digest and can now be accessed by our members here.

Importance of RoboArt for Children of Digital Age

RobArt is a way to create mathematical art with programming logic which generates curiosity in the minds of kids. With the help of Robo turtle, kids can design anything that they can imagine and can build small games which will enhance their creativity, logical thinking, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills as well.

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Developing STEM skills in kids through games:-

Roblox vs Minecraft vs Unity

The gaming industry has evolved and so have the gaming patterns.

In the present gaming world, three unique platforms are stirring up a storm. Roblox, Minecraft, and Unity have become well-known names in the gaming industry. To play games is one thing and to build a game from the ground up is another.

These platforms help users to build their own world of fun on which other users can come and play. This provides a space for gamers to not only test their gaming skills but also game development skills which leads to cognitive and STEM skill building.

This blog from our partner Moonpreneur helps us understand the differences between these 3 popular gaming platforms

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Do you know any students (middle school, high school, or undergraduate college) who could benefit from volunteering and earning service hour credits?

Look no further as ASEI is now accredited to offer Volunteer Service hours and Presidential awards depending on the level of student’s contributions and involvement.

At ASEI, we stand for youth empowerment and career progression. It is with this intention of matching corporates' internship needs with our undergraduate and postgraduate student members as a free service to our community, that we partnered with Moonpreneur. To mark one year of the relationship, CEO Alok Jain announced in a video message that they are giving huge discounts and a chance to get a paid internship to the ASEI family.

Click here to apply for internships -

Social Media Spotlight

Dr. Mahantesh Hiremath served as the first-ever Asian or Indian President of a premier engineering society in the world. He just completed 22 years of involvement and his 2-year term as President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Hearty Congrats on your feat!

Kudos to Urmi Samant, a student at Monta Vista High school for winning the United Nations-USA ambassador award. Sumant teaches young first-generation Americans to practice traditional Indian values that will give them a strong foundation in life management.

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Guru Madhavan of the National Academy of Engineering and Dr. Azad Madni for winning the IEEE George F Mcclure citation of honor. We are so happy for you!

Salute to all the scientists and engineers especially these 3 of Indian origin: Hashima Hasan, Kalyani Sukhatme, and Kartik Sheth w ho along with others at NASA have made the James Webb Telescope a household name and a success story to inspire future generations . ASEI friend Dr. Ranga Chary from Caltech gives his impressions on the success and potential of this $10B Telescope in a recent ASEI blog

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