Anumula Jithendar Reddy, our today’s IIT-JEE success story subject is the perfect embodiment of this sentiment, having topped the 2010 IIT-JEE advanced exams with All India Rank (AIR) 1, and later earning his Bachelors degree (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, he did not pursue a corporate career.
JEE success story: While most IIT graduates dream of securing a high-paying corporate job or becoming a famed engineer after completing their degree, there are a select few whose hunger for knowledge is never satiated and this drives them pursue education even after achieving exceptional academic success.
Anumula Jithendar Reddy, our today’s success story subject is the perfect embodiment of this sentiment, having topped the 2010 IIT-JEE advanced exams with All India Rank (AIR) 1, and later earning his Bachelors degree (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, he did not pursue a corporate career.
Instead Reddy’s thirst for knowledge drove him to pursue a Master’s degree (M.Tech) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, one of the world’s most prestigious institutions, and later a Phd from the Institute of Neuroinformatic, which is a joint program between ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich.
Jithendar Reddy education, early life
Anumula Jithendar Reddy was born in a middle-class family in Warangal district of Telangana (then Andhra Pradesh). Jithendar’s father, Ramachandra Reddy, was a professor at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), while his mother, T. Shobha, was a government school teacher, making the Reddy household a fertile environment for learning, where education was the topmost priority.
Jithendar completed his early education in his hometown and later joined the St. Gabriel’s High School, where he displayed his knack for mathematics and science.
After passing his Class 12 board exams with flying colors, Jithendar started preparing for IIT-JEE entrance test and ultimately topped the exam, one of the toughest in the country, with the coveted Rank 1 in 2010. Jithendar was admitted to IIT Bombay where he earned his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay Alumni to Phd scholar
After completing Bachelor’s degree, Jithendar, worked as an intern with QEA Eduventures, and later moved to the United States where he joined Caltech SURFriends – a budding tech firm – in California. However, unlike many of his peers at IIT Bombay, Jithendar decided not to pursue a corporate career, and instead focused on pursuing further education, which led him to ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where he completed his M.Tech degree in 2017.
Yet, Jithendar’s thirst for knowledge was not quenched and unlike your run-off-the-mill IIT alum who jump into corporate career right out of gate, the genius from Warangal took an alternate path, and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Institute of Neuroinformatic, with several groundbreaking research papers already under his belt.
Jithendar’s example is a testimony that knowledge, not money or corporate slavery, should be the ultimate goal of education.