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Creativity, Learning, Productivity

Machine Human Collaboration


Mind, Body, Society

Future Worlds


Bio

Dhairya Dand there-ya dan

b. 1989, Nasik
American x Indian, living in NYC since 2016
via Singapore, Tokyo, Cambridge, Seattle

Dhairya Dand is an award winning multi-disciplinarian based in NYC. Previously running ODD Industries, HCI researcher at MIT, Amazon's moonshot C-Lab (Alexa devices), engineering at Google, scientific advisory board at the XPRIZE Foundation and an artist at the NEW Museum in NYC, Keio-NUS CUTE Center in Singapore and in Phnom Penh. Graduate of Sciences and Arts at MIT.

He was a finalist for the Smithsonian’s National Design Award, part of the Forbes ’30 under 30’ list twice, was named as the first WIRED UK Innovation fellow ‘innovators who will change our world’ and an INK Fellow, part of Globe’s ‘Top 25 Innovators’ list, ELLE’s ’20 Names To Know’ list, Vogue’s ‘Cool People’ list. His work has been exhibited at the Tokyo Design Week, CHI Paris, TEI Barcelona among others. He has also given several talks around the world. Loves cooking, cycling and history.



photo credits: Andrea Kristinsdóttir

 

CV


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Smithsonian Finalist for the National Design Award, 2014
FRSA UK Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 2023
WIRED UK Innovation Fellow, 2014
NEW Museum / NEW INC 1 year residency, 2017
Forbes Asia 30 under 30 : Manufacturing and Energy, 2016
Forbes 30 under 30 : Design, 2015
INK Fellow : Global and cross-disciplinary path-breakers, 2014
Future of Storytelling USA Fellow, 2015
Boston Globe Top 25 innovators, 2013
Most Contagious UK Ones to watch in Technology, 2013
ELLE 20 names to know, 2016
Vogue India Cool People, 2015
Bleeker US Fellow, 2017
Texas Instruments Design Challenge 1st Prize, 2009
IBM TGMC Top 20, 2008

Select Talks

Harvard University
MIT
Forbes Summit
WIRED Conference
Amazon
Tencent
Parsons
CMU
NYU Tandon
Creativity Conference
FITC
TEDx Berlin, Hamburg, Klagenfurt
NTNU
MIT Museum
Tokyo Design Week
Singapore Arts House
INK Talks
Kyoorius
72andSunny
HOK
Smart Kitchen Summit
Second Home
etc

Currently

Experimenting
D& 

Advisor
MIT Media Lab
Foster America
Theater Mitu

Teaching
 Speculative Archi-scapes with filmmaker Anand Gandhi, CEPT, Spring 2025


Prior

Work
 ODD Industries, Amazon, Google, University of Tokyo, Keio-NUS, IDC etc

Advisor
XPRIZE Foundation, Moonshot Pirates

Education
Massachusettes Institute of Technology 
Master of Science (S.M. MAS)
advisor Prof. Pattie Maes



Like to observe. Like to make things. Trained in science. Self-taught in design. Work is never done only iterations are. Curious about most things. Thinking and doing are the only way. Like to meet new people. Like to meet new animals. In constant search for truth and beauty. Mind and hand are one. Mens et Manus. Nice to meet you. Nicer in person. Pronounced as there-ya dan.