aBoUt Smriti Ramakrishnan

My name.
Pronounced: SMRIT(H)I.
The hidden 'h' is common in Indian names - English doesn't have an equivalent letter for the "th" sound. The closest sound is "th" in "thought". WikiPedia for Smriti

Where have I been?

Summer 2007
Research Intern, Microsoft adCenter Labs

Fall 2005-
1. Continuing into the UTCS PhD program !
2. Masters degree (MSCS) in December 2005 (picture)

Summer 2005
Intern, Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA (with the Identity Integration Server team).

Fall 2003
Back to academia: grad school, joined the Masters program at UTCS at the University of Texas at Austin - a city that in some ways reminds me of Bangalore.

2002-2003
Software Engineer, Yahoo! Bangalore, India.

1998-2002
Bachelors degree (B.E) in Computer Science and Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

1989-1998
School and high school in Bangalore, India, long before it became the so-called 'Silicon Valley of India'. Tiny, sleepy town once. B ig-little-city now. Source of out-sourced stuff. And the base of the Indian tech /software industry. Its changed, but Bangalore will always be home.

-1989
Umm.. you really read this far??