AboutI’ve been a CTO / CPO at various large and small companies (from Viacom / MTV to my own co-founded startups) in different industries, deploying consumer products for web, mobile, AR / VR as well as backend and production systems. My specialty is in designing forward thinking roadmaps for new technologies. While working in industry, I did my PhD on multi-agent distributed systems at Harvard and did intelligent user interface research at the MIT Media Lab. Currently I am teaching graduate-level courses (e.g., AI and Design, Design Engineering Studios, etc.) at Brown / RISD. […]
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ResearchRight now, I am most fascinated by the following questions:
- With AI rising, what should the next user interfaces look like? This is a great time to re-imagine (bloated) software UI and make it truly contextual and adaptive.
- What are the right toolings to build / run / monitor multi-agent systems? Attempts are appearing but it’s early days — winner(s) likely will use open protocols that developers adopt.
- How will agents negotiate and compete on our behalf? Many (including me) have worked on this topic for a long time; but were lacking agents that can reason and make decisions.
PublicationsI have published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals in several topics: distributed systems, multi-agent systems, mechanism design, sensor networks, information theory. […]
Teaching- Brown / RISD: Design Engineering Studios | RISD: Generative AI
Projects- Aeronaut (VR) | Glass Infrastructure (RFID) | Skill Stations (AR + CV)
Stacks- My LoRAs: Replicate | HuggingFace |
