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Joseph Varikooty is a Co-Founder of Amber Agriculture, an Agtech startup focused on hardware-enabled food traceability for row crop agriculture, leveraging wireless sensors and IoT technology. As a Thiel Fellow since June 2018, Joseph is part of a prestigious program that promotes entrepreneurship among promising young innovators. Joseph also has experience as a Research Instrumentation Engineer at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rockefeller University, specializing in designing and prototyping custom mechanical and electrical devices for biological research. Additionally, Joseph worked as a Research and Development Engineer at Fitbit. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, earned between 2014 and 2017.
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