EF Alumni

Shrishti Batra

CTO, QZense

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Agriculture, Data Science, IOT

Location:

Bangalore

Cohort:

Dr. Srishti Batra has a PhD in computational biology & chemical ecology from TIFR-NCBS specialising in biosensors & olfaction and a BS+MS from IISER Mohali. She has worked extensively in the area of agriculture research and biotechnology with research experience in biology data analysis across top universities like Max Planck institute & University of Minnesota.

Company:

Qzense

Transforming fresh food supply chain with data

Companies in the Press

QZense, founded via EF, Leverages High-Tech IoT To Fix Quality Control In Fresh Supply Chain

20 November, 2020

These women entrepreneurs aim to transform the fresh food supply chain in India and tap into a market worth US$2B

22 June, 2020

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Steven R Tsitas

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Pieter Fabry

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James Kent

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David Hunter

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Rubal Chib

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Rea Liu

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Yanlin Duan

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Olivia Stannah

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Dr Dom Pimenta

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Nikhil Mudholkar

Computer Science at IIT Bombay. Data engineering at Tier Mobility & Capital One.

Alexander Götz

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Hubert Ancelot

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Vladimir Stoyanov

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Arthur Sousa

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Konstantin Häfner

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Dilip Rajeswari

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Chris Gudde

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Kit Burgess

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Aakarsh Yadav

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Agrim Singh

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Samarth Shyam

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Kevin Yee

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Christoph Sträter

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Wilmer Daza

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Hector de Wazières

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Pulkit Agarwal

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Amir Nejadmalayeri

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Fraud data scientist

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Sam Shannon

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Wladimir Nikoluk

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Alex Tupper

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Atual Yadav

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Abhimanyu Godara

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Ollie Graham

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Shivani Shah

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Prateek Gaur

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Andrea Mambrini

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Nyasha Japondo

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Ting Lye

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Favour Nyikosa

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Jon Forester

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Tom Walker

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Tom Barber

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Jose Martin Quesada

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Harry Grieve

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Dr. Ben Fielding

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William Nash

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David Meyer

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Juan Barragan

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Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Renan Pereira

Data scientist, experience developing and managing scalable machine learning models

Barnaby Hussey-Yeo

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Tarik Dadi

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Dennis Xenos

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Abhishek Anand

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Award-winning data science with experience in product development and cybersecurity

Satyakama Paul

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Data scientist with PhD and postdoc in AI and experience in Machine Learning

Hardik Thakkar

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Shubham Kaushal

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Saptarshi Nath

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Rubal Chib

Electronics engineer, previously Havells and IOTA

Georgina Kirby

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Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

Nitin Shukla

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Aron Pettersson

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David Gorgan

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Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Avlokita Tiwari

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Carl Robinson

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Guillaume Rivals

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Samarth Shyam

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Jacob John

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Mohammad Reza Vedady

Award-winning engineer and pioneer researcher

Sivam Pillai

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Daniil Moskovtsov

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Jan Gasparic

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Aashish Mehta

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Gideon Farrell

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Morris He

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Chi Fung Lok

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Mislav Stipetic

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Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

Mo Shana’a

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Puneet Chhabra

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Experienced in LiDAR, Radar, and Sonar technologies, PhD in Electrical Engineering

Rubal Chib

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Nimantha Baranasuriya

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Saikrishnan Ranganathan

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Max Pagel

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Expert in wireless networks, previously Universität zu Lübeck