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Biography



Neil Gandhi is currently a sophomore at UCSD pursuing a degree in Computer Science and NanoEngineering. He is the Founder and CEO of Audograph.com, a site which allows users to stream and share music from SoundCloud over video chat. As a Thiel Fellowship finalist, he has two patents under his belt and placed third at the UCSD Zahn Prize competition.

Entreprenurship has been the focus of Neil's career since he started college. His current undertaking, Audograph, launched in September of 2014, and has already formed partnerships with major DJ's, such as DJ Skee of DashRadio, and other record labels. In building the site, Neil recruited students not only from UCSD, but also from other UC Schools. 

As a member of the University Innovation fellows, Neil's goal is to help promote computer science on his campus in hopes of helping other students pursue entrepreneurship. He beleives that knowledge in computer science is absolutely critical in any sort of business and wants to help pave the way for students to launch their own startups.