Rolly Seth

Rolly Seth currently leads the Redmond (HQ) operations of Microsoft Garage https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/, an outlet for experimental projects for Microsoft employees. Rolly is an electronics and communication engineer coupled with a liberal arts education. In 2011, she was selected among top 57 emerging leaders across India to be part of first batch of Young India Fellowship Programme, a joint initiative with University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Science (UPenn-SEAS).

She has about ten years of work experience in diverse fields, such as design, technology and management. Her interests lie in creative and interdisciplinary research work and has recently completed ’52 weekends of Making’ challenge. Some of her past projects have won several accolades such as one of the top 12 Asian Innovations of 2012 by the Wall Street Journal and Accenture Innovation Jockey. Rolly started her career as a Scientist Fellow at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an autonomous body under Ministry of Science Technology, Govt. of India and had other stints in research organizations- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Raman Research Institute.