Om is an interaction and visual designer from the California Bay Area. His research interests include creating tools and spaces that encourage kindness, sincerity, and connection, especially among young people.

Before CCC, Om spent a decade as a founding designer and consultant for dozens of emerging technology startups and teams around the world. Projects ranged from a computer vision model that helps neurosurgeons detect strokes, to a text-to-3D LLM for the video game Fortnite, to a robotic arm that gives tattoos.

He received his B.A. from Middlebury College in “Humane Design,” a custom major that explored human-computer interaction through the lenses of ethical philosophy, emotional psychology, sensory neuroscience, public policy, and ecology.

Outside of school, he volunteers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (ask him about horseshoe crabs!), lifts weights, and finds frequent excuses to drive up to coastal Maine with his fiancé.