Current
Past
  • Student Developer at Google
  • Research Assistant (to Prof. Giorgos Cheliotis) at SMU SIS
  • Consultant at UOB SMU EA Centre
Education
  • Singapore Management University
  • Navrachana Higher Secondary School
Connections
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Industry
Computer Software

Ankit Guglani (Ankitg@gmail.com)’s Summary

Ankit Guglani (Ankitg@gmail.com)’s Specialties:

An ability and desire to creatively apply the available tools to solve problems. Possessing technical abilities across a broad range of programming languages and tools and a ability to learn quickly.


Ankit Guglani (Ankitg@gmail.com)’s Experience

  • Research Assistant (to Prof. Rajesh)

    Singapore Management University

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

    April 2008Present (1 year 8 months)

    Working with prof. Rajesh to develop context-aware mobile applications, with a university-wide testbed deployment.

    Also working on another project involving analysis of GPS data from about 70% of the nations taxis over a period of few months; resulting in millions of data points. Analysis of data involves finding dangerous, illegal and inefficient behaviours.

  • Research Assistant (to Prof. Kenneth Huang)

    Singapore Management University

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

    January 2008Present (1 year 11 months)

    Working with prof. Kenneth Huang, a research associate at MIT to study the impact of cross-jurisdictional patenting (US patents being [re]patented in China and vise-versa) on innovation and innovative capability.

  • Student

    Singapore Management University

    (Educational Institution; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2005Present (4 years )

    Just enjoying the student life ... while it lasts ...

  • Student Developer

    Google

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

    April 2008September 2008 (6 months)

    Worked for Google under the Summer of Code program on Creative Commons Project :: CC-Logger [Automation of log analysis].

    http://code.google.com/soc/2008/cc/appinfo.html?csaid=272B766E2F01CE98

  • Research Assistant (to Prof. Giorgos Cheliotis)

    SMU SIS

    (Research industry)

    November 2006August 2008 (1 year 10 months)

     Drafted a part of the research proposal for a research grant for the project “CC-Monitor”; to study the Creative Commons movement and remix culture.

     Spearheaded the data-collection and automated it using WATIR (Ruby). Consilidated information from multipe sources directly into excel. Employed VBA to extract useful information and perform basic computation.

     Helped develop a methodology to estimate total license use, presently in use by Creative Commons.

     Generated network plots for the CC-Mixter community and conducted Social Network Analysis.

  • Consultant

    UOB SMU EA Centre

    (Market Research industry)

    January 2008June 2008 (6 months)

     Leading a group of 3 to formulate, administer and analyze surveys for 4 different market segments.

     Seeking to provide insights about customer satisfaction and the appropriate brand image.

  • Student Developer

    Standard Chartered Bank, Innovation Lab

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SCBFF; Banking industry)

    September 2006February 2008 (1 year 6 months)

    Freelance student software project development, for following projects:

     Distributed Data Entry System [DDE]: Created a complete proof of concept and was involved in the production version.

     Multi-Stage Screen-Lock: a personalized security lock and logout application coded in C#

     Automated content migration from the development version to the production version for an in-house collaborative platform using Ruby.

  • Full Time Summer Intern

    Deloitte and Touché

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

    June 2006July 2006 (2 months)

     Contributed toward the formulation of vision and mission for a Major Port project.

     Researched the port sector; the major ports, their backgrounds, construction, working, mission, vision etc.

     Assisted in conducting a PASTEL study for another project dealing with implementation of Road Tax.

     Created a large set of actionable and relevant data drawn from similar projects executed on ports internationally.


Additional Information

Ankit Guglani (Ankitg@gmail.com)’s Interests:

Topics of Interest: Free culture / The culture of ownership and its impact on society. (Internet) memes, their propagation from a social psychology perspective.

Ankit Guglani (Ankitg@gmail.com)’s Groups:

Creative Commons, Apple Developers Connections

  •    Singapore Management University
  •    GSoC
  •    The Digital Movement

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