Name: Tara Elizabeth Thomas
Project: Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation of Factory Operations
Best Team in Sports: Indian Cricket Team
Favourite Vacation Spot: I like visiting places I haven’t visited before, but I think nothing beats the serene beauty of the Western Ghats and the backwaters of Aleppy!
Favourite Quote: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” (Dr. Seuss, The Lorax)
Music that I work to: Indian film songs, Christian devotional songs, English pop music
A paragraph about me:
I am a graduate student at Purdue University, pursuing my MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, focussing on Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems. At DCSL, I will be working on a project that aims to improve the efficiency and robustness of GE brilliant factories using data analytics and optimisation techniques. I completed my bachelor’s degree from National Institute of Technology, Calicut as one of the top students in the batch and then, worked as an IC Design Engineer at Broadcom Corporation for two years before joining for Masters. I am a simple, spontaneous, happy-go-lucky girl who loves to travel, read novels (especially crime and mystery based ones), solve logic puzzles and volunteer for social causes in my free time.