Ishaan Lyngdoh Pakrasi

I am roboticist by training, I work as a Product Manager and I masquerade as an artist. Welcome to my website!

Work

I am a currently a Product Manager at AWS. My team owns the infrastructure, processes and software that meters customer cloud usage, turns it into a number and in turn makes that number as easy to pay as possible. I previously co-founded caali.xyz with the aim of making accessible household robots. We were funded by the National Science Foundation’s Innovation-Corps incubator and our largest delivery was to the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago.

Academia

I did my BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Go Illini!) where I worked on making dancing robots at the RAD Lab. Here's a TED Talk by my friend and collaborator about some of our work (You can spot me in the last 10 seconds with the robot that I programmed for the talk!). Here’s a list of my academic publications.

Art

I love to make art. Here's a video that outlines some of my art style, and a link to my Rarible. 

I work as the Digital Experience Lead at the REVIVE Collective, a Chicago based art consultancy where I build digital experiences using augmented and virtual reality. Here’s a video to a recent event.

I previously co-created Time to Compile, an interactive art exhibit where visitors play a game of digital telephone with a combination of robots, virtual reality and augmented reality mediums.