ABOUT
नमस्ते | ನಮಸ್ತೆ | 你好 | 안녕 | ہیلو | Hola | Bonjour | Hello!
I am a Red Dot award-winning strategic product designer with 8+ yrs. of experience and a double gold medallist alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and NIFT.
Currently placed with Samsung Electronics as a Lead Designer for AI-based products and services revolving around Metaverse, Intelligent Phygital Products. Prior to that, I have helped many MNCs like Decathlon, Jindal, and TATA group for designing products ranging from wearables, home appliances, sports gear, and lifestyle décor in different capacities.
I'm also a visiting Jury, speaker, and faculty at premiere Design schools in India such as NID, IIT Bombay, NIFT, and Symbiosis Institute of Design.
I love traveling and being constantly inspired by mother nature, people & new technologies.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2013 - Present
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS,
LEAD DESIGNER
June 2018 - Present
Leading a team of UX, and GUI designers in collaboration with PM, Dev, Sr. Management to drive innovation in the following project domains:
- Gen AI, LLM
- Metaverse
- C-Lab Incubator (Samsung’s in-house Startup Incubation Programme)
- Voice Intelligence & Bixby Services
- On-Device AI + ML
- IoT Multi-Device Ecosystem
TITAN COMPANY LTD.
MASTERS GRADUATE INTERN
June 2017 - January 2018
Masters Graduation project for smartwatches and wearables which happens to be a finalist in Red Dot Awards 2021 and Lexus Design Award 2019 in two categories (Product Design & Accessory Design)
GODREJ & BOYCE
MASTERS GRADUATE INTERN
June 2016 - July 2016
Worked with Appliance Innovation Cell for IoT based smart kitchen appliances
ARTD'INOX - JINDAL LIFESTYLE LTD,
ASSISTANT MANAGER
August 2014 - June 2015
Managed product design in the lifestyle decor field.
5+ products designed are in stores since 2014
DECATHLON INDIA
PRODUCT DESIGNER (FULL TIME)
January 2014 - August 2014
Managed product design for sports equipment, speciality footwear for cricketers
10+ products in stores across Decathlon retail stores and over online channels since 2014
TATA ELXSI
BACHELORS DESIGN INTERN
January 2013- May 2013
Worked with Experience and space design team under the leadership of Puneet Singh and Narendra Ghate, Chief Designer Tata Elxsi during graduation project
LOUIS PHILIPPE,
BACHELORS DESIGN INTERN
June 2012 - July 2012
Summer internship for space design projects for LP stores
MY EDUCATION
Where I went to gain knowledge and competence
Masters in Design - Industrial Design
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, AHMEDABAD
GPA: 8.91
Exchange Semester
HAUTE ÉCOLE DES ARTS DU RHIN, MULHOUSE FRANCE
Awarded exchange semester from NID
GPA: A grade
Bachelors in Design - Lifestyle Accessory Design
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY, BANGALORE
All India NIFT Topper
GPA - 9.31
Diploma in Fine Arts
KORNIK, RABINDRA BHARATI UNIVERSITY
WB
GPA - Distinction
AWARDS + RECOGNITIONS
At Global & Indian platforms
RED DOT "BEST OF THE BEST"
SINGAPORE
2021
Red Dot awards, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of design. Also considered as Oscars equivalent in the design field. Out of 5000+ global entries from premier design studios, only 60 projects were awarded "Best of the Best" in Design Concepts 2021.
RED DOT AWARDS
FINALIST
2021
Finalist in Smart wearable category for Product Concept
RENDER WEEKLY X KEYSHOT 3D
USA
2021
Winner of a motion design challenge run by Renderweekly in collaboration with the Luxion Keyshot 3D USA. Only 5 entries have been awarded Keyshot license and recognition on their platforms
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD
INDIA FINALIST
2021
Finalist in product design concept category in 2021 India edition
SAMSUNG C-LAB
STARTUP INCUBATION PROGRAM
2019
Winner for Samsung in-house start-up incubation program for an artificial intelligence-based mobility project (Product + Service Design). the winner gets an opportunity to travel to Seoul and pitch their project to get spin-off funding from Samsung.
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD
INDIA FINALIST - PRODUCT DESIGN
2019
India finalist in product design category for Titan Mettis - smart Toe ring project
LEXUS DESIGN AWARD
INDIA FINALIST - DESIGN THINKING
2019
Finalist in Design Thinking category for system design project
RSD 7 - TURIN ITALY
RESEARCH PAPER PUBLISHED
2018
The system design project was selected for paper presentation at RSD 7 - Systemic Design Symposium Turin Italy and the paper is published in open research at OCAD University, Toronto
SAMSUNG EDGE PROGRAM
INDIA
2017
Winner of the Samsung EDGE Business case cum product design competition. It was a multi-phase competition with the campus, zonal and final round where 10 finalists presented their project to Samsung's senior management from Seoul Korea and India.
WINNER - 25 UNDER 25
TATA GENX NANO, INDIA
2016
Awarded "Upcoming Designer" under 25 years sponsored and organized by Tata Motors and Campus Diaries
100% SCHOLARSHIP
CREATIVE ACADEMY, MILAN ITALY
2013
1200 Euros Scholarship for M.Des studies
TATA ELXSI
BEST GRADUATION PROJECT - NIFT
2013
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GOLD MEDAL
STUDENT OF THE YEAR - NIFT
2013
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GOLD MEDAL
BEST ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AWARD - NIFT
2013
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WINNER
MOST EXEMPLARY APPLICATION OF DESIGN METHODOLOGY - NIFT
2013
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