Positions and Affiliations

- Founder and Director of Jellow Labs. Project Conception, Research, Direction and Implementation – for Jellow Communicator, a friendly Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) solution that uses icons to aid communication in people learning to speak or with difficulty with speech and language.

- International Coordinator and Director, ‘Project Solar Eclipse' (and its applications outcome 'Project New Century'):[international cross-cultural projects relating to the Internet and the emerging technologies for children and other user groups; principal collaborators – the ‘Solar Project’, Edward James Foundation/West Dean College, Chichester, UK and the Falmouth College of Arts (FCA), Falmouth, UK]

- Senior Visiting Research Scientist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, involved with a research project on experimenting with Social Media called ‘The Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC)’ (2011 to 2016) - a collaborative initiative between IIT Bombay and the Universities from Singapore - NUS and NTU. COSMIC aims to empower communities, through social media innovations that improve the way they live, work and play.

- Independent Researcher working in the disciplines of Designing for Children, Interaction Design, Social Computing, Evolution of Design, Culture and Technology.

- Visiting Faculty for Interaction Design in Design Institutes: emphasizing the role of culture-design-technology factors in digital environments and inputs into problem space visualisation methods for out-of-the-box creative solutions.

- Adjunct faculty at IIT Jodhpur and UID Karnavati University

- Supervisor to several student design projects at IDC, IIT Bombay

- Advisor to Parsons Mumbai ‘Indian School of design and Innovation’ at Mumbai and ‘School of Design’ at Viswaniketan Institute, Khalapur, Maharastra

- Curator and co-designer (Concept, Visualisation and Direction) for the exhibition titled ‘Design Embedded – a Design Technology Experience’ held at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai from February 3rd to March 4th of 2018

- Founder, designinindia.net – an open design free and resourceful service on the net, providing resource on the world of design in India

- Project consultant for new technology issues to 'Composite Technologies', Bangalore and ‘Studio Printart’, Kolkata.

- Consultant and columnist on new technology issues for the architecture journal 'Indian Architect and Builder' (IA&B)

- Co-investigator with invited projects Herman Miller (2013), at the Social Computing Group, MicroSoft Research (MSR), Redmond, USA (2003, 2005, 2007); Yahoo Research, USA (2007); Interval Research Corporation, USA, (1996, 1997), Honeywell India (2018)

- Consultant Strategist for Microsoft India, 2006-2009, Consultant Strategist for Technology Applications, Motorola India Labs, 2005-2007, Consultant Strategist for Product Vision and Retail Space, Khadim’s Group, India (2004), Consultant Strategist for Retail Outlet Design, BPCL, India (2003-2004 and 2018-2019)

- Recipient of Senior Fellowship (2003-2005), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Government of India: Project entitled “A Cross-Cultural Computer-Mediated Collaboration Initiative”

- Founder, colorsofindia.com - a resource website for the 'project solar eclipse' and dreamsubmit.net - a service on the net meant primarily for webmasters

- Advisor ‘Artisana’ – a key initiative for artists and weavers.

- Advisor to INDIGO, the International Indigenous Design Network as part of International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) for its engagement with the Indian subcontinent.

- Founder member India Design Association (InDeAs).

- Core team member for the International events ‘Typography Day’, ‘Designing for Children’, ‘in a Planet of Our Own’, and ‘Design Education’.