Teaching
Brief history
Assistant Professor, Somaiya School of Design (2022 – present)
Industrial Designer and Creative Technologist involved with Materials, Emerging Technologies and Product Design. Interested in Computationality, Materiality and History.
Visiting Faculty, Somaiya School of Design (2022)
Visiting Faculty, NMIMS School of Design (2022)
Assistant Professor, NMIMS School of Design (2018 – 2022)
Visiting Faculty, NMIMS School of Design (2018)
Talks, Workshops and Mentoring
Assistant Professor, Somaiya School of Design (2022 – present)
Lead Faculty for Tangible Product Specialisation and Technology FabAcademy Instructor and FabAcademy Coordinator for SSD (2024 – present)
Roles :
- Curriculum development
- Lab Incharge : Digital Fabrication Lab, Workshop, Electronics Prototyping Lab
- Lab Staff Training : CAD Modelling, Digital Fabrication, Electronics Prototyping, Coding
- FabAcademy Instructor and FabAcademy Coordinator for SSD’s FabAcademy Program
Modules :
Technology
- Creative Coding
- Physical Computing
- Data Visualisation
- IOT for Design
- Emergent Technologies
Product Design
- Form Studies
- Modelmaking and Prototyping
- Manufacturing
- Product Semantics and Object History
- Product Interactions
- Lighting Design
- Furniture Design
- Packaging Design
Material Explorations and Digital Fabrication
- Paper
- Mould making and Casting
- Laser cutting
- 3D Printing and CAD (Fusion360, Rhino)
- CNC machining
Assistant Professor, NMIMS School of Design (2018 – 2022)
Roles :
- Curriculum development
- Lab Incharge : Digital Fabrication Lab, Workshop, Electronics Prototyping Lab
- Lab Staff Training : CAD Modelling, Digital Fabrication, Electronics Prototyping, Coding
- Library liason
Modules :
Product Design and Technology
- Connected Experiences (Project : Design Solutions based on IOT Systems) (Year 3)
- Simple Product Design (Project) (Year 2)
- Interaction Design (Project) (Year 2)
- Sensorial Design (Project) (Year 2)
New Media
- Data and Data Visualization (Year 2)
- Physical Computing (Year 2)
- Creative Coding and Generative Art (Year 1)
Design Fundamentals
- Design Theory (Year 1)
- Ideation and Prototyping (Project) (Year 2)
- Form Explorations (Year 1)
- CAD Basics (Year 2)
Talks, Workshops And Mentoring :
SECIP (Monash University x Maker’s Asylum)
Mentor at SECIP 11.0 (Jan 2026)
Mentor at SECIP 12.0 (Jun 2026)
Virtual Creative Coding Fest, Sep 2025 :
Tracing the storyline - Generative Stories through code
Closing the Circle - Making Generative Art Tangible
FabConference Workshops :
From Prototype to Product: A Hands-on Workshop for Makers Entering the Market(Fab25 conference, Czech Republic, Aug 2025)
Digital to Physical - Making generative art tangible (Fab24 conference, Mexico, Aug 2024 - proposal accepted)
Product Design and Design Thinking
Design Thinking Mentor at Vernacular Innovation Program, NITI Aayog
(Dec 2021 – 2023)
NEXT Eduthon by MakeShift EDC (Jun-July 2020)
- Talk on Design Thinking
- Workshop on The Design Process
Digital Fabrication and Design
Workshops on 3D modelling and 3D printing at Maker’s Asylum (2014 – 2019)
- Autodesk Inventor
- Fusion 360
Workshops on Lasercutting with various applications at Maker’s Asylum (2015 – 2019)
- Lasercutting for Prototyping
- Origami with Lasercutting
- Lasercut Lights and Lamps
- Jewellery design and production
- Paper prototyping and packaging design for the lasercutter
Mentor at STEAM School, Maker’s Asylum
- STEAM 2016, STEAM 2017 and STEAM 2018
- STEAM Fabrikarium, 2018