| Shishir Gundavaram | Shishir Gundavaram (pronounced she-sheer goon-da-vaar-um) is what he likes to call a "scholar-athlete." On the athletic side, he plays tennis and basketball, but his true passion is running. He started out as a long distance runner, but after numerous injuries became a sprinter. He competes in four events: the 100, 200, 400, and 800 meters, though his favorite event is the glorious one: the 100m. He hopes to compete at the international level, possibly the Olympics, for his native India.
On the scholarly side, Shishir graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in biomedical engineering in May of 1995. For his undergraduate thesis, he developed a Windows application for the Motor Unit Lab of the NeuroMuscular Research Center that allowed researchers to acquire and analyze muscle force output from patients to indirectly observe the electrical activity of muscles. He currently works for Viable Internet Solutions, Inc. (VISO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developing applications and tools involving Internet Commerce. |
