Curriculum Vitae
Education and Experience
| 2018 to Present | Staff Engineer, Google Daydream |
| 2016 to 2018 | Senior Engineer, Google Daydream |
| 2014 to 2016 | Hardware Engineer, Google (Nest Labs) |
| 2013 to 2014 | 3dim Tech, Inc. CEO and Co-founder |
| 09/2010 to 05/2014 | Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge MA |
| 09/2008 to 06/2010 | Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge MA |
| 08/2007 to 05/2008 | Engineer, General Electric John F Welch Technology Center, Bangalore, India |
| 08/2003 to 06/2007 | Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India |
Awards and Honors
| 2016 | Featured in documentary titled The Future Makers, in a trilogy on Great Unsung Women of Computing: The Computers, The Coders and The Future Makers |
| 2014 | Cartier Women’s Entrepreneurship Award North America Finalist |
| 2013 | MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Winner |
| 2013 | MassChallenge Accelerator, Gold Prize Award Winner |
| 2013 | INK Fellow |
| 2012 | MIT Entrepreneurship Competition Pitch Contest Winner |
| 2012 | ACM SIGGRAPH student research competition finalist |
| 2011 | Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship winner for compressive depth acquisition camera |
| 2009 | Awarded LG Electronics graduate fellowship |
| 2003 - 2007 | Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation Scholarship |
Invited Talks
| The next tech for the smart-everything era, INK 2013 |
| Compact, low-power 3D gesture sensing using parametric processing of optical signals, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, 2013 |
| Mime: compact, low power gestural interaction with head mounted displays, UIST, Scotland, 2013 |
| Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera: Principles and Demonstrations, HP Labs, Palo Alto, 2012 |
Selected Press Articles
| BBC: Camera takes 3D photos in the dark |
| Boston Business Journal: BBJ Focus: 13 Cool Startups to watch |
| NewScientist: Gesture that smartphones can appreciate |
| Wall Street Journal: MIT Contest Winner 3dim Brings Gesture Control to Mobile Devices |
| Xconomy: Gesture Is the New Touch: A Report from the MIT $100K Competition |
| Wired: Augmented Reality: MIT’s Compressive Depth Acquisition Camera |
Education Initiatives
| Co-founded the Media Lab Design and Innovation Workshop series in 2011. Led the second workshop as President in New Delhi India 2012. |
| The Fellows Forum as part of Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users, 2008 |