Piyush Verma is the Founder and CEO of the Manush Labs. It is a social impact accelerator that empowers India's innovators and entrepreneurs. He is from the United States.
MANUSH LABS:- https://www.manushlabs.co/
EDUCATION
Piyush earned his schooling education from Maharishi Vidhya Mandir Senior Secondary school. After that, he joined the School of planning and Architecture Bhopal for Architecture studies. He got a Master's of design studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He completed his Master's of Science in Design, technology, and entrepreneurship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Finalist, National level inter-college table tennis competition in 2012
- Berkeley undergraduate prize for Architectural design Excellence 2013 by University of California Berkeley
- Editor-in-chief in 2013 by Design for all, India
- Member of Editorial team by Center for Human-centric research, SPA Bhopal in 2013
- Winner - Integral Studio in 2013 by UC Berkeley the USA
- 3rd prize in IGBC Green building design competition in 2013
- Student excellence award in 2014
- Scholarship student, Dwell 2014 and Dwell 2015 by Charles Correa foundation in 2014
- Finalist(Top 6), student charrette, World Architecture festival 2014
- Finalist(Top 7), student charrette, World Architecture festival 2015
- Finalist - The lnlaks Foundation scholarship in 2016
- Finalist - UK commonwealth scholarship 2017-18
- Winner, MIT Tata fellowship in 2018
- Fellow, Harvard Innovation labs in 2019
- Winner - MIT Sandbox Fund in 2019
- Finalist - MIT DesignX in 2019
- Spring 2020 Cohort - MIT Innovation initiative in 2020
- Global Finalists, MIT Creative Arts competition in 2020
- The Nudge - Foundation - Center for Social innovative grant recipient in 2020
- Piyush featured in Forbes 30 under 30, YourStory, and many more startup or entrepreneurship articles
ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY
Piyush has spent the last five years working at multi-disciplinary organizations around the globe, including MIT D-Lab, MIT data center for Advance Urbanism, MIT Media labs, IBM Design studios Germany, X-studios Tsinghua University China, University of Sydney, Australia, and IIT Delhi, India.
As a researcher at MIT and consultant with the world bak, Government of India he worked on a large-scale water planning project. His role included qualitative and quantitative research, developing and strategizing a novel model of water planning for the world bank to ensure safe drinking water and improved sanitation services for the people of Maharastra.
The project merges top-down and bottom-up processes and impacts policy decisions on a national scale while impacting the lives of those millions of people in rural India.
Piyush is also the founding head of the MIT India Initiative. An initiative bringing researchers from MIT and Harvard together with hundred of students and social impact global organizations to solve the pressing social problems of India.
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He is the Establisher of the startup Manush labs. It is an interdisciplinary collaborative startup that attempts to solve deep-rooted issues of Indian society by empowering innovators and entrepreneurs with information access, network, human-centered design, and a system thinking approach.
Startup's experts come from 11 countries and 41 global and national organizations.
In the future, The startup's goal is to create a vibrant and inclusive community of entrepreneurs in India. They are on a mission to help individuals who are trying to combat humanity's most [rssing challenges and make a sustainable social impact.
We believe that societies can be transformed through 'humane' entrepreneurial interventions that go beyond business profitability.
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