# Kshitij Marwaha — Full Site Content (plain text for AI assistants)

Source: https://www.kshitij.ai/
Contact: ksm@alum.mit.edu | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshitij-marwaha-3a854a4b/ | X: https://x.com/horizon_ksm

## Who

Kshitij Marwah is a deep-tech entrepreneur and researcher with a career spanning biomedical AI, distributed computing, computational imaging, XR/spatial computing, agentic AI, AI wearables and physical AI. His work has repeatedly moved from research into commercial products and platforms, building companies, scaling organizations, go-to-market, revenue and P&L management culminating in 2 major acquisitions.

Tagline: Entrepreneur. Scaling Businesses. Crafting Products. Deep Technology.
Positioning line: AI XR | Tesseract | MIT Harvard IIT
Summary: Building and scaling breakthrough products and companies that transform the way we live, work, and interact.

## Core Expertise

- Artificial Intelligence: agentic AI, multimodal AI, voice AI, physical AI, machine learning
- Extended Reality: AR, VR, MR, spatial computing
- Deep Technology: computational imaging, distributed systems, hardware/software platforms
- Company Building: research-to-product, GTM, P&L, organization scaling, M&A

## Career Arc

Research → Product → Company → Commercial Scale → Acquisition, across AI, XR and emerging computing platforms.

Impact summary:
- Impact: 2 acquisition exits (including to a Fortune 100 company)
- Growth: Triple digit revenue growth
- Scale: Millions reached
- Innovation: 10+ products launched
- Leadership: 0 to 500+ organisation scale
- Research: 25+ papers and patents

Featured in: TED, MIT Technology Review, WIRED, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Information.

## Awards and Recognition

1. MIT Technology Review TR35 (2017, Innovation) — Recognized as one of the world's top innovators under 35 for breakthrough contributions to AR/VR technology.
2. Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018, Recognition) — Recognized for the seamless journey between art, design and engineering, and for creating the MIT Media Lab India Initiative that grew to 20,000 innovators.
3. NASSCOM Design4India Winners (2018, Design) — Winner in the Immersive Category for outstanding design innovation in AR/VR experiences.
4. NASSCOM Emerge 50 League of 10 (2018, Startup) — Selected among the top 10 emerging deep tech startups in India for innovative hardware solutions.
5. TechCrunch | TechNode Asia Hardware Battlefield (2018, Startup) — Gold winner at Asia Hardware Battle for creating innovative AR headsets.
6. TED Talks India - Nayi Baat (2019, Talks) — Delivered TED talk and live tech demo on how mixed reality could transform storytelling and learning, building this future out of India.

## My Journey

From AI and XR research at MIT and Harvard to building companies that shape the future.

### 2016-2025 — CEO/Founder, Tesseract
MIT spin-off, India's largest XR + AI company, acquired by Reliance in 2019, fully merged in 2025 into Reliance Intelligence.

Tesseract (http://tesseract.in) is an MIT Media Lab spin-off focused on democratizing Mixed Reality through consumer and enterprise hardware, software and cloud platforms. Founded in 2015, Tesseract was acquired by Reliance Industries in 2019, integrated into Jio Platforms in 2025 as Jio Reality Labs, and transitioned into Reliance Intelligence in 2026 as its AI Devices Business Unit.

Business highlights:
1. Products and platforms used by millions of consumers across India.
2. Solutions deployed across 50+ leading enterprises, educational institutions and ecosystem partners.
3. Built and scaled an organization that hired 750+ professionals across business, operations, engineering, product and design.
4. Commercialized multiple hardware, software and cloud platforms from research through national-scale deployment.

Product highlights:
1. 2016-2019 | Imaging Platforms: computational imaging technologies including the Methane 360 VR Camera, Quark VR Camera, Holoboard and Presence Platform, enabling immersive experiences for travel, real estate, education and enterprise applications.
2. 2019-2024 | AR/VR Platforms: consumer and enterprise XR products including JioGlass, JioImmerse (Consumer), Tesseract XR Companion and Tesseract XR Horizon (Enterprise), powering immersive learning, collaboration, entertainment and large-scale live sports experiences.
3. 2024-2025 | AI Wearables, Humanoids and Agentic AI Platforms: multimodal AI through JioFrames, Humanoids and Smart Homes with the Jio AI Platform, combining Voice, Vision and Agentic AI for AI-native experiences.

Recognition: TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield (Gold), NASSCOM Design4India, NASSCOM Emerge 50, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, Forbes 30 Under 30. Featured by TED, MIT Technology Review, WIRED, Forbes, The Information and other leading global publications.

### 2013-2016 — Head, MIT Media Lab India Initiative
Biggest MIT program outside the US, 1000+ community, 100+ innovations, 5+ spin-offs.
1. Created a unique platform connecting young Indians from all walks of life to innovate together.
2. The initiative became the biggest program MIT ran outside the US.
3. MIT researchers collaborated with Indian students and professionals on design-led solutions for local Indian problems.
4. Grew from a 50-member community to 1000+ members over 3 years.
5. Prototyped 100+ open source solutions to local Indian problems, leading to multiple spin-off startups.

### 2011-2015 — MS, MIT Media Lab (and PhD, dropped off)
Deep learning over 4D light field tensor data, 2 ACM SIGGRAPH papers.
1. MS focused on light field cameras and displays.
2. Created the world's first full-resolution light field 4D camera using compressive sensing and deep learning.
3. Used synthetic data across 4D tensors to train high-dimensional models with overcomplete dictionaries.
4. MIT graduate thesis on 4D tensor photography using L1-minimization and machine learning techniques.
5. Research led to two peer-reviewed ACM SIGGRAPH papers.

### 2010-2011 — Research Scientist (joint master's thesis), Stanford University / Harvard Medical School
AI and deep learning over biomedical data, context-sensitive ontology alignment, 3 published papers.
1. Ingested 400,000+ biomedical sources across research articles, genotype and phenotype data to create the biggest distributed graph of linkages in Stanford and Harvard clusters.
2. Used deep learning and Bayesian techniques to find connections across disparate data sources, helping doctors uncover novel linkages.
3. Created real-time visualization tools for use across medical hospitals and labs.

### 2009-2010 — Visiting Research Scientist, Harvard-MIT HST / MIT CSAIL
Distributed computing for cross-language communication.
1. Created a platform for programming language interoperability in distributed computing environments.
2. Built a virtualization layer for cross-platform and cross-language communication over networks.
3. Implemented robustness to node failure in distributed systems.
4. Developed the dBabel tool presented at the Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing.
5. Deployed dBabel at Harvard Medical School.

## Key Products (https://www.kshitij.ai/products)

Building deep-tech products and platforms from research to commercial scale across software, cloud, intelligence and hardware in AI and XR.

1. Physical and Spatial AI Platform — 2025, Platform. AI-native platform for physical and spatial intelligence, powered by on-device and on-cloud multimodal LLM, LAM and VLA models. Impact: next-generation embodied AI for industrial and consumer use cases.
2. Voice and Agentic AI Platform — 2025, Platform. Voice-first agentic AI platform with real-time multi-agent orchestration across conversational AI, smart home, media and music across different surfaces. Impact: deployed across homes and enterprises for conversational AI at scale.
3. JioFrames — 2026, Consumer. Lightweight AI-native smart glasses along with mobile app and AI cloud platform designed for everyday use: multi-lingual voice AI, music, news and camera on the go. Impact: first mainstream AI glasses play built for India and global emerging markets.
4. Enterprise AI Assistant — 2024, Enterprise. AI-powered enterprise assistant that works across mobile phones and wearables to deliver on-the-job guidance and training. Impact: deployed across key large enterprises in India for productivity gains.
5. JioDive and JioImmerse Platform — 2023, Consumer. Affordable VR headset that turned any smartphone into an immersive cinema, gaming and learning device. Impact: single most selling VR headset in the Indian market.
6. 360° VR Streaming Platform — 2023, Platform. World's largest cloud-native platform for live 360° video capture, stitching, compression and streaming across mobile devices and VR headsets. Impact: powered live immersive broadcasts for the Indian Premier League (IPL) across millions of consumers.
7. JioGlass and JioImmerse Platform — 2022, Consumer. India's first consumer mixed-reality glasses and platform for media, education, communication and productivity. Impact: first-to-market mixed reality device in India, showcased along with the 5G launch and demonstrated at global tech conferences.
8. Holoboard — 2018, Enterprise. World's first smartphone-based MR headset for education and entertainment use cases. Using a special combination of curved lenses and new material coating with cameras for spatial tracking, Holoboard enabled any smartphone to become an affordable MR headset. Impact: pioneered an accessible AR hardware ecosystem for education, developers and early adopters.
9. Quark 360 Camera and Presence Platform — 2017, Consumer. 360° camera and presence platform for capturing, sharing and on-the-go editing of immersive moments. Impact: easy, accessible and affordable 360° content creation for consumers and creators.
10. Methane 360 VR Camera — 2016, Enterprise. India's first 360° VR camera and platform focused on immersive views and walkthroughs of homes, hotels and tourist spots. Using a combination of Made in India hardware and on-device processing for privacy it enabled enterprises to accurately depict real spaces to their customers. Impact: deployed across leading online property platforms for 360° immersive views of home listings.
11. Medical Ontology AI Platform — 2011, Platform. Medical Ontology AI Platform used context-sensitive ontology alignment to connect biomedical concepts using clinical and research data across billions of data points, enabling better recommendations and decision support for doctors and medical professionals. Impact: launched and deployed across leading healthcare chains and medical research institutions in US.
12. dBabel: A Cross-language Interface for Real-time Code Sharing — 2010, Enterprise. dBabel allowed for real-time communication between different languages over a distributed infrastructure to facilitate seamless collaborations between researchers. Impact: allowed researchers in universities and enterprises in US to seamlessly collaborate and increase productivity.

## Talks

1. How mixed reality tech could change storytelling and learning — TED Talks India. Mixed reality headset that enables users to interact with holographic content. https://www.ted.com/talks/kshitij_marwah_how_mixed_reality_tech_could_change_storytelling_and_learning
2. Dropping out of IT made me achieve much more — TEDxGateway. Journey of founding Tesseract Imaging and creating India's first 360 VR camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CeXCbnVxyM
3. How We Made in India! The First Ever 360 Virtual Reality Camera — TEDxHyderabad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byt4h_jfCWM
4. Now re-focus images (after taking the picture!) — INKtalks. Camera technology enabling users to re-focus images after capture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIpiZ-CC0Tc

## Research

Select publications and patents on AI, XR, light fields, design education and bioinformatics.

1. Tensor photography: exploring space of 4D modulations inside traditional camera designs — MIT Master's Thesis, MIT, 2015. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/91833
2. Compressive light field photography using overcomplete dictionaries and optimized projections — ACM SIGGRAPH, 2013. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2461912.2461914
3. Methods and apparatus for light field photography — MIT Patent, USPTO, 2016. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ad/7b/1d/2655d63d700b14/US9380221.pdf
4. Context-Specific Ontology Integration: A Bayesian Approach — PMC, 2012. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3392068/
5. Self-Organized Design Education: A Model for Interdisciplinary Design Education — IDSA, 2014. https://www.idsa.org/wp-content/uploads/Lee_0.pdf
6. Analysis of Linear Non-Adaptive Projective Visual Signal Sampling — OSA, 2012. https://opg.optica.org/ViewMedia.cfm?r=1&uri=COSI-2012-CTu4B.4&seq=0
7. dBabel: A Cross-language Interface for Real-time Code Sharing — AMIA, 2010. https://people.csail.mit.edu/kshitij/pubs/dbabel.pdf
8. An apparatus, method, and system for capturing 360/virtual reality video using a mobile phone add-on — WIPO PCT Patent, 2018. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/da/d0/92/4018d261684098/WO2018154589A1.pdf
9. An apparatus, method, and system for augmented and mixed reality viewing — WIPO PCT Patent, 2018. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/11/f6/ac/6eafa0035ab263/WO2018142418A1.pdf
10. An audio apparatus and a head mounted device including the audio apparatus — WIPO PCT Patent, 2023. http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e1/1f/2c/ad9044e9786968/WO2023037386A1.pdf
11. An interaction system and method for configuring an input device — WIPO PCT Patent, 2023. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e1/1f/2c/ad9044e9786968/WO2023037386A1.pdf

## Get In Touch

You can reach Kshitij at ksm@alum.mit.edu, on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshitij-marwaha-3a854a4b/) or on X (https://x.com/horizon_ksm).