PERSONAL STATEMENT
Arjun Balasubramanian | UM-ID: 06824428
Computer Science & Engineering M.S. Fall 2018
Growing up in India has been an enriching experience; my interactions with people from different cultures and ideologies have broadened my perspective and allowed me to view things in different ways. Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati, the founder of my high school had once made a very powerful statement - “Youth are not useless, but they are used less.” This statement has been having a resonating impact on me since high school. During my senior year at NIT Trichy, I had conceptualized the idea of a “Youth Summit” that would allow young engineers to discuss and ideate on progressive themes. Pragyan, the technical festival of my institute gave me the platform to launch this idea and thus I co-founded the Pragyan Youth Business Summit 2016. The summit revolved around the Make in India initiative launched by the Government of India with a special focus on the Internet of Things (IoT). It included talks by Dr. Kumud Srinivasan (VP at Intel) and Mr. Amit Jain (Country Head of Visteon India) who spoke about the latest
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With the word Youthquake being recently recognized as Oxford’s word of 2017, it is clear that young engineers have a crucial role to play in enabling the enrichment of society that we live in. Courtesy of being an engineer at Amazon, I have been deeply influenced by Amazon’s leadership principles, particularly “Invent and Simplify” and “Learn and Be Curious.” It has taught me the importance of working backwards and has fueled my ambition to find solutions to some common problems that our society