Entrepreneur Series - Miss India Washington 2020 & Security Engineer @ Uber - Nabanita De

from Gritty Serendipity · host Chetana Desai

Episode 1: Nabanita De is currently a Security Engineer at Uber and currently crowned Miss India Emerald City Washington 2020. She is passionate about solving world challenges through tech and entrepreneurship. My work has been recognized on Business Insider, Washington Post, Mashable, Huffington Post, BBC News, NDTV, Fortune, Wired Magazine, and over 90% of news publications worldwide and she was invited to Forbes Under 30 by the Forbes Team.  She has won several awards from big tech companies and institutes like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Harvard, MIT, and Qualcomm. Currently, I work on defending hackers as a Software Engineer at Uber. She has a Masters in Computer Science from UMass Amherst with a full-tuition rider scholarship.  Here is some media coverage about my work:  1.https://www.businessinsider.com/students-solve-facebooks-fake-news-problem-in-36-hours-2016-11  2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/11/18/fake-news-on-facebook-is-a-real-problem-these-college-students-came-up-with-a-fix/ She has also been published on Hacker News, Huffington Post, BBC, CNN, Wired Magazine, Fortune, and over 90% of news publications worldwide.  Some of the platforms that She has built using her tech skills include -  1. www.returnships.info (helping women get back to work after a long haul in career)  2. Project FiB  (detecting Fake News on Facebook) - https://projectfib.azurewebsites.net/ - Featured on over 90% of news articles worldwide  3. Help Her - Providing platform for acid attack and domestic violence victims find out laws pertaining to their cases.  4. As a 6-year-old, collected funds for Redcross India and Helpage India.  5. Got the NCWIT grant and raised 2000 dollars for helping stem education.  6. Built an app Pedestrian Go to aid distracted pedestrians while they are crossing the street.  7. Volunteered and organized the biggest Women in tech conference in the world, Grace Hopper Conference.  8. Was the first female to win the BITSAA Mantra Entrepreneur of the Year award in BITS Pilani.  9. Won Rockstar Leadership award at Uber for saving 9 million dollars at work.  10. Got a full scholarship for a Master's at UMass Amherst.  11. Built an app that got over 50,000 downloads on the app store.  12. Won 17+ Hackathons and 7 Gold Medals in Chess.

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Episode 1: Nabanita De is currently a Security Engineer at Uber and currently crowned Miss India Emerald City Washington 2020. She is passionate about solving world challenges through tech and entrepreneurship. My work has been recognized on Business Insider, Washington Post, Mashable, Huffington Post, BBC News, NDTV, Fortune, Wired Magazine, and over 90% of news publications worldwide and she was invited to Forbes Under 30 by the Forbes Team. She has won several awards from big tech companies and institutes like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Harvard, MIT, and Qualcomm. Currently, I work on defending hackers as a Software Engineer at Uber. She has a Masters in Computer Science from UMass Amherst with a full-tuition rider scholarship. Here is some media coverage about my work: 1.https://www.businessinsider.com/students-solve-facebooks-fake-news-problem-in-36-hours-2016-11 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/11/18/fake-news-on-facebook-is-a-real-problem-these-college-students-came-up-with-a-fix/ She has also been published on Hacker News, Huffington Post, BBC, CNN, Wired Magazine, Fortune, and over 90% of news publications worldwide. Some of the platforms that She has built using her tech skills include - 1. www.returnships.info (helping women get back to work after a long haul in career) 2. Project FiB (detecting Fake News on Facebook) - https://projectfib.azurewebsites.net/ - Featured on over 90% of news articles worldwide 3. Help Her - Providing platform for acid attack and domestic violence victims find out laws pertaining to their cases. 4. As a 6-year-old, collected funds for Redcross India and Helpage India. 5. Got the NCWIT grant and raised 2000 dollars for helping stem education. 6. Built an app Pedestrian Go to aid distracted pedestrians while they are crossing the street. 7. Volunteered and organized the biggest Women in tech conference in the world, Grace Hopper Conference. 8. Was the first female to win the BITSAA Mantra Entrepreneur of the Year award in BITS Pilani. 9. Won Rockstar Leadership award at Uber for saving 9 million dollars at work. 10. Got a full scholarship for a Master's at UMass Amherst. 11. Built an app that got over 50,000 downloads on the app store. 12. Won 17+ Hackathons and 7 Gold Medals in Chess.

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