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"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do." -Steve Jobs
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Picture: AlphaFold courtesy Deepmind and Washington Post
DeepMind, a U.K.-based firm that is part of Alphabet, has developed an artificial intelligence and machine learning system that can predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins, decoding the amino acids that make up each protein. Last year, the system had 350,000 entries. Then on July 28, DeepMind co-founder and chief executive Demis Hassabis announced the expansion of the company’s database of folded proteins to more than 200 million — nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, including those in humans, plants, bacteria, animals and other organisms — and that the company is making them publicly available and free, accessible with no more effort than a Google search.
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The database is called AlphaFold, and it is the equivalent of a James Webb Space Telescope for biology, providing astounding new visuals of a world beyond.
AlphaFold is a boon for BioEngineering and will help advance our understanding of human biology and preventing and curing diseases.
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ASEI Celebrates India@75 with great fervor | |
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One of the founding missions for ASEI was to strengthen Indo-US technical collaboration and relationships. In the spirit of "Aazadi ka Amrit Mahotsav", we participated in a wide ranging celebrations and activities as independent India turned 75 !
Read a tribute to India
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Silicon Valley: We had a highly engaged Indian Ambassador H.E. Taranjit Singh Sandhu visiting & meeting with community members from the Indian diaspora in the US west coast recently. ASEI members thank Consul General Dr TV Nagendra Prasad and Rajesh Naik for the outreach and support.
It was wonderful to meet and listen to Amb. Sandhu discussing Indo-US relations, innovation opportunities, education and knowledge partnerships including in healthcare, clean energy, infrastructure and cybersecurity at Stanford University
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Glimpses of India Day parades, gatherings and events with ASEI presence hosted in Fremont, by FOG, Chicago by Consul GeneralAmit Kumar and Indian community in Novi,MI are here. Read more
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Pictures: ASEI at the Independence Day events in Stanford & Fremont, CA, Chicago,IL and Novi,MI | |
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"Success is not what you have achieved for yourself. It’s about the lives you’ve touched and elevated along the way!"
We are very proud of NASA's Dr Kavyya Manyapu for her unrelenting spirit of exploration and adventure. She's a past ASEI CERP Awardee and was a speaker at ASEI's 34th convention and Aerospace Symposium in January '22
Along with her climbing partner & Project Shakthi co-lead Poorna Malavath (pictured together above) , she recently successfully made the FirstAscent of one of India’s Virgin (unclimbed and unnamed) 6000 meter peaks in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas).
Kudos & keep rising to greater heights Kavya!
Read more about her project Shakthi and this expedition in her post here .
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The National Association of Asian American Professionals is a non-profit organization of over 30,000 professionals that cultivates and empowers Asian & Pacific Islander leaders through leadership development, professional networking, and community service.
In 2008, NAAAP established the NAAAP100 Awards to recognize exemplary leaders in the Asian community. The awards, presented annually at the gala of NAAAP’s annual national leadership convention, are to recognize influential leaders who have made significant contributions to their profession and the Asian community.
(Picture above: Speaking at their 40th Annual Convention in Washington DC on Aug 13, 2022, Piyush Malik received the NAAAP100 award which is their highest/lifetime achievement category.)
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Piyush Malik honored with NAAAP100 Award!
Previous awardees include former Ambassador to China Gary Locke, former Canadian Senator Vivienne Poy, activist Dr. Grace Lee Boggs, Pritzker prize-winning architect I.M. Pei, Fable CEO & former Cisco and Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior, Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineata, Hon. Congressman Mike Honda and playwright David Henry Hwang.
Piyush is only the 3rd person of Indian origin to be honored with this prestigious recognition and ASEI is thrilled with it and sends hearty felicitations on yet another feather in his cap.
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Engineering Tales with ASEI
Engineer of the year 2013 Padmasree Warrior
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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 in Washington DC
On 13th August 2022, ASEI in partnership with SWE conducted an event at the University of Maryland, College Park to discuss obstacles and challenges women face while taking up senior and executive level roles.
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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
(Picture: ASEI Washington DC chapter board with all speakers and ASEI National President)
Read full report here
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Pack a Box Community Event
On 18th August 2022, ASEI organized Pack-A-Box volunteer event at the Orange County Food Bank in Garden Grove. The SoCal team helped pack essential food for senior citizen as community service.
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Picture: Sanjay Dalal, Ashish Patel Vrunda Patel Mahesh Reddy Jay J Patel Kalika Gupta Raj Kamdar and many more volunteers .
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MentorConnect Fireside Chat
We had a wonderful fireside chat between Rophin Paul, CEO Wipro Pari Robotics and ASEI Silicon Valley Board member Dr Preetha Ram as part of the ASEI MentorConnect program on Saturday, Aug 27, 2022
Divya Ashok, VP of Strategy and Innovation at Salesforce kicked off the meeting by sharing the vision of ASEI and its programs. She shared details about MentorConnect as one of the core focus programs of ASEI, which serves as a platform to connect our members to help each other as both mentors and mentees in their professional success.
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ASEI Partners with IIT Bay Area Leadership Conference | |
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Conferences are usually avenues for networking but during the pandemic most events went virtual and we started to miss the camaraderie. As the world is opening up, slowly in-person events are making a comeback and ASEI Silicon Valley chapter had an opportunity to partner with the IIT Bay area alumni association on Aug 27th for a full day of learning and networking.
What value did it offer? Well, if you combine learning cutting- edge topics along with meeting industry colleagues and reconnecting with college alumni networks all in one, then that event becomes exponentially valuable.
Taglined “Reshaping the World in Transition” this event brought together over 50 speakers - some of them very well known names in the industry and over 700 attendees. At the event, the ASEI was represented by Piyush Malik, Surbhi Kaul and student member Nidhi Mathihali in addition to awardees Jyoti Bansal (2020) and Shalini Govil Pai (2021)
Read the insider scoop and key takeaways in this candid blog by ASEI President
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ASEI University Connect - Networking & Career Fair at University campuses in California, Texas and beyond
Sept 19th, 2022
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September 18,2022 : Golf Outing | |
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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.
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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. At the 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 -
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US has another shortage on its hand: Opportunities for Electronics and Semiconductors Engineers. Read more
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Heartening to see the former Presidents of ASEI Washington DC chapter continue their thought leadership activities. Recently, Dr Ajay Kothari who is an Aerospace R&D company CEO talked at University of Maryland on Energy from Thorium and Astha Verma Chief Vulnerability management at DHS participated in "Why the World Wide Web is like the Wild Wild West" cybersecurity panel discussion
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