Updates:  

• Aug 2005 - Joined Diebold Software at Mumbai 
• July 2003 - Joined IIT Bombay as Research Assistant
  
• May 2003 - BE (EC) Convocation
  
• Dec 2002 - Joined IIT Bombay for Training
• Sept 1999 - Joined DDIT Nadiad for BE (EC)

Awards:

• March 2006 - Appreciation award at Diebold Software
• 2005 - aAQUA strikes gold in Inovative E-content (e-Inclusion) at Manthan Awards...[view TOI news article
  
  

Biography:

• Born 1982 in a village called Khorasa (GIR) of Saurastra region, Gujarat, which is part of GIR Sanctuary. It is very famous for Asiatic LIONS (Kesari) and KESAR Mango.
• 1987 to 1997 - Standard 1 to 10 at my village's school
• 1997 to 1999 - 11th and 12th at RPTP Science College, Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Gujarat
  
• 1999 to 2003 - BE (EC) at DDIT Nadiad, Gujarat
  
• 2002 to 2005 - Working as Research Assistant at IIT Bombay, Maharashtra 

Projects:

• AgroExplorer - a Multilingual, Meaning-based Search Engine
• aAQUA - almost All QUestions Answered
  
• Text extraction and Splitter for HTML web pages
  
• AskMeq - an Online Question & Answer based Search System for DEP
  
• A Web based Devanagari Keyboard
  
• English Deconversion System ( UNL)
• Automatic Conference Call
• Standard Keyboard and Printer Interfacing using Microcontroller
• Selective Repeat Protocol
  

Publications:

• Satish Kagathara, Manish Deolalkar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, A Multi Stage Fall-back Search Strategy for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval, In proceedings of Symposium on Indian Morphology, Phonology and Language Engineering [SIMPLE 2005], IIT Kharagpur, India.
  
• Mrugank Surve, Sarvjeet Singh, Satish Kagathara and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, AgroExplorer: a Meaning Based Multilingual Search Engine, In proceedings of International Conference on Digital Libraries [ICDL 2004] Volume 2, Delhi, India.
  

Presentations: 

• Delivered a lecture on Concurrent Version System (CVS) - a Version Control Tool at CFILT, IIT Bombay. 
• Presented the AgroExplorer, Media LAb Asia at TECHFEST 2003 [Technology Festival] and Avenues 2004 [Business Festival] IIT Bombay.
• A Poster presentation of aAQUA on Simputer at Aagomani 2004 [The Embedded System and DSP Workshop] EE Department, IIT Bombay.
• Presented a paper on WAP [Wireless Application Protocol] at APOGEE 2001 [A Profession Oriented Gathering over Educational Experience] BITS Pilani, Rajasthan.

Extra Curricular:

• I was elected as Sports Secretary (2004-05) and Welfare Coordinator (2004) for Tansa House, IIT Bombay and actively participated in Intra-Inter hostel sports events.
• Participated in Production and Fine Arts Committee of PAF [Performing Art Festival] 2004 at IIT Bombay.
• Made a field visit to the Vigyan Ashram, Pabal - a Rural Development Kiosk.
• Participated in Organizing Committee of National Level Technical Students' Symposium - RESONANCE 2002 & 2003 at DDIT Nadiad, Gujarat.
  

Contact Me:

• Email: satishkagathara[at]gmail[dot]com (Replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .) 
• Home Page: http://satishkagathara.googlepages.com