2017-2018
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President 2018: Devansh YerpudeDevansh Yerpude is a junior at Northview High School, and has been a Techno Titan since his freshmen year. He has participated in the FIRST competition as a member of both the programming and business teams. He loves robotics because it has given him a chance to apply both his technical and leadership skills in real life. Alongside his current occupation, Devansh also serves as Georgia FBLA's North Metro Area Vice - President, serving over 20,000 members across the state of Georgia. In the future, Devansh hopes to ultimately combine his expertise in business and technology to start his own business.
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Vice President 2018: Sneha KadiyalaSneha Kadiyala is a senior at Northview High School, and a Northview Techno Titan for four years. She has participated in the FIRST competition both as a member of the programming team and the business team. She enjoys robotics because it allows her to learn through real life application as well as work with people who share her interests. Outside of robotics, she dances as part of a South Indian classical dance academy and volunteers as a national youth coordinator for Vibha. Sneha hopes to pursue a degree in Computer Science in the future.
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Project Manager: Anish GangaAnish Ganga is a junior at Northview. He has been part of the Techno Titans since his freshman year as a member of the Design and Fabrication teams. Anish is currently the Project Manager for Techno Titan Robotics. In his free time, he also enjoys playing cricket and dancing.
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Business Captain: Erin ChungErin Chung is a senior at Northview High School. She has been on the robotics team since her junior year and participated in last year’s FIRST competition. She loves being in robotics because it allows her to work with incredible teammates and see business in action. Outside of robotics, she plays soccer, likes to read, and is currently president of Northview’s Future Business Leaders of America chapter. In the future, she plans to pursue a degree in business and psychology.
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Design Captain: Joseph NiJoseph Ni is currently a senior at Northview High School. Joseph, or Joe, as he likes to be called, has participated in robotics since his freshman year, with multiple VEX, BEST, and FIRST robotics competitions under his belt. He specializes in Computer Aided Design, but also possesses experience with fabrication techniques and programming. Outside of robotics, Joe enjoys reading non-fiction books, managing his brokerage account, creating solutions to automate tasks, and working out with friends. Down the road, he plans to create software solutions to automate investing. He also wants to develop powered exoskeletons to augment humans physically and cognitively.
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Fabrication Captain: Calvin BoothCalvin Booth is currently a junior at Northview. He has been on the Techno Titans Robotics team since his freshman year as a member of the Design and Fabrication team. In addition to robotics, Calvin played on Northview's Baseball team for two years and has played with Northview's Marching Band for three years.
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Programming Captain: Yi LiuYi Liu is currently a senior at Northview, and is the programming captain for the Techno Titans. He has been on the team since his sophomore year as part of the programming team. Yi is President of the Programming Team at Northview as well as a member of Northview's Web Team. In his free time, Yi enjoys spending time with his younger brother and sister, and working on his independent projects.
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Electrical Captain: Robert WangRobert is a senior at Northview High School. He has been part of the Techno Titans since his junior year as a member of the electrical team. In his free time, Robert is either studying to become a pilot as an aspiring Air Force candidate or at the gym training.
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2016-2017
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President 2017: Sneha KadiyalaSneha Kadiyala is a senior at Northview High School, and a Northview Techno Titan for four years. She has participated in the FIRST competition both as a member of the programming team and the business team. She enjoys robotics because it allows her to learn through real life application as well as work with people who share her interests. Outside of robotics, she dances as part of a South Indian classical dance academy and volunteers as a national youth coordinator for Vibha. Sneha hopes to pursue a degree in Computer Science in the future.
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Vice President 2017: Animesh KoratanaAnimesh Koratana is a senior at Northview High School and an independent researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. His interests lie in the fields of cognitive behavior and artificial intelligence, specifically to help solve the largest problems facing artificial intelligence today using mechanisms already found in our brains. He uses theoretical and computational tools to study the structure of intelligent computation in high-dimensional neural systems to help us better understand our minds, and the world around us. Animesh is also a public speaker at TEDx, a guest lecturer at Georgia State University, and TiE Entrepreneurs.
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Business Captain: Nidhi PaiNidhi Pai is currently a sophomore at Northview High School. She has been on the robotics team since her freshmen year and participated in both BEST and FIRST competitions. She enjoys spending time with and learning from other STEM-oriented students and mentors. When she's not at robotics, she's either swimming or studying. She is also a member of Northview's Girls in Stem. Her future goals include a degree in statistics or computer science.
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Design Captain: Sidharth PotdarSidharth Potdar is currently a senior at Northview High School as well as this year's head of Design. Sidharth has participated in robotics since his sophomore year, and has competed in both the BEST and FIRST competitions. Sidharth specializes in Computer Aided Design and participate in organizations like the Solid Work User Group to help hone his skills. Outside of robotics, he enjoys playing basketball and soccer as well as learning German.
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Fabrication Captain: Rounak ChowdhuryRounak Chowdhury is a Northview Junior and the Fabrication Captain of the 2016-2017 season. He is interested in pursuing a career in Engineering and has interned in Georgia Techs ASDL Lab. Along with robotics, he works as a soccer referee and volunteers at the annual Atlanta Science Festival. His work on the CAD team in the 2015 season and the Mechanical team in the 2016 season has helped him link the Fabrication team with the Design team to increase communication and productivity.
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Programming Captain: Sil SavlaSil Savla loves electrical and software engineering. Along with robotics, Sil dances and plays the violin. Sil also is a lighting and audio technician and works on large productions crews for concerts and musical productions. This dexterous ability has helped Sil not only work as the programming captain, but also as our electrical captain in 2015. He has helped bridge the gap between the two sub teams, allowing each to run more efficiently and at a greater ability.
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Electrical Captain: Atharv MaratheAtharv Marathe is currently a senior at Northview High School and has been part of the robotics team since his sophomore year, and has participated in both the BEST and FIRST competitions. He loves robotics, because it provides challenges that he doesn't normally get to encounter in school. It also allows him to collaborate with people who love solving complex engineering problems and who care just as much about technology. Outside of his time with the Northview Techno Titans, Atharv loves doing anything related to physics, his favorite subject in school.
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2015-2016
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President 2016: Animesh Koratana
Website: akoratana.xyz Animesh Koratana is a senior at Northview High School and an independent researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Animesh is the founder and President of the Techno Titans Robotics Foundation, designed to compete and sustainably spread STEM education throughout the community. His interests lie in the fields of cognitive behavior and artificial intelligence, specifically to help solve the largest problems facing artificial intelligence today using mechanisms already found in our brains. He uses theoretical and computational tools to study the structure of intelligent computation in high-dimensional neural systems to help us better understand our minds, and the world around us. Animesh is also a public speaker at TEDx, a guest lecturer at Georgia State University, and TiE Entrepreneurs. |
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Vice President & Business Captain: Meghna Dash
Meghna is a student of computer science at Auburn University and was the Vice President of the Techno Titans for the 2015-2016 season. She has done a considerable amount of work in computer aided design, computer science, and business speaking. She graduated from Northview High School in 2016 and is looking to participate in research opportunities in the field of computer science. |
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Mechanical Captain: Arjun Gandhi
Arjun Gandhi is a Northview senior and was captain of the Mechanical team during the 2015-2016. He has competed in the BEST and FIRST Robotics competitions since his freshmen year. When he is not in robotics, Arjun is pursuing his martial arts training and has earned two black belts. He loves robotics, because it allows him to use equipment that he normally wouldn't have access to and work with students who are just as passionate as he is about engineering. Arjun is currently interning at EDIC Inc. and hopes to pursue a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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