In 2002, Sankar received her undergraduate degree at IIT Kanpur and continued on to the University of Maryland to receive her Master’s degree in Computer Science in 2004. While studying at Stanford for her MBA (which she received in 2010), Sankar founded Piazza , an online platform where instructors and students come together to learn and teach.
Piazza offers a refined Q & A environment along with tools for effective course collaboration. Piazza was built to model the face-to-face interaction that happens inside the classroom.
Collaboration is a key component of this platform, and is achieved through wiki-style editing, endorsed posts, student-to-student learning and instructor feedback.
Piazza has turned into a ground breaking platform for students who are not comfortable asking questions or speaking up in class. The platform is now used by professors and instructors in more than 2,000 universities spanning 90 countries.
Prior to opening Piazza, Sankar spent time working with Facebook, Kosmix, and Oracle as a Software Developer.