Yasaman Sheri is a Designer, Writer and Researcher. She investigates and explores the interaction ecology, technology and society with focus on sensing, synthetic biology, aesthetics of simulation, perception systems and augmentation of body, objects and ecologies.
She is a leader in Design with more decade of experience building Core Interface Design & Operating Systems for Spatial Computing and AR, leading the first consumer Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display Microsoft Hololens & Windows Holographic, Designing Human-Computer-Spatial Interface for Google (X) Autonomous Driving, Curating AR & Spatial Interaction at IKEA’s research & design studio SPACE10, working with Synthetic Biology company Ginkgo Bioworks Investigating Biological Sensing and acting as Senior Director of Design leading Core Platform OS teams for Magic Leap 2.
Yasaman is also an educator, faculty at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design (CIID) and previously professor and critic at graduate industrial design program of Rhode Island School of Design. She’s been visiting professor at many design institutions including NYU, Art Center Collage of Design, UPenn, Parsons, School of Visual Arts and has been serving as dedicated mentor for many years at NEW INC, New Museum’s cultural-led Technology Incubator and continues to mentor young professionals passionate about critical and creative inquiry in ecology & technology.
Currently Yasaman is leading Novel Inputs & AI at Oculus Hardware AR teams and acts as the Principal Investigator and founder of Synthetic Ecologies Lab at Serpentine Galleries R&D creating platforms, tools & spaces that support critical & artistic inquiry in to Life Sciences.