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Amar Mukunda

Masters Student in Engineering, admitted Winter 2024

BioAmar Mukunda is a current Masters student pursuing a degree in Energy and Infrastructure Engineering. Amar's overall focus is developing strategies to meet America's 21st century energy and infrastructure needs while alleviating poverty and creating intergenerational wealth in the country's most deindustrialized places. Amar's degree is focused on both the technical engineering aspects of a broad range of zero carbon technologies as well as the finance and legal aspects of building large energy projects.

Amar previously served as CEO of Mikran Investments, a small strategic investment firm which was acquired in 2018 for a 4x return over three years. Amar also served Assistant Director of Roca Baltimore, one of Baltimore city's premier gun violence prevention programs, where he ran the organization's workforce development and and education teams. Through his role at Roca Amar was a Bloomberg fellow at Johns Hopkins University working on understanding gun violence and addiction in Baltimore City from a public health perspective. From 2015-2016 Amar was a Fulbright Scholar researching artificial intelligence and machine learning in the field of natural language processing at Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, Switzerland. He graduated from Amherst College Magna Cum Laude in 2015 with majors in Computer Science and Geology.