Saket Vora
American grad student pursuing M.S. in electrical engineering at Stanford. Interested in entrepreneurship, energy, greentech, cleantech, social ventures, politics, film, traveling, data visualization, and cooking.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.saketvora.com |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Computing, Health, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Leadership, Management |
| Next step: | Hope to join or do a startup, ideally in the energy technology space |
| Location: | Stanford, CA |
| Groups: | BASES, BASES Social E-Challenge Alumni Network, E-Challenge Competition 2008, E-Challenge Competition 2009, Energy Crossroads, NCSU 2010 eGames Titan, NCSU EI eGames 2010, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010, [INACTIVE] BASES Social E-Challenge 2010, [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE] |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Sharing my projects, Starting a company |
| Tags: | data visualization, energy solutions, high tech ventures, multidisciplinary projects, social entrepreneurship |
| Schools: | North Carolina State University, Stanford University |
FEATURED STARTUP
WaterPLUS
WaterPLUS
WaterPLUS is a global social venture aimed at providing innovative point-of-use water purification systems based on germicidal ultraviolet LED technology.
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
American grad student pursuing M.S. in electrical engineering at Stanford. Interested in entrepreneurship, energy, greentech, cleantech, social ventures, politics, film, traveling, data visualization, and cooking. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, NC State University, 2007.
Co-founder of social venture WaterPLUS, which aims to develop a low cost water purification device for the developing world. Our team has entered several social business plan competitions and have won $24,000 in awards.
Co-founder and three-time race director for the Krispy Kreme Challenge, a benefit race for the NC Children's Hospital. Grew the race from 12 people to 1400+ in just 3 years, increased funds raised from $800 to $10,300 in just 2 years.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Apple Inc., iPod Group |
| Position: | Hardware in System Integration |
| Time period: | May 2008 - August 2008 |
| Description: | Worked in the high-intensity Apple iPod hardware group. |
| Employer: | RTI International |
| Position: | Dept. of Commercialization, Business Analyst Intern |
| Time period: | June 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Worked in a business analyst role in the Department of Commercialization evaluating a variety of technologies including corporate real estate valuation, workforce retention, and language translation. Created business models, market analysis, pricing and sales forecasting, and strategic partnerships. |
| Employer: | University of Maryland - College Park |
| Position: | REU Intern in Electrical Engineering |
| Time period: | May 2006 - July 2006 |
| Description: | Worked with Konstantin Khrustov under Dr. John Rodgers and researched wideband microwave interference on power supplies. Used a traveling wave tube configured as a chaotic oscillator to inject microwave signals into commercial supplies. Project won 1st Place at the concluding Research Fair. |
| Employer: | Progress Energy, Inc. |
| Position: | Distribution Research Intern |
| Time period: | May 2005 - August 2005 |
| Description: | Researched ways of optimizing feeder loading in distribution networks. Created an algorithm which factored in environmental, historical, and physical parameters in determining the maximum loading a feeder could support. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, MEng |
| University: | North Carolina State University |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2007 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, BEng |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Editorial columnist for NC State student newspaper, The Technician. |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Ultimate frisbee |
| Hobbies: | Traveling, photography, information visualization, film, tracking politics |
| Memberships: | IEEE |
| Awards: | Park Scholarship (2003-2007), a full 4 year merit scholarship to NC State.
Saket Vora Award for Outstanding Student Entrepreneur, 2007 (eponymous) 1st Place in Univ. of Maryland Research Fair |
Saket's Startups (9)
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Lilliwatt
Lilliwatt reveals the economic value of reducing energy use and helps bring positive change to people, communities, and the environment.
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PubTube
PubTube is a Web-enabled tool to allow authors to quickly and easily create and post short audio/video summaries to complement research paper abstracts.
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Saket is Following (18)
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Tribal Shout
Tribal Shout provides on-demand access to any podcast or audio blog that is publicly available on the Internet - whenever you want to listen to them - whether connected to the Internet from a desktop computer, a laptop or any landline or mobile ...
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Embrace
Stanford spin-off commercializing a $25 incubator for premature infants in developing countries.
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Saket's Contacts (27)
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Gary Palin
Executive Director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and a faculty member of the Love School of Business at Elon University.
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Rajesh Patil
An inspiring technical leader and IT manager with extensive experience in software development, quality assurance and high-tech operations with more than 9 years of experience building state of art IT solutions facilitating corporate growth.
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Bill Knight
Senior graduating in Electrical & Computer Engineering at NC State University. Interested in alternative energy, biofuels, cleantech, and automation.