Tushar Sonthalia and Hetvi Dedhia, our final year Bachelor of Data Science (BDS) students, have achieved some great professional milestones at a very young age. While Tushar is currently working as a Machine Learning Researcher at Adaptive Investment Solutions (a FinTech start-up based out of Boston), Hetvi recently wrapped up her 6-month internship at ACG Worldwide where she worked as a Data Science Intern.

Tushar and Hetvi also recently landed an internship at Amazon – achieving a highly coveted milestone for any undergraduate student. How did they crack the selection process at Amazon and land this role? We caught up with Tushar and Hetvi to learn more about their journey.

Many-a-times you get carried away with the opportunities that lie in front of you instead of taking the path that you’ve always wanted. Pursuing your passion as an entrepreneur comes with great risk but with the right knowledge, skills and business exposure, you will be able to lead a successful entrepreneurial journey.

Our SP Jain alumnus, Shubham Kedia, from the BBA ’14 batch, is an example of a passionate entrepreneur who turned down two major corporate roles and chose to start a business of his own. Read on to know more about his journey.

Transitioning to college life, far away from the comfort of home, is a difficult journey for most students. As they embark on their own, many move away from family and friends for the first time.

This year, as many new students start their global undergraduate journey with SP Jain, here are a few heartfelt messages their parents shared for them.

“Today, we use Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant at home to achieve simple automation through AI-enabled conversations.

What happens when your plans for a celebration go awry due to an unprecedented crisis? Do you cancel the plans you had carefully worked on, or do you take the celebrations up a notch by making it a grand virtual fiesta with excited participants from around the world?

Nguyen Hoang (BDS Intake of 2019), popularly known among his classmates as Louis, just completed his Year 1 at SP Jain and landed an internship at AI Australia, a dynamic Sydney-based brand committed to seeing artificial intelligence change the way we live and work. Let’s find out more about his journey.

Having learnt the basics of accountancy right in his Grade 7, Manas Sarda (BBA Class of 2020) always knew that he had a calling for business. “My father started our family business from scratch when I was a kid,” Manas shares. “I have seen him spend sleepless nights trying to grow the business and I’ve seen him fail. But the best thing I liked about dad was how he never gave up. He treated each morning as a fresh start, and that is what inspired me to follow his footsteps.”

Are we all moving towards a new way of life with COVID19? The answer is a big YES. So, what?

This write up focuses on the impact of the Pandemic, and the way companies should prepare to adapt to changing needs of consumers. What If analysis, an approach that focuses on possible outcomes under varying scenarios, can be helpful to companies to critically think and evolve strategies to cope with ambiguity and prepare for an uncertain future. This practice has become an imperative learning and is applied in real-life industry projects at S P Jain School of Global management.

From a shy teenager from a small town in Central India to a global graduate managing two part-time jobs (one in Dubai and one in Singapore) and contributing to his family’s thriving business – this is the story of Shashak Bakliwal’s (Bachelor of Business Administration | Class of 2020) transformation.