Alumni Hall Of Fame

Pooja Sankar

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Graduation Year:
2004

 

In 2002, Sankar received her undergraduate degree at IIT Kanpur and continued on to the University of Maryland to receive her Master’s degree in Computer Science in 2004. While studying at Standford for her MBA (which she received in 2010), Sankar opened Piazza , an online platform where instructors and students come together to learn and teach. 

Piazza offers a refined Q & A environment along with tools for effective course collaboration. Piazza was built to model the face-to-face interaction that happens inside the classroom. To emulate this learning environment, updates are available upon their occurrence so they can be viewed in real time. 

Collaboration is a key component of this platform, and is achieved through wiki-style editing, endorsed posts, student-to-student learning and instructor feedback. 

Piazza has turned into a ground breaking platform for students who are not comfortable asking questions or speaking up in class. The platform is now used by professors and instructors at over 90 universities in the United States.

Prior to opening Piazza, Sankar spent time working with Facebook, Kosmix, and Oracle as a Software Developer. 

Inductees

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Narendra Ahuja
PhD 1979

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Michael Antonov
Bachelor's 2003

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J. Gary Augustson
Master's 1969

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David Baggett
Bachelor's 1992

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Suman Banerjee
PhD 2003

Photo of Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin
Bachelor's 1993

Photo of Paul Capriolo

Paul Capriolo
Bachelor's 2006

Photo of Anthony Casalena

Anthony Casalena
Bachelor's 2005

Photo of Charles Dyer

Charles Dyer
PhD 1979

Photo of Martin Farach

Martin Farach
PhD 1991

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Gary Flake
PhD 1993

Photo of Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi
PhD 2003

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Howard Gobioff
Bachelor's 1993

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Naresh Gupta
PhD 1993

Photo of Patrick Jenkins

Patrick Jenkins
Bachelor's 2006

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Vipin Kumar
PhD 1982

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Ronald Larsen
PhD 1981

Photo of Haroon Mokhtarzada

Haroon Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2001

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Idris Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2010

Photo of Zeki Mokhtarzada

Zeki Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2001

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Shmuel Peleg
PhD 1979

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Andrew Reisse
Bachelor's 2001

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Glenn Ricart
PhD 1980

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Debanjan Saha
PhD 1995

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Pooja Sankar
Master's 2004

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Jagdeep Singh
Bachelor's 1987

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Aya Soffer
PhD 1995

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Lee Spector
PhD 1992

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Granger Sutton
PhD 1992

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Qiang Yang
PhD 1989

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Shayan Zadeh
Master's 2002