Aditya Vishwanath

Aditya Vishwanath, from Chennai, India, will pursue a PhD in learning sciences and technology design at Stanford Graduate School of Education. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He aspires to a career designing and building educational technology for use in underserved communities around the world. As the founder and CEO of inspirit Consulting, a design firm focused on the instructional value of virtual reality, he has worked on projects in the US and India. He has also collaborated on a study with Google, exploring strategies to integrate low-cost virtual reality toolkits into a Mumbai school’s curriculum, and raised seed funding for OrchestrAI, a machine learning music startup. At Georgia Tech, he received the College of Computing Outstanding Junior award, and is a three-time recipient of the President’s Undergraduate Research award. He is a member of Stanford's Knight-Hennessy Scholars program.

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