Namitta Shankar, a master's student in the School of Information, has been named a 2011 Mayfield Fellow. The Mayfield Fellows program provides a year of mentorship and experience in technology entrepreneurship to UC Berkeley graduate students in business, engineering, and information; the fellowship includes a twelve-week summer internship at a technology start-up company.
Shankar is in her first year in the I School's MIMS degree program, where she is particularly interested in technology management, innovation, and entrepreneurship with a focus on privacy and security. She is also a candidate for Berkeley's interdisciplinary Management of Technology certificate.
Shankar joins nine other UC Berkeley fellows for 2011. The fellows will be studying best practices for entrepreneurship in emerging markets at high-tech companies in countries like China, India, and Japan.
Shankar will be interning with a leading Silicon Valley company during summer 2011. The Mayfield Fellowship is also arranging for her to be mentored by business and entrepreneurship professionals such as top Silicon Valley venture capitalists, scholars from the Haas School of Business, and executives within her internship company.
The UC Berkeley Mayfield Fellows Program is funded by the Mayfield Fund, a venture capital fund based in Menlo Park, California. The program is administered by UC Berkeley's Management of Technology Program and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previous I School recipients of the Mayfield Fellowship include second-year master's student Satish Polisetti, doctoral student Melissa Ho, and alumna Jeannie Yang (MIMS 2005).
