"So, Um...12 Years, Huh?!" Parag Gupta at TEDxNorthwesternU 2014

Parag Gupta is a final-year PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at Northwestern University and holds a joint appointment as a guest graduate appointee in the Tribology Section at Argonne National Laboratory. He received a bachelors of engineering and masters of engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2002. Parag Gupta discusses his educational journey and self-discovery along the way.

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