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Background

Fast Forward India was born after an intense discussion over several weeks between Durga Prasad Pandey, Jitendra Mohan and Shulabh Gupta. Initial idea was to make engineering students more productive during their stay in college and help them gain some leadership skills. With more brainstorming, FFI with its current vision of helping the community through motivated college students came into shape.

Durga P Pandey is a member of the technical staff at a Silicon Valley startup, and has a keen interest in development initiatives that have deep and wide-ranging impact on people's lives. He is a recent graduate of the MIT Media Lab. He was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University (2004-2005) researching issues involved in educating underprivileged children in India. Before coming to Stanford, he received a BS from Indian School of Mines, and has been a research scientist, management consulting intern, and computer instructor to children and housewives in a rural computer literacy program. Durga has served on the editorial boards of several student magazines, and writes short stories and poetry. (dpsmiles at mit dot edu)




Jitendra Mohan Jha is working with Chevron Corp, a global energy company, as a reservoir engineer. He also volunteers for Pratham, a community based grassroots organization that promotes education of slum dwelling children in India. He received an MS from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, both in Petroleum Engineering. He was a University of Texas Fellow (2003-2004) and was also awarded the ConocoPhilips Fellowship for outstanding academic achievement in graduate school. Jitendra is also an avid blogger.     (cooljhajee at yahoo dot com)





Shulabh Gupta is a Doctoral student researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, Universite de Montréal, Canada. He has worked on ultrafast photonic technologies for next generation communication systems, and is now working on new optical and microwave Metamaterials. Shulabh received a B.Tech in electronic engineering from Indian School of Mines. He has given various technical talks in US and Canada on optical signal processing. Shulabh was an organizer of various technical events in college, and finds immense value in working for social awareness issues and was also involved as a Computer and Internet instructor for the elderly with the the Yellow Door project. (shulabh dot gupta at polymtl dot ca)

   
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