A pall of gloom is descended on the residence of Arpana Jinaga, a software professional who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in United States few days ago.
HYDERABAD: A pall of gloom is descended on the residence of Arpana Jinaga, a software professional who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in United States few days ago.
Arpana, the elder daughter of Basavraj Jinaga, a professor at the city-based JNTU, was a topper in studies and had set her own mark in chip designing.
"She was a brilliant student and had a dynamic personality," was how her relatives and family friends said after consoling her parents at their house here.
Efforts are being made to get an emergency visa from the US Consulate in Chennai, a family friend of Jinaga's said adding the family of Nirmala Jinaga (mother of Arpana) from Gadag district in Karnataka, were distant relatives of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yedyurappa.
A young inventor in the highly technical field of chip designing, Arpana Jinaga, had emerged as one of the top 20 winners in Digital Signal Controller Design Contest by preparing the design for Communications Jammer.
The Hyderabadi girl was the only participant from Asia to have secured a place on the list, conducted at international level by Microchip Technologies Inc. in the USA in 2004.
Arpana wanted to do her PhD and enter the world of research in Electronics Engineering and planned to finally become a professor, family sources said.
While purusing her B Tech in Electronics and Communication, Arpana presented her project in the contest, based on the chip dsPIC30F, which was released by Microchips Technologies.
She had put a lot of effort to prepare the design for Communications Jammer, the chip was new and had never been worked on before.
Arpana worked from the scratch on the completion of the design and worked for almost 18 hours a day during the one-and-a-half month vacation period, they said.
It was the hard work that saw her through among the highly experienced experts, working in the field of embedded systems from America, Europe and Asia, family sources said.
Her design was declared the 16th best in the world, of all the designs they had received, for which she received a shield and the prize which was a 'Filter Design Software.'
After completing her Engineering, she had also stood third in the IEEE Student Design Contest conducted by IEEE Hyderabad, which was her first step in the field of embedded systems.
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