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Dedication and Inspiration Mentor in Residence Meet some of the people and feel the spirit of the Kumbhathon. Ramakrishna R. Google Mentor in Residence The dedication of talented mentors with unique skillsets is one of the key things that makes the model work. Ramakrishna R a Stanford-educated Software Engineer currently employed at Google found himself caught up in the excitement of the Kumbhathon in Nashik. After visiting the Kumbhathon in July 2015 he and his wife whos a software engineer at Yahoo took leaves of absence from their respective jobs. They volunteered their time and signicant software expertise in areas such as analysis and visualization search indexing Google Mapmaker and developer infrastructure to the Kumbhathon effort. They advised and mentored several innovators and prepared them for a successful launch at the Kumbh Mela in August and September 2015. Crowd Steering Management Lavanya Addepalli and Nilay Kulkarni Crowd Management In anticipation of 30 million visitors to Nashik for the Kumbh Mela there was a huge need for crowd management. Utilizing modern technology such as mobile phones and Big Data two innovation teams worked on separate crowd management solutions both of which were invaluable to the government administrators at the Kumbh. And both solutions could be applied to other massive gatherings around the world from religious pilgrimages concerts and sporting events to rush hour in highly populated cities. Lavanya Addepalli Crowd Steering The leader of the Crowd Steering team Lavanya Addepalli is a PhD candidate who developed a sophisticated solution for tracking crowds throughout the city of Nashik. Working with Google mentor Ramakrishna she and her team created and presented a heat map with detailed visualizations showing crowd locations density and movement. They used data from mobile phone towers. The information was shared with administrative and government ofcials to anticipate and abate any problems related to large crowds. This solution continues to mature as Lavanya and her team consider other places and ways to deploy it. Lavanya is a PhD candidate at the Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain. Her research is about Architecture design and deployment of an online social network that uses data classication to provide relations built on trust. She holds an M.S. in Medical Software from Manipal University a B.A. in IT from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and a Diploma in IT from Mumbai Technical Board India. She performed her masters thesis and project in Charles University Prague Czech Republic. She has over 20 publications in various elds of research and serves as a reviewer of multiple journals. Learn more about Lavanya and about Crowd Steering.