Spotify Chat

Spotify Chat is a new feature that allows users to use a chat based interface for our content navigation. It allows users to create custom playlists from natural language or ask questions and get answers with examples from Podcasts.

Premium Value in India

Premium Value in India is a redesign of Spotify Premium to address the lack of premium conversions in Asia. We understand fandom to be a key feature in paid apps across Asia. We recreated Spotify Premium in India to address this need and are testing to see whether this feature can help gain more subscribers.

Spotify Play

Spotify Play is a next generation experiences that empowers non-musicians to create music by leveraging new in house AI diffusion models. This work is experimental and we are currently speaking to labels to see whether it’s something worth investing in.

AIR

Augmented Indexed Reality, better known as AIR, is the first social platform in Mobile AR that lets friends connect through objects in the real world. We believe we can give people the power to connect with friends in new, fun ways through objects — bringing the magic and meaning of digital and social connections to the world around you, today.

Omni

Omni is a Link-In-Bio NFT gallery for your social media. This work was a spinoff from AIR, shown above.

Members of Good

Omni is a virtual NFT gallery that helps you share your art in the most beautiful way, removing all of the unnecessary information that sites like OpenSea adds to your gallery. You can sync your MetaMask wallet, import your art, and move it around! Omni indexes your art so that you can share it with the world.

Infinite Window

Experiencing rich, interactive media is a heavy-lift for most people – lots of fancy hardware, apps, downloads, etc. How can we make hi-fidelity, real-time creativity easy for all? Infinite Window is a new technology that brings remotely rendered interactive experiences to the Facebook feed.

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Creative Pal

With over 80% of the new advertisers on our platforms not returning to advertise, reducing churn for small businesses is a company-wide priority. CreativePal is a plug-in assistant that uses AI to advise advertisers on the quality of their creative assets.

Monster Match

Monster Match is a game that that shows you how dating apps really work. It visualizes the effects of collaborative filtering, an algorithm that powers many of the dating apps out there. Of course, these algorithms have problems of their own which promote biases. This project was supported by the Mozilla Foundation. Learn more about it here.

Perkins+Will

I spent two years working at Perkins+Will as a Research Scientist. My role here was primarily in exploring new technologies and applying them in the AEC space. I really enjoyed my time working here and having the support of my manager to explore moonshot ideas at one of the largest architecture firms in the world.

Toward a Holobiont Urbanism

We are in constant symbiosis with the 100 trillion microbes in our gut and the complex system of bacteria around us in our environment. Within the field of metagenomics, it clear that understanding the built environment is necessary in order to learn more about ourselves as participants in this microbial ecosystem. By understanding the cities which we inhabit in from a bacterial point of view we can begin to discern the invisible qualities of cities. I want to understand the city asa biological organism, understand its bacterial ecosystem and visualize the invisible microbial world within the built environment. I propose a method of sampling biological material from cities by using honeybees (Apis mellifera) as a proxy to swab-based sampling methods.

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Google Arts & Culture

Look of Love

Using years in love as a parameter for the gaze duration, Look of Love captures the gaze of two lovers and manifests the data into an object. The objects are made with the participant’s anniversary material. In collaboration with Haelo Design, Zach Pino, and Sanaz Sohrabi, this piece is presented at the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial.

Argeebee

An additive color discovery tool.

Children are increasingly aware of the relevance of color in everyday interfaces. Today, introducing youth to Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) as an additive color model is just as important as teaching ROYGBIV (red orange yellow green violet indigo blue). Argeebee is a color matching game that introduces children to the RGB color model. The objective of the game is to match a random-generated color by manipulating the red, green, and blue values of the opposing side.