Board

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Name Brief Bio

Ruby Sethi
President
 Namaste, Satsriakal and Hello everyone! My name is Ruby Sethi and I am the president for this 2010-11 academic year! I am currently in my Junior year pursuing my Bachelors in Business with a concentration in Management and a minor in International Business. My background is very rare and sometimes confusing to explain. I am a traditional Punjabi Hindu girl who's great great great grandparents were from India but after the 2nd partition my family resided in Afghanistan. I am first generation American born and most of my family born in Afghanistan. My immediate family is here in California and my extended family reside in places such as Germany, Canada, and India. I am very excited for this new year and I cannot wait to meet new people and coordinate some awesome events for you guys. I wish everyone an amazing year at San Francisco State University!

Niral Bhavsar
Vice President/Interim Treasurer
 I am a fourth year student at SFSU. I'm currently majoring in Computer Science to pursue a career in the software industry. During my free time, I love hanging out with my friends, dancing, listening to music, and trying new things. My passion is technology (I know, I'm a nerd... lol). I am friendly, so feel free to stop me to have a conversation about technology, movies, or anything else! I am really excited to serve as webmaster for ISA again and working with the new board members to bring fun exciting fun events this year! I am looking forward to the upcoming school year and I can't wait to get involved and meet new people. I am sure we will have a great year! :)

Ankita Saxena
Secretary
 Hello everybody! My name is Ankita. I am a Junior at San Francisco State University majoring in International Business. I was born in India and raised in the Bay Area. I love watching TV shows such as Desperate Housewives and How I Met Your Mother. My interest in learning about the Indian culture got me involved with the ISA. I am really excited about all the new events coming up in this coming semester. 

Amanjot Kaur
Events Coordinator
 Hello all! I'm Amanjot K. Pooni, a sophmore here at SFS, majoring in Bio Sci. I am Punjabi and very proud of it. My family and friends circle make up quite the majority of my life -oh, and Bhangra of course! I love meeting new personalities. SFSU is a very diverse campus with so many unique cultures, among which is our very own. I'm taking part in ISA this year as a means to help in connecting the Indian students on campus and to spread awareness to others about the Indian culture. As an Event Coordinator, I'm looking forward to organize events which will help us in this endeavor. It should be an eventful and memorable year up ahead =]

Sadaf Malik
Social Chair/ Webmaster
 Hey everyone! My name is Sadaf and I'm a soph/junior at SFSU. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm of Pakistani descent with my parents being from Lahore. As of now, I'm a pre-med student majoring in biology and hope to become a surgeon someday. I've been part of ISA for over a year now, being the treasurer last year, and I look forward to seeing some great events with a good turnout. In my spare time, I enjoy developing my artsy side that includes Bollywood dance. I've starting up a team this year to get us going at our events, so I hope more of you that are interested join the organization and dance. I can be a busy bee running around campus all day to get things done, but I enjoy it all. I'm keeping my hopes high for this year to be a blast for y'all!

Ashley Singh
Historian
 Hello Everyone! My name is Ashley Singh. I am a Junior majoring in Family Consumer Sciences an emphasis of Child and Family Studies as well as minoring in Sociology. I have been apart of ISA since 2007. I was a member for two years and I decided to be part of the board since I love to be involved and I would like to see more fellow students of mine be apart of this organization. Last year I was Events coordinator but I am currently the Historian.I love helping others and staying busy with school and other extracurricular activities. I love my culture and I want to spread awareness to others and even get non-indians involved. I feel everyone can be apart of ISA and get to know more people.I love being emersed in my culture and in others. I am eager to learn as I see it "knowledge is power". I am very open-minded and friendly. So if you see me on campus and you have questions plese feel free to ask them. I'm excited for a new semester full festivities and I hope you are too.  

Shareen Singh
Presidential Advisor
 Hello, my name is Shareen and I am a student here at San Francisco State. I intend to pursue a profession as an Astronomer at NASA. I am of Fijian/Indian decent, Rajasthani Indian to be precise but was born and raised in the Bay Area, San Francisco primarily. I love to perform and to be on stage. In fact, singing is one of my biggest passions. I love to dance as well... as I am on a professional Bhangra DANCE LINEUP that represents San Francisco State called San Francisco Diyan Kuriyan aka SFDK. I consider myself to be genuine, sincere, spiritual, intellegent and open-minded. My family and friends mean the world to me. They keep me grounded and have supported me through it all. I feel blessed to have them. San Francisco State is a second home to me as I feel like I have become a more mature young woman and have experienced and learned lessons that will lead me to an accomplished life. And the best part is… since I've been here, I have found a big family to share those experiences with.

Dr. Ramesh Bollapragada
Advisor
 Ramesh Bollapragada is a tenured Associate Professor in the Decision Sciences department of the College of Business, San Francisco State University, CA, USA. Prior to joining SFSU, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, NJ for six years. Dr. Bollapragada has a B.Tech. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from India and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Management of Manufacturing and Automation from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Ramesh received several academic awards and several management awards during his industrial career: Some important ones include, the distinguished faculty award, “Research Professor of the Year for two consecutive years (2004-2005 and 2005-2006)” at the College of Business- SFSU, and few United States Patents. He was a visiting professors to top universities in U.S (e.g. Carnegie Mellon), France, Italy, Finland, Ireland, and India (e.g. IIM-Ahmedabad). His biographic data is published for four consecutive years in Marquis who is who in the World, Marquis who is who in Science and Engineering, Marquis who is who in America, Manchester’s who is who, Scholar Universe. He presented in over twenty international conferences in U.S. and Europe and his research is published in over a dozen top international journals.

Ramesh has lived the first 21 years of his life in India and has thus has strong cultural ties to India. He served as faculty advisor to the Indian Students Association (ISA) on campus for the two years in the past, and is again back. He enjoys contributing for all the several activities of the ISA on campus.