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Hi... The name my parents gave me 'Shashank' and my family name Bishnoi', which, needless to say, happens to be a family heirloom, made me 'Shashank Bishnoi'. My pestering the creatures of earth began on nice (as I'm told) saturday evening in the last month of the year 1980. Born in the Indian city famous for two of its things, its looney bin and the Taj Mahal, I was soon picked up and moved to the city of Nawabs.
The following seventeen years saw me wandering on the streets of Hazratganj. I was a part of the senior high school bunch graduating out of the school that holds the record for the maximum number of students in one city, namely "City Montessori School". If you know the school and are wondering what branch I am from, then it was R.J.P.M. from K.G. to 6th grade, R.D.S.O. from 7th to 10th grade and L.D.A. Kanpur Road from 11th to 12th grade. So... after thirteen years of CMS, I passed I.S.C. council exams in the summer of 1998.
The following four years of my life, which I brand as the most happening and memorable for me, were spent trying to grasp the babble of the professors at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, studying Civil Engineering. Well... I was the one of the few in my class who did not have a deep rooted hatred for the profession before coming to this place... but as it turned out I was not alone while graduating... we had little regrets on our choice while graduating.
Talking about graduation, our timing of the same wasn't really the best... but we had no choice but to graduate in the summer of 2002... a time falling midst the great global economic turmoil.
However, I walked the plank and jumped. Before I could realize, I had jumped not only out of IIT, but also out of India. As May 2002 drew to an end, I managed to land into another boat called Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (without the french accents) in Lausanne, Switzerland. I worked there as a stagiere in the Laboratoire des materiaux de construction for three months and then jumped again to Japan.
After 2 years of research and a masters thesis in Concrete Technology, working at Uomoto Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, came the bigger change in my life... I got married... You can find pics of Ruchi here. So, then I did my Ph.D. at EPFL in Switzerland... and stayed there for whole 4 years! Ruchi and I ended up falling in love with Lausanne... but well we moved on... to Quebec city... and became three with Rhea finally arriving a week late making us a small family. We moved on again and are back in India now... no plans to move again! |
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