User:Harsh S Bhatt/sandbox

Early Life
Jagruti and Shreyas Bhatt have brought an incredible individual Harsh into this world.

He was born on September 21, 1992. He spent most of his childhood and growing years in San Jose, California where he attended Evergreen Valley High School.

Starting off his undergraduate career at San Jose State University, he spent two years laying his foundation and love for computer sciences by taking some challenging courses: C Programming Concepts and Methodology, C++ Object Oriented Concepts and Methodologies, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Physics - Electricity & Magnetism, and Java. Deciding to take the road that most people don't travel by, he transferred to reputed University of California, Berkeley to complete his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Graduating from San Jose State University with a GPA of 3.98, and University of California, Berkeley with a 3.97, Harsh has become the youngest CEO of Google.

Career
Early Work

Math Enrichment

At Math Enrichment, Harsh spent three months from June 2012 to August 2012, explaining Algebra and Geometry concepts to high school students to promote greater mathematical understanding and academic success. He even offered encouragement and support to students, facilitated conflict resolution techniques, and acted as an instrumental as well as an expressive leader. His even communicated efficiently with parents through phone and email, and handled complaints and concerns in an effective, professional manner.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Washington University

In May 2013, Harsh got admitted into the prestigious REU program at Washington University. Here in St. Louis, he served as the Student Researcher working on the Parallel Platform for Real-Time Systems Project with Dr. Chris Gill, Dr. Kunal Agrawal, and Dr. Chenyang Lu. He even learned OpenMP and Intel Cilk Plus and made a presentation addressing key points and differences. By converting the entire platform from OpenMP to Cilk Plus, he ran many experiments in order to compare the Cilk Plus performance with OpenMP. Harsh played an influential role in changing the interface to support multiple non-consecutive cores, along with gaining knowledge of the PARSEC Benchmark Suite and converted the StreamCluster Benchmark to work on the platform. At the end of his research, he made a poster and gave a talk to all other Computer Science researchers and faculty in the university.

Apple

Harsh successful reached his dream in January 2014 to intern at Apple as their Software Developer in San Francisco Bay Area for 8 months. He developed benchmarks in Python to evaluate the performance of next generation products. Also he conducted experiments to measure performance of benchmarks and performed statistical analysis on results to improve reliability as well as usability. By developing a control framework to run directed experiments while controlling and monitoring all aspects of system performance, he worked on a large pre-existing codebase and integrated the code of the Mac OS X Product Release performance frameworks into the existing platform.

Google

Harsh reached his dream in September 2016 as he embarked his journey as Software Developer of Google. Managing teams and high-level projects, Harsh has impressed all of upper management and company executives to be honored with the title of Silicon Valley’s youngest CEO of Google. Making millions and soon to be billions, Harsh plans on revolutionizing the way we use computers today.

Personal Life
Harsh Bhatt married the one and only Katrina Kaif in September 2020. They both met at Google, she came to invest in some of the company technology while Harsh swept her off her feet as he charmed her with his intelligence of the world, his desire to the travel the world and explore new places, and his knowledge about Katrina’s life and career. Katrina was very much impressed to find someone so genuine, down-to-earth, and cultured. This is something she has been looking for her whole life.

Honors and Public Recognition
President's Scholar

Harsh was awarded as the President's Scholar by the Dean of Engineering in April 2013 for earning a 4.00 academic average in two contiguous semesters.

GoldenKey International Honor

In October of 2012, Harsh was recognized as the GoldenKey International Honor for being in the top 15% of his class.

Google - Youngest CEO 2016

In October of 2016, Harsh was recognized with the highest prestige and honor as Google’s youngest CEO.

Projects
Smart Robot

In December 2011, Harsh incredibly programmed a robot to simulate a fire escape plan where humans are represented as beacons. His robot could locate, grab, and bring beacons back to the starting point without crashing. As a leader, he managed a group of six on the mechanical design and helped build the Infrared receiver board. In addition, he developed an oral and written presentation to convey project design and outcomes. His work was recognized as he was awarded third place for finishing desired tasks the fastest.

Simon Says Game Board

In December 2012, Harsh diligently worked on programming a game board that that randomly lights up buttons in a specific order, reads the user’s button input, and tests to see if user’s input is the correct button. He spent hours focusing in on connecting software to hardware by using a multi-processor board and performed various hardware tasks such as building the board, adding sound effects, notifications, etc.