Shantha Mohan Ph.D.

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  • Carnegie Mellon University - Integrated Innovation Institute

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Volunteer Experience

  • CEGAANA Graphic

    Advisor

    CEGAANA

    - Present 1 year 10 months

    Education

    Upon completing my board term, I now serve as an advisor to the board.

  • CEGAANA Graphic

    Director of Career, Eduation, and Entrepreneurship

    CEGAANA

    - 5 years 3 months

    1. Build a community to connect and foster collaboration with CEG Alumni Professionals
    2. Create awareness of CEG brand
    3. Contribute to the growth of the institution
    4. Funding to explore new frontiers in engineering and technology
    5. Facilitate bringing industry research projects to CEG staff & students

  • Friends of the Palo Alto Library Graphic

    Board Member

    Friends of the Palo Alto Library

    - 2 years 8 months

    Social Services

  • Toastmasters International Graphic

    District 4 Administration Manager, 2019-2020

    Toastmasters International

    - 1 year

    Education

  • Society of Women Engineers Graphic

    Mentor, Volunteer

    Society of Women Engineers

    Science and Technology

  • Carnegie Mellon Women's Association Graphic

    Mentor, Barbara Smith Women's Mentoring Program

    Carnegie Mellon Women's Association

    - Present 5 years 8 months

    This staff-to-staff mentoring program is an opportunity to engage with a fellow CMWA member in conversations around professional interests and aspirations including career advancement, educational opportunities, and job-related issues.

  • Volunteer

    SMART program

    - 1 month

    Education

    SMART Evaluation Panelist (Academia)
    https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart

Publications

  • Roots and Wings: Inspiring Stories of Indian Women in Engineering

    Notion Press

    Are you wondering if engineering, science, or business will work as a career choice for a young woman? Do you question if a woman can pursue a successful career in these fields while enjoying a satisfying family life and still find a way to make meaningful social contributions? Then this book, which chronicles the lives and careers of women who managed to do just that, is the one for you.

    These 29 women all graduated from the oldest engineering college in India sometime between 1943 and…

    Are you wondering if engineering, science, or business will work as a career choice for a young woman? Do you question if a woman can pursue a successful career in these fields while enjoying a satisfying family life and still find a way to make meaningful social contributions? Then this book, which chronicles the lives and careers of women who managed to do just that, is the one for you.

    These 29 women all graduated from the oldest engineering college in India sometime between 1943 and 1971. This was a difficult time for these pioneering women to pursue their chosen path, yet they all went on to make their mark in their unique ways in various fields of work in India as well as the USA. Overcoming several obstacles to their careers, they managed to find a good balance between family and work. A few were, and are, also great community leaders. Their lives are models of courage, initiative, perseverance, innovation, entrepreneurship, resilience and flexibility.

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  • Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise

    Routledge Press, Taylor & Francis Group

    Our book demystifies AI for the enterprise. Our journey takes the reader from the basics (definitions, state of the art, etc.) to a multi-industry journey, and concludes with validated expert advice on everything an organization and its people must do to succeed. Along the way, we also debunk myths, provide practical pointers, and include best practices with appropriate vignettes.

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  • Leadership Lessons With The Beatles: Actionable Tips and Tools for Becoming Better at Leading

    Taylor & Francis

    Leadership has gone through many changes in the last couple of decades. We have realized that outstanding leadership is not about being authoritarian and exercising control. It is not only about the intelligence quotient (IQ) but also about emotional intelligence. To be an exceptional leader, you need several essential skills, all of which you can learn. The skills are nuanced with emotional intelligence, which you can gain. This book is unique: the author weaves leadership ideas with the song…

    Leadership has gone through many changes in the last couple of decades. We have realized that outstanding leadership is not about being authoritarian and exercising control. It is not only about the intelligence quotient (IQ) but also about emotional intelligence. To be an exceptional leader, you need several essential skills, all of which you can learn. The skills are nuanced with emotional intelligence, which you can gain. This book is unique: the author weaves leadership ideas with the song titles of The Beatles, making this book fun, playful, thoughtful, and valuable. Each chapter is organized with the key message on a leadership attribute prompted by a Beatles’ song title, tips on becoming better on the topic, a practice suggestion, questions to ask yourself to think about the message, and resources for more reading. The author begins each chapter with how and why she chose the song and includes fun facts. It’s an engaging book that blends the words of perhaps the greatest rock band ever—The Beatles—with the basic principles for becoming a better leader.

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Patents

  • Apparatus and method for authenticating products

    Issued US 7850081

    Other inventors
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  • System and method for authenticating products

    Issued US 8464947

    Other inventors
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  • Computer integrated manufacturing techniques

    Issued US 7069101

    13 inventors from FAB300 team (only 10 allowed in LinkedIn) : Arackaparambil; John F. (San Carlos, CA), Chi; Tom (San Jose, CA), Chow; Billy (Menlo Park, CA), D'Souza; Patrick M. (Mountain View, CA), Hawkins; Parris (Pleasanton, CA), Huang; Charles (Union City, CA), Jensen; Jett (Campbell, CA), Krishnamurthy; Badri N. (Mountain View, CA), Kulkarni; Pradeep M. (Sunnyvale, CA), Kulkarni; Prakash M. (Sunnyvale, CA), Lin; Wen Fong (San Jose, CA), Mohan; Shantha (Palo Alto, CA), Nandy; Bishnu (Union…

    13 inventors from FAB300 team (only 10 allowed in LinkedIn) : Arackaparambil; John F. (San Carlos, CA), Chi; Tom (San Jose, CA), Chow; Billy (Menlo Park, CA), D'Souza; Patrick M. (Mountain View, CA), Hawkins; Parris (Pleasanton, CA), Huang; Charles (Union City, CA), Jensen; Jett (Campbell, CA), Krishnamurthy; Badri N. (Mountain View, CA), Kulkarni; Pradeep M. (Sunnyvale, CA), Kulkarni; Prakash M. (Sunnyvale, CA), Lin; Wen Fong (San Jose, CA), Mohan; Shantha (Palo Alto, CA), Nandy; Bishnu (Union City, CA), Yuan; Huey-Shin (Cupertino, CA) .

    Other inventors
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Honors & Awards

  • Distinguished Alumnus 2020, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, India

    Alumni Association of CEG

  • Women in IT New York 2019 - Editor's Choice Award

    Women In IT Awards Series

    Organised by business technology site Information Age, the awards were launched as a platform to celebrate women in technology. Since its launch, in 2015, the Women in IT Awards have showcased women in technology in London, New York, Ireland and Silicon Valley.

  • K-Award, 2019 - Chronicler of CEG

    Kurukshetra CEG

    Kurukshetra is an international techno-management fest conducted annually by the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a four-day event organized by the college's technical body, the CEG Tech Forum (CTF). https://www.facebook.com/kurukshetraceg.org.in

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • Vaanga Pesalam

    VP PR

    - Present

    Bilingual Tamil - English Toastmasters club.

  • Toastmasters - Early Risers

    VP, Public Relations, 2019

    - Present
  • Society of Women Engineers

    Life Member

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