I build things that teach people by putting technology in their hands — haptic simulators that let carpenters feel virtual wood, VR training systems that adapt to your stress levels, board games that teach coding to children in rural India, and robots that convince kids to wash their hands.
I’m an Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, working on applied AI and immersive technologies for industry. My current research focuses on two connected areas: building generative AI tools that help small and medium-sized enterprises with tasks like compliance checking, business process mapping, and customer support — with a growing interest in local and sovereign AI approaches — and developing XR systems for industrial skill training and product concept development, including using AI to accelerate XR training content creation. These areas increasingly overlap: AI is reshaping how we build immersive experiences, and XR provides rich contexts where AI agents need to be explainable and responsive.
Before academia, I led the Virtual Reality & Serious Games group at AMMACHI Labs, building VR training solutions for the Indian government and companies like Larsen & Toubro. That work — designing for illiterate and semi-literate learners, deploying in rural villages, collaborating across disciplines — still shapes how I think about technology.
I also teach — I’ve designed graduate courses on Python for machine learning and built a multiuser VR simulation for teaching agile project management, used by over 100 students at Aarhus University.
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Research interests
- Applied AI: generative AI for SMEs, agentic workflows, local/sovereign AI, AI-assisted business process mapping
- Extended Reality: XR for product concept development, AI-driven XR content creation, immersive VR skill training, haptics
- Human-Computer Interaction: tangible interfaces, serious games, social robotics
Education
- PhD — Aarhus University, Denmark (2020–2023)
- MCA — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India (2007–2010)
- BSc Computer Science — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India (2004–2007)