Jeffrey Immanuel

Experience

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  Jeppiaar Engineering College

  Aug 2013 - Apr 2017

  Student
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  Central Inter Disciplinary Research Facility

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Research Intern

  Worked on a research project on gene expression of toll like receptors (TLR) in dengue infected patient's DNA samples.The work from the project was published in the journal Immunological Investigationshttps://doi.org/10.1080/08820139.2019.1653908

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  Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, IIT Bombay

  Jul 2017 - Jun 2019

  Student

  Finished with a CGPA of 9.35.Was nominated for the prestigious Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal award (unfortunately didn't get it)Thesis Title: Amidst Evolving Human Geographies: Learning to walk against the tideWorking Publications:1. From Fishers to Fish Farmers: Key drivers, actors and perspectives amidst evolving Human Geographies2. From the waters to the plates: The travails of a shrimp in a glocal economyPublished:Into the sea with Regulations: Coastal Regulation Zone 2018https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/10/discussion/coastal-regulation-zone-2018.htmlTwo years at CTARA were the most productive days of my life (so far). Show less

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  Coastal Resource Centre

  May 2018 - Jul 2018

  Summer Intern

  Worked on collecting sector wise baseline data for a particular village in the Pulicat lake area by conducting PRA activities and individual household surveys using mobile data collection apps like ODK and OSM tracker.Prepared the resource map and salinity map of the village on GIS.Mapped the entire Pulicat lake along with the shrimp farms on the border of the lake stretching from Sri harikota in the north to my village in the south.

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  4th Wheel Social Impact

  Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

  Research Associate

  Involved in evaluation of several CSR projects over my tenure - from Literature Review to Tool Development to Data Collection, Cleaning, Analysis and Reporting.Also enabled the organization to shift the data analysis from MS Excel to R and semi-automate the process for a long term monitoring and evaluation project using different packages in Rstudio and Rmarkdown.

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  Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay

  Sept 2020 - Jan 2021

  Junior Research Fellow

  Conceptualizing Critical GIS Participatory Mapping , Co-Production of Knowledge and Ontological Politics in the TAPESTRY project.TAPESTRY stands for ‘Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments’.Details on the larger project and regular updates can be found here:

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  ImpactPod

  Aug 2021 - now

  Consultant

  Impact Pod is an initiative by alumni from IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta to support organizations in the social impact space through consulting services with the help of a collaborative network of diverse and experienced professionals across the industry. It aims to support non-profits, grass-root agencies, and social enterprises in every step of their journey to create impact at scale.

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  Rutgers University

  Aug 2021 - now

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Studying caste and the reproduction of caste in modernity at the undercommons of the university