A Unique Educational & Career Opportunity with Stephen Wolfram

A unique opportunity to do original research at the frontiers of science, the Wolfram Science Summer School helps about 40 students from a diverse range of scientific backgrounds learn about Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science (NKS) and apply it to their fields of interest. Most of these students are advanced undergraduates and early graduate students, but those in different circumstances are considered. We are looking for students who want to move their careers in the NKS direction. Read more »

Class of 2009

Gaurav Gandhi

Bio [2009]

Gaurav Gandhi holds a PhD in infobionics and a BE in electronics and communications from Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and has worked as an analog and mixed signal design engineer. His PhD thesis was on nonlinear circuits, and titled "Electronic Realizations of Chaotic Circuits: From Breadboard to Nanotechnology." He holds three patents and has authored six scholarly publications. He is interested in technology-based solutions built around Wolfram|Alpha, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, and Mathematica for K–12 education.

Other than traveling and meeting new people, he loves driving cars.

Project Title

A New Kind of Education

Project

The project will focus on exploring the education space in the developing world, especially India, and how education can be made process-oriented. It will explore how the extensive use of a robust technology can in fact be a win-win game for all parties involved in the process of creating, imparting, and receiving education, along with its benefits to society.

Based on A New Kind of Science, this project will explore the immense technology, business, and other related possibilities created by this New Kind of Education.

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