Interview with Anoop Sinha : Alumni Stories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Anoop Sinha (BS Computer Systems Engineering, 1996) discusses how he became interested in technology, taking math classes at Stanford while attending Gunn High School, and transferring to Stanford his sophomore year. Sinha speaks about participating in the South Asian community club Sanskriti and other activities at A3C, in addition to being a math tutor, serving as a residential computing coordinator (RCC), and choosing his major advisor John Hennessy. He shares memories from his experience with the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, working at MIPS and Silicon Graphics as an undergraduate, and Stanford’s social life. Sinha also reflects on creating the startup Danoo and the need for continuous learning in the tech industry.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | October 23, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Sinha, Anoop | |
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| Creator | Sinha, Anoop | |
| Interviewer | Bent, Drew | |
| Interviewer | Scarlat, Sofia | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 1990s |
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| Subject | Universities and colleges |
| Subject | College students |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Anoop Sinha graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering. He joined Stanford as a sophomore transfer from Caltech. In his three years at Stanford, he lived in Schiff (Sterling Quad), Roble, and Serra (Stern), and in the latter two was a Residential Computer Consultant (RCC). He also spent time during his junior and senior year as an intern at MIPS Computer Systems, a division of Silicon Graphics that was founded by Prof. John Hennessy, his undergraduate advisor. He did research in early speech recognition-powered user interfaces at Stanford as part of CSLI (Center for Study of Language and Information). His interest in this area of research continued in graduate school, where he got his MS and PhD from UC Berkeley in Computer Science (EECS Department). After graduating from UC Berkeley, he worked at McKinsey & Co. as a Management Consultant, started a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up, and worked at Apple on Siri, leading early Machine Learning work for Natural Language Understanding. Currently he is a member of Facebook AI Research's team, envisioning and building future AI-powered experiences. He grew up moving West across the US, living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and California. He currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife (Aparna Sinha, Stanford, BS '99, MS '01, PhD '05) and two children. |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mq927xg1259 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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