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Rahul (he/him)

Education

  • MA in Society and Culture 2022-2024
    Humanities and Social Sciences Discipline
    IIT Gandhinagar
     

  • B.Tech in Biotechnology 2017-2021
    Biosciences and Bioengineering Department
    IIT Guwahati

    Grade: 8.11 / 10

    Thesis:     Investigating Mechanistic Pathways of GTPase Centric Conflict Systems in Multicellular Bacterial Species

Experience

  • Decision Analytics Associate at ZS Associates May 2021 - July 2022
    A management consulting job where I analysed telemetry data with heuristic frameworks and design thinking to create actionable business insights for the second largest Cloud Computing Client in the world.

    (In simpler words, I used Excel, PowerBI and Powerpoint to tell data oriented narratives to very fancy people)

Theatre
Experience

  • The Museum of Extremely Ordinary Things (March 2022)
    Writer/Director/Actor

  • Doosri Galti (Oct - Dec 2019)
    Actor ("Dilip")

  • Chuhal (April 2019)
    Director/Actor

  • Baqi Itihas (Jan 2019)
    Actor ("Nikhil")

  • Kharashein (Oct - Dec 2018)
    Director/Actor ("Yaseen")

  • Loev
    Writer/Director/Actor (July 2018)

  • The Play That Goes Wrong (April 2018)
    Actor ("Charles Haversham")

  • Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai (Nov - Dec 2017)
    Actor ("Ponkshe")

Fellowships

  • Arizona State University Summer Research Fellowship (March 2020)
     

  • MIT Design, Technology and Social Innovation Workshop Participation Fellowship (January 2020)
     

  • IIT Guwahati Merit-cum-Means Scholarship (2020-21)

Presentations

  • Break a leg: A Workshop on creating unpretentious experimental theatre
    Hosted by Xpressions-IIT Guwahati (June 2022)
     

  • Designing a low cost portable kiln for small scale pottery communities
    A guest lecture for SRISTI Summer School 2021
     

  • Eliminating the need for user-defined gap penalties in sequence alignment
    A Conference Presentation; Society of Mathematical Biology 2020

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