Meet the Founder of SheSoft

Kirthi Kumar

Kirthi is a Senior at the University of California, Berkeley, and studies Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Business Administration with a dual degree in the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (M.E.T.) program, with a minor in Public Policy. Her emphasis is on artificial intelligence and robotics, including coursework in optimization models and probability theory. Outside of class, she is an officer at UC Berkeley's Society of Women Engineers, where her work is focused on corporate events that connect students to many events and opportunities across the Bay Area. She is also Vice President of Student Resources on the M.E.T. Student Board. In her free time, she is highly involved in the Associated Students of the University of California (student government), works on various technical research projects, and enjoys kayaking.

 In the past, Kirthi has been awarded for her technical research and work done to bridge the gender gap in technology. She was recently named a National Honorable Mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Research Award, and an Honorable Mention for the Council on Undergraduate Research's Posters on the Hill. Her technical research spans multiple fields and subsets of computer science including mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence, computer vision, building drones, and interface design.