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Ms. Anchal Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate at IIT Delhi. Her research encompasses tactile perception of objects in the visually challenged. Drawn towards innovations exercising imagination, scientific thinking, and strong user empathy, she has mentored and participated in diverse social innovation projects and won two awards by IISc, Bangalore and IIT-Delhi with her team. She has led and been a speaker in events propagating innovation including those by AIM, NITI AYOG.

She completed her M.Des. in Industrial design (from SPA, New Delhi) and interned at GVIC, PepsiCo, India. She was acknowledged for her thesis work for integrating cultural spatial forms in a unique product using principles of light and shadows to educate children about unity. The project was sponsored by the Design Clinic Scheme by GoI and NID and was featured as a finalist in Toycathon 2021 and TISDC 2018. During her B.Arch. she emerged as a 2nd ranker both for her thesis work on ‘a school for experiential learning’ and overall 5-year academic performance.

In her Fulbright-Nehru project, she will analyse how to better convey three-dimensionality in two-dimensional tactile stimuli. Although layered and complex, she believes with continual deep-work and problem-solving acumen, this work can profoundly advance and contribute towards accessible STEM education for those without vision.

She believes in a multi-faceted growth and commends the perseverance sports can bring to life. She has played Throwball at National level and won silver medal (Badminton) at college level. Being perceptive towards life, she exercises self-expression through art, writing, and short videos.

Dr. Aman Gupta obtained a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Delhi in 2005. Thereafter, he went to business school at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, completing his MBA in 2007. He spent a term at the University of Lyon, France, as part of this course. Dr. Gupta worked as a credit rating analyst, from 2008 to 2010, with CRISIL Limited (a Standard and Poor’s Enterprise) and spent a few years as a co-founder of a start-up until late 2011. In December 2011, he joined the Indian Corporate Law Service of the Government of India, which regulates the functioning of companies in India.

Dr. Gupta joined the premier Indian Administrative Service in 2013 and has undertaken several assignments in the Government of NCT of Delhi and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Along with his work in the civil service, he has also completed a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Delhi and a Ph.D. in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Dr. Gupta is a visually impaired person and is legally blind. He has a keen interest in reading, writing, and travelling.

As part of the Fulbright-Nehru Master’s fellowship, Dr. Gupta is pursuing an LLM at Harvard University. He is studying areas of constitutional and administrative law relating to the balance of powers, balance between regulation and freedom, and trust-based governance. He hopes to be able to apply this knowledge while formulating law and policy in India and to better appreciate the nuances during their implementation. He believes this would enable him to do justice to his profession as an IAS officer in improving the lives of his fellow citizens.