YJA Convention 2010 07 New Brunswick NJ Ninth

Author(s): Young Jains of America (YJA)
Publisher: Young Jains of America YJA USA

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Jain Networking Forum (INF) Sessions
Engineering Your Career
Achira Shah lives in a quiet suburb of Boston with her husband, Adam Pierce. She did her undergraduate and master's degrees in Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Currently, she works in the Nuclear Energy business and loves every minute of it. Her company is nice enough to pay for continuing education, so Achira has decided to embark on the longest degree ever and is in the 4th year of her PhD in Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. In her spare time, she loves to read, play the piano, and ski with her husband.
Adam Pierce resides in the suburbs of Boston with his wife, Achira Shah. He did his undergraduate work as an Electrical Engineer at Cornell University and is currently working as a Project Manager of Nuclear Energy projects for Invensys Systems. Adam is also working on his MBA from BU, and in his non-existent spare time, he loves to play flag football, company sports and ski. One of his recent accomplishments has been completing the 80-mile Pan-Mass Bike Challenge with his father two years in a row.
Dr. Ambika Bumb was born in 1984 in Rajasthan and raised in Wyoming until her family moved to South Carolina. She earned her Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering and Economics Minor from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. In 2008, she completed her PhD from Oxford University while on the Marshall Scholarship. Ambika's interest is in nanomedicine, or the application of nanotechnology for diagnosing and treating diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis. Her doctoral work that combined nanoengineering and medicine, brought together four laboratories from two institutes, four fields, and two countries. She is currently at the National Cancer Institute on a post-doctoral fellowship. Outside of research, Ambika and her sister have taken part in the Himalayan Health Exchange that provides healthcare to underserved populations in remote areas of the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands. She also works with nano-policy, i.e. the National Nanotech Initiative to make recommendations to the Cabinet council by which the President coordinates science policies.
Pankaj K. Shah (MSME, MSEE, MBA, PE) is the owner of a small engineering consulting firm in Needham, MA. He was the Education and Pathshala Director for eight years for the Jain Center of Greater Boston (ICGB). He was one of the key persons in organizing the First Conference of the Pathshala Teachers and Jain Educators of USA. He was also a JAINA Director and represented the Boston Jain Center. He is one of the active members of the JCGB. His hobbies are Indian classical music and astronomy.
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