Saurabh Madaan

Current

• Graduate Student at Perimeter Institute

Past

• Analyst at Argus Information and Advisory Services
• Vice-Chair for International Affairs at Graduate and Professional Students Assembly, Penn
• Graduate Research Fellow at University of Pennsylvania

• Undergraduate Fellow -- Nano-engineering at IIT Madras

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Education

• University of Pennsylvania
• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Indian Institute of Technology

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Websites

• Published Article - Leadership
• My University
• My Photography

Saurabh Madaan’s Experience

• Graduate Student

  Perimeter Institute

  (Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Analyst

  Argus Information and Advisory Services

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  September 2008 — July 2009 (11 months)

• Vice-Chair for International Affairs

  Graduate and Professional Students Assembly, Penn

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  March 2008 — August 2008 (6 months)

  1. Part of 12-member executive board that represents over 11,000 graduate students at Penn.
  2. Chair of the International Council that works to enhance GAPSA's engagement with the diverse student community at Penn
  3. Work together with university officials in Penn's Graduate Student Center and the Office of International Programs to organize social and academic events for the Penn student community.

• Graduate Research Fellow

  University of Pennsylvania

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2006 — August 2008 (2 years )

  1. Programmed instruments for computational control using LabView
  2. Experimental Studies on Organic Light-Emitting Diode and Organic thin-film Transistors.

• Undergraduate Fellow -- Nano-engineering

  IIT Madras

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)

  - Discovered cheaper route to fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes for sensor applications
  - Results presented at MRS Conference in Boston (2006), and Nano 2006 in Bangalore.

Saurabh Madaan’s Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master of Science in Engineering , 2006 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice-Chair (Int'l Affairs), Graduate and Professional Students Assembly (GAPSA) - May 2008-present
  
  Member of Policy Council, GAPSA (Graduate and Student Professional Students Association) - 2007
  
  Member, GSAB (Graduate Student Advisory Board), 2007-present

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  B. Tech , Materials Science and Engineering , 2002 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Literary Secretary, Godavari Hostel,
  Coordinator for various posts at Saarang (Cultural festival) And Shaastra (Technical festival)

• Indian Institute of Technology

Additional Information

Saurabh Madaan’s Websites:

• Published Article - Leadership
• My University
• My Photography

Saurabh Madaan’s Interests:

• Volunteer: Association for India’s Development May ’07-present - Helped raise donations through cultural events and publicity initiatives • Developed Graphic Design for the sponsorship brochure of I.I.T. Madras’s technical festival Shaastra (sponsorship: $50,000; software: CorelDraw) • Writing (published in youth magazines, poetry anthologies); love photography, travel; Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi • Avid reader of biographies (favorites include Gandhi’s My Experiments with Truth, Armstrong’s It’s Not about the bike);

Saurabh Madaan’s Groups:

IIT Madras, IIT,
University of Pennsylvania

•    IIT Madras Alumni
•    IIT Alumni
•    IIT Madras - Alumni
•    Credit Cards and Consumer Banking Professionals
•    University of Pennsylvania Alumni
•    UPENN Alumni
•    Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship Alumni
•    AID Volunteers
•    Ivy League Alumni
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    Penn Engineering Alumni
•    Penn Graduate Consulting Group

Saurabh Madaan’s Honors:

1. Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2006-08
2. 'Certification of Appreciation for Excellent Performance' in National Paper Presentation Contest at Shaastra, IIT Madras. 2004
3. Amongst top 2% of over 150,000 candidates appearing for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination, 2002

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