Aakanksha Saxena
Investment Banking Analyst (Tech M&A) at Centerview Partners
CS @ Stanford | Analyst @ Centerview Partners
I received my B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford. My years of computer science, venture capital, and investment banking experience have strongly piqued my interest in technology investment and advisory.

I spent years building my software engineering background and won numerous national and international competitions. I worked on machine learning projects at Intel and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and I am a published researcher, a two-time Google Science Fair finalist, Intel STS Semifinalist, JSHS National Qualifier, and Arizona Future Innovator of the Year. I was also admitted to Harvard, MIT, and Yale in addition to Stanford, and I was named a Congressional Award Gold Medalist, Coca Cola Scholar, and Duke University Robertson Finalist. During my time at Stanford, I became interested in technology investment and advisory and worked at Centerview Partners, Romulus Capital, and Sierra Ventures. I realized that bridging the gap between a technical CS background and a traditional finance background could be valuable. Along with applying my technical background to conduct due diligence on software investment opportunities with a focus on enterprise AI companies, I leveraged my CS background to build a data-driven sourcing system from scratch at Sierra Ventures. 

I would love to continue pursuing technology investment and advisory. Please feel free to reach out to me at asaxena1@stanford.edu.
Centerview Partners
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Investment Banking Analyst (Tech M&A)
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Computer Science 
Bachelor's degree
Stanford University
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Artificial Intelligence Concentration
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High School
Desert Mountain High School
Influence of substrate temperature on properties of pyrite thin films deposited using a sequential coevaporation technique
Thin Solid Films
A series of pyrite thin films were deposited in-situ in a monolayer-by-monolayer fashion using sequential evaporation of iron under high vacuum, followed by sulfidation at a sulfur pressure of 133 Pa, as a function of substrate temperature. The stoichiometry, crystallinity, topographic smoothness, and phase purity of the deposited pyrite thin films improve with increasing substrate temperature up to 420 °C, the highest temperature studied. Characterization of the films deposited at 420 °C using selected-area precession electron diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, and conventional X-ray diffraction indicated that the pyrite layer is phase pure, with no evidence of a secondary marcasite phase, and grew in columnar grains with a preferential (100) orientation on the (100) silicon substrates. This novel sequential evaporation technique has the potential to make useful low-cost semiconducting pyrite materials for large-area electronic applications.
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Non-STEM Awards
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1. National Merit Finalist (2017), National: I was ranked among the top 1% of high school students on the basis of my standardized test scores.  
2. Coca Cola Scholar (2017), National: I was selected as one of the top 150 community service leaders in the country. 
3. National AP Scholar Award (2016), National: Along with being an IB student, I have taken 10 APs with 9 5s. 
4. MIT Launch 2nd Place, International (2016): I was the CEO of Literacy Spree, the 2nd place team in the MIT Launch Club Program. 
5. Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key Winner (2016), State: I won the Silver Key for my critical journalistic entry, I’ll Buy One America, Please.
6. Prudential Spirit of the Community Award (2015), School: I was Desert Mountain High School’s Prudential Spirit of the Community Nominee for founding Literacy Spree, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with the mission of empowering underprivileged female students in developing countries through education.
7. Congressional Award Gold Medalist (2015), National: The United States of America Congress recognized me for demonstrating excellence in community service, personal development, and athletics. I was the only high school student selected from Arizona. I committed over 1000 hours to community service, 500 hours to personal development, 250 hours to athletics, and organized a four-day personal exploration of north India to better understand my heritage.
8. Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key Winner and Silver Key Winner (2015), State: I won the Gold Key for my science fiction piece The Seventy Sixth Coronation and the Silver Key for my political satire An Email from Mark Zuckerberg. 
9. MIT Launch Finalist (2015), International: My sustainability startup at MIT Launch was ranked among the top 5 companies created at the program. 
10. Scholastic Art and Writing Bronze Key (2014), State: I won the Bronze Key for my science fiction piece, The 11th Avenue Cemetery.
STEM Competitions
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1. Arizona State Math Contest (2016), State: I ranked in the top 10% in the highest division. 
2. Science Olympiad (2016), State: I received 1st place in Green Generation and 2nd place in Cell Biology.
3. Science Olympiad State Champion & National Qualifier (2015), National/State: I led my team to nationals for the first time in school history. At state level, I received 1st place in Technical Problem Solving and 3rd place in Cell Biology.
4. Scottsdale Community College Mathematics Competition First Place (2014), Regional: I won 1st place among 200 contestants.
5. MATHCOUNTS (2013), State: My team ranked 5th.
School Carbon Footprint Research Awards
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1. Google Science Fair Local Award (2014), International: "Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Academic Institutions to Address Systemic Inefficiencies" ranked among the top 115 research projects in the world.
2. Arizona State Science and Engineering Fair (2014), State: "Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Academic Institutions to Address Systemic Inefficiencies" won 2nd place in Environmental Science, the Governor's Future Innovator of the Year Nominee Award, and the ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Award.
3. Arizona State Science and Engineering Fair (2013), State: "School Carbon Footprint and Improvement Opportunities" won 1st place in Environmental Science, the United States Naval Science Award, the Association for Women Geoscientist Student Award, the Association for Women in Science Outstanding Female Scientist Award, and Broadcom MASTERS Nomination.
Solar Panel Optimization Research Awards
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1. Regeneron STS Top 300 Scholar (2017), National - "The Influence of Contaminants and Secondary Phases on the Optical Properties of FeS2, a New Candidate for Photovoltaic Cells” was ranked among the top 300 science research projects in the nation. This work also won the “Research Report” award and “Student Initiative” award. 
2. Arizona Future Innovator of the Year (2016), State - Selected by the governor as one of the top 4 high school innovators in the state.
3. Arizona Science and Engineering Fair (2016), State: "Detection of Secondary Phases in Iron Pyrite (FeS2) Thin Films" ranked 1st in Physical Energy and was nominated for Future Innovator of the Year.
4. Arizona Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (2016), State: "Influence of Contaminants on the Optical Properties of FeS2, a New Candidate for Photovoltaic Cells" ranked 4th and qualified for the national tournament.  
5. Google Science Fair Regional Finalist (2015), International: "Influence of Contaminants on the Optical Properties of FeS2, a New Candidate for Photovoltaic Cells" ranked among the top 90 projects in the world.
6. Arizona State Science and Engineering Fair (2015), State: "Influence of Contaminants on the Optical Properties of FeS2, a New Candidate for Photovoltaic Cells" won the Association for Women in Science Outstanding Female Scientist Award.
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