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scientists, engineers,

entrepreneurs and corporate leaders

join aseI’s virtual convention

NaveeN jaIN aND jYotI BaNsaL amoNg tHe aWarD WINNers

merican Society of En-
gineers of Indian Origin
A(ASEI) hosted its 33rd
Annual National Convention
focusing on Global Engineer-
ing & Technologies (GET-
2020). This virtual convention
was held on December 5th and
6th, 2020. While the speakers
and participants were on the
Zoom platform, it was lives-
treamed worldwide through
YouTube. Attended by scien-
tists, engineers, entrepreneurs
and corporate leaders across
the USA, the two-day event
featured keynotes and multi-
ple interactive sessions with
prominent business and tech-
nology leaders, scientists and
engineering entrepreneurs. At
the Finale session on the sec-
ond day, ASEI recognized four
engineering achievers and four covered by the ancient Indians by Dr Robert Sutor, VP Quan- minimal resources.
service excellence and contrib- have created and strengthened tum, IBM Research. Quantum The next session was on
utors to ASEI. the fundamentals of modern computing aims to solve com- User Experience Design
The convention started with science and technology. While plex problems the world’s most (UXD), which is a design pro-
a welcome by ASEI President some of these groundbreaking powerful supercomputers can- cess whose sole objective is to
Jwalant Lakhia. It was emceed contributions have been ac- not solve. Leading the race in design a system that offers a
by Anu Gopalakrishnan. The knowledged, some are still un- this field is IBM, though Goo- great experience to its users.
first keynote speaker Deval known to most, and he shared gle, Microsoft, Amazon and lot Thus, UXD embraces the the-
Desai, VP Magna Int. spoke some of the profound inven- of others are all putting heavy ories of a number of disciplines
about Contributions of Indian tions that have and will contin- investment bets in Quantum as such as user interface design,
Technologists and weaved the ue to shape the future of hu- well. usability, accessibility, informa-
storyline from mythology to mankind. It was heartening to The next speaker was Prof tion architecture, and Human
history to modern era in a very see the contribution of Indian Solomon Darwin, often known Computer Interaction.
short span of time. From mak- women scientists and engineers as the “Father of Smart Village The first speaker Urmila
ing the best steel in the world highlighted in a field typically Movement.” Dr, Darwin spoke Kashyap, Senior User Experi-
to teaching the world to count, dominated by men. There were on Agritech innovations for a ence Designer with VMware,
India was actively contributing so many factoids about things Smarter Village. Dr Darwin talked about UX design sys-
to the field of science and tech- and achievements of unsung shared how UC Berkeley Haas tems for enterprise products
nology long before the mod- engineering heroes that would School defines the concept based on her 10+ years of
ern world evolved. One of the make anyone hailing from the and after that shared about his UXD experience working with
oldest civilizations in the world, Indian subcontinent proud! books and publications in ad- large companies like Moody’s
India has a strong tradition of The first technical session dition to the agricultural inno- & VMware. Surbhi Kaul, GM
science and technology. Many Quantum computing by Danc- vations that have the potential and Head of Product at Juni-
theories and techniques dis- ing with Qubits was a keynote to make villages smarter with Continued on next page... >>

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