Pan-IIT Southern California, Los Angeles

Smita Bagla, Pan-IIT Southern California (Los Angeles)

• Graduated from IITK in Mathematics, 1984
• Graduated from IITR in Computer Science, 1986

Smita Bagla is Sr. Architect/ Program Manager at United Health Group, the second largest medical insurance company in the country. She has previously held similar position at Amgen. From 1991 to 2000, Smita was a software product entrepreneur in Healthcare arena. She started her career as an AI specialist at UCLA Medical Center.

Smita has been very active in the IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee Alumni association.  In her current role as President of Pan-IIT Chapter in Southern California, she has led annual picnics for Pan-IIT and organized professional panels. Two of these events were in collaboration with Caltech.

Smita is also a joint recipient of community leadership award for West Coast in 2001.