Anirudh Sharma

Anirudh is a researcher and inventor working on small on-device models, sensor fusion, and new materials to make physical objects and environments responsive to people. His research spans wearable navigation for the visually impaired, carbon capture and recycling, and augmented fabrication tools. Some of this work has moved from the lab into deployed products and ventures.

He currently leads Spatial AI at Amazon Lab126 (sensor fusion, on-device inference). Previously at Usefulsensors (founding team of Tensorflow / Google Brain), and Google and HP Labs (gestural input, stroke recognition). At the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group, he built AR interfaces on transparent displays under Prof. Pattie Maes, and co-led the India Initiative to bring design innovation to the country's grassroots. Published in ACM CHI, UIST, ICMI, and SIGGRAPH.

He founded Ducere/Lechal, India's first wearable tech startup, making haptic navigation shoes for the visually impaired (100K+ units, exited 2018). His spinoff Graviky sequesters carbon emissions from air pollution, recycling them into AIR-INK, a pigment that has sparked a global art movement. Used by 10,000+ artists, adopted by Stella McCartney, PANGAIA, Diageo's Johnnie Walker, and Mastercard. Part of the Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection.