Aadhar Jain
Head of USA Operations at Microlit
Head of R&D, USA Operations at Microlit
As the Head of USA operations for Microlit, a well-established manufacturer of liquid handling lab products, I am actively working on establishing the brand and operations of the company in the US. Recently seed-funded from US investors, Microlit USA is actively seeking partnerships with both branded and lab equipment private-label distributors, and pursuing end-user online distribution strategy for national presence.

Previously, I have 4 years of Silicon Valley experience in building backend software infrastructure for consumer products and features actively used by 100+ million users. I have led various software development and data engineering efforts at MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour) and LinkedIn. 

I have a CS degree from UIUC with Bronze Tablet (highest academic honor) and research publications in top academic journals for multimedia systems (video analytics) research. My technical background is supplemented with my MBA degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management. This educational background enables me to lead Microlit, manage product innovation while being aware of market and technology trends worldwide.
Microlit
https://www.linkedin.com/company/microlit
Executing sales and distribution strategy for Microlit in North America while managing new electronic product development for precise liquid handling in laboratories.

> Distribution - Actively working on the distribution strategy by pursuing branded and private-label lab equipment distributor relationships and developing end-user online channels. Also investing in brand awareness via SEO, social media marketing and offline marketing primarily through trade shows
> Fundraising - Successfully raised seed investment from US based investors in 2019
> New Product Development - Managing the development the future range of innovative electronic products for the organization
New Jersey, United States
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Head of USA Operations
Microlit
https://www.linkedin.com/company/microlit
Leveraged my technical education and experience in Silicon Valley software industry to design, develop and manage new electronic product development at Microlit

> Electronic Product Management - Led the research, design and development of innovative electronic products, including the electronic burette (https://www.microlit.com/microlit-e-burette/) . Leveraged my expertise in software product development to design product experiences which set new standards for the lab equipment  industry.

> Internal Software Development - Managed internal software development and implementation for invoicing, manufacturing, store and inventory control
Lucknow Area, India
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Product Manager
MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/myfitnesspal
I was an engineer on the Data Science and Engineering (DES) team which is responsible for building backend infrastructure and implementing algorithms that drive data products. I worked on several key projects at MyFitnessPal leading backend architecture and implementation of:

 > Restaurant Logging - enabled over 100M users to view and log nutritional information for restaurant menu items

>  Verified Foods -  Algorithmically produces a smaller version of the food dataset with comprehensive and accurate nutritional values. The algorithm had various components including user signals feedback incorporation, majority voting schemes and LSH based de-duplication layers.

> Food API services - Defined APIs for, and built various REST services to expose CRUD and other algorithms for food data.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior Software Engineer
MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/myfitnesspal
Data Science and Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area
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Software Engineer
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
I was an engineer on the Content Team at LinkedIn that worked with news content on the web. I contributed to the overall goal of the team to provide relevant and meaningful content to professionals throughout the website by building backend infrastructure to surface news content via various distribution channels that make up the LinkedIn experience. 

Exposed to the design and implementation of large scale web applications and the backend infrastructure required to meet desirable latency and throughput thresholds.
Mountain View
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Software Engineer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Worked on the design and development of real time human activity classification such as video conferencing, light saber gaming and dancing based on system metadata from the TEEVE (Tele - Immersive Environment For Everybody) System, using machine learning techniques. The objective of the project is to infier whether real time activity classification can be achieved without customized trainig based on t-shirt color, lighting effects, structure of people in the video and other variable physical parameters.
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Senior Thesis
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
Worked on the analysis and implementation of machine learning algorithms, to empower features that leverage LinkedIn's Groups' discussions and News data. 

Implemented a supervised machine learned model to rank LinkedIn Groups' discussion posts. Also, implemented a topic assignment library that "computes" a list of entities that a given discussion post or news article is talking about.
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Software Engineering Intern
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Developed a web based real time monitoring application for TEEVE: Tele-immersive Environment for Everybody, a research project at UIUC, under the guidance of Professor Klara Nahrstedt.
University Of Illinois
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Individual Study
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign
Assist students with machine problems, lab work and homework for ECE 190 - an introductory course at UIUC that aims at providing students with exposure to computing systems.
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ECE 190 Undegrad Teaching Assistant
Cerner Corporation
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cerner-corporation
Member of a Java Application Development Team – StaffLink
Came up with possible enhancements in the application and implemented them.
Gained experience in Java GUI Application Development and Eclipse IDE.
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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Software Engineer Intern
Master of Business Administration
Technology entrepreneurship and managing innovation
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University of California, Los Angeles
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B.S.
The undergraduate Computer Science curriculum at UIUC provided me a well rounded education with a strong hold on core CS skills and specialization in the domain of systems and machine learning.
Computer Science
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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La Martiniere College, Lucknow
Being able to detect and recognize human activities is essential for 3D collaborative applications for efficient quality of service provisioning and device management. A broad range of research has been devoted to analyze media data to identify human activity, which requires the knowledge of data format, application-specific coding technique and computationally expensive image analysis. In this paper, we propose a human activity detection technique based on application generated metadata and related system metadata. Our approach does not depend on specific data format or coding technique. We evaluate our algorithm under different cyber-physical setups.
3D Teleimmersive Activity Classification Based on Application-System Metadata
ACM Multimedia, 2013
http://cairo.cs.uiuc.edu/publications/papers/activity-aadhar.pdf
Awarded for the project, “Activity Classification in 3DTI Systems Using Application-System Metadata.”, which I have been working on for the past year for my Senior Thesis.
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2013 CS Undergraduate - Graduate Symposium Outstanding Research Project Award
Awarded to the top three percent of the students in their college graduating class.
College of Engineering, UIUC.
Bronze Tablet
Awarded to 1 undergraduate student for academic and research achievements.
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C. W. Gear Outstanding Undergraduate Award
Analog Signal Processing
ECE 210
Applied Linear Algebra
MATH 415
Computer Architecture
CS 232
Computer Engineering I
ECE 290
Database Systems
CS 411
Embedded Systems
CS 431
Fundamental Algorithms
CS 473
Introduction to Computing Systems
ECE 190
Machine Learning
CS 446
Multimedia Systems
CS 414
Operating Systems Design
CS 423
Programming Languages and Compilers
CS 421
Stats and Probability
STAT 400
Systems Programming
CS 241
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Lucknow
Anisha Khanna
Microlit
https://in.linkedin.com/in/shivani-chauhan-3ab716227
Lucknow
Shivani Chauhan
Logistics Executive at Microlit
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Mexico City
Rahul Shukla
Sales at Incode
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Lucknow
Raju Verma
Customer Service Department( Asistant Manager) at MICROLIT
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India
Mohit Mohan Kulshreshtha
Quality Head (DGM) Orient Cables India Pvt. Ltd.
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Pune
Vaibhav Joshi
Senior Sales Engineer at FOSS India (Maharashtra and Goa)
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Lucknow
Neelesh Misra
Audio storyteller, author, founder of Slow, Gaon Connection
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Bengaluru
Nikhil Narayanan
Senior Creative Director at Ogilvy. Writer at large.
https://in.linkedin.com/in/vanikola
Bengaluru
Vani Kola (vanik.eth)
Managing Director at Kalaari
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Meerut
Akshay Choudhary
Here To Share My Passion For Marketing
https://in.linkedin.com/in/prateek-vaish-2910461b0
Lucknow
Prateek Vaish
Executive at HCL Technologies
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Bengaluru
Aviral Bhatnagar
VC at Venture Highway | ajuniorvc.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghoseb
San Francisco, CA
Baishampayan Ghose
👨🏽‍💻 Startup Founder | 🏃🏽‍♂️Athlete | 📈 Coach
https://in.linkedin.com/in/saantosh-pawar-0b70819b
Mumbai
Saantosh Pawar
Manager - International Sales at Glassco
https://in.linkedin.com/in/gonuguntla-veeranjaneyulu-2679611b
Bengaluru
Gonuguntla Veeranjaneyulu
Senior Staff Engineer at BORQS. 
End-to-End Mobile verification and Android devices carrier acceptance. LTE/IMS/VoLTE/VoWiFi/RTT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayesha-achakzai-1b69056b
Antioch, CA
Ayesha Achakzai
Student at California state university, east bay
https://in.linkedin.com/in/khurshid-khan-3b83047b
Lucknow
Khurshid Khan
CHIEF SURGEON at NAZAR EYE CLINIC &  HOSPITAL , LUCKNOW , INDIA
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Los Angeles, CA
Aditi Shastry
Digital Health Strategy @ BrightInsight
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United States
Salil N.
ML Engineering @ FB
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Mountain View, CA
Shanxiang Qi
Co-Founder/CTO Liquido
Mark Allen
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Not only is Aadhar one of the smartest engineers I've ever worked with, he also has the some of the best product sensibilities of any engineer I've worked with. This rare and valuable combination makes him an incredible asset to any team. He is a natural leader that makes everyone he works with better at their jobs. Suzanne Heinrichs
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aadhar is a program manager’s dream engineer. I had the the opportunity to work with him on one of MyFitnessPal’s data science-driven features, and I wish I could work with him on every project. He’s an excellent engineer, thoughtful in estimating and planning his work. However, my favorite part about working with him is how he takes such a strong leadership role on the project team. He’s an excellent communicator both with engineers and non-engineers alike: five stars from this program manager.
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Manufacturing Engineer - Drive Unit at Tesla | Ex-Lilium
Tech Crunch
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TED: Ideas Worth Spreading - Unofficial
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Life Science Professionals
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UIUC Networking
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Illini Alums
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LinkedIn Alumni Network (official)
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iPhone Developers Group
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Intern Hackday 2012
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