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, professor at Art Center College of Design teaching Embodied Sensing & Diverse Inputs in MDP and Interaction Design programmes and previously faculty at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design (CIID) and professor and critic at graduate industrial design program of Rhode Island School of Design. She is Research Affiliate at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and has been visiting professor at many design institutions including ZhDK, UPenn, Parsons, School of Visual Arts, Stanford to name a few. She’s dedicated mentor for over 7 years at NEW INC, New Museum’s cultural-led Technology Incubator. She advises, juries and supports interdiciplinary programmes such as TBA21, Frame Documentary, Umea, IxDA, BioDesign Challenge, Mozilla XR and continues to mentor young professionals passionate about critical and creative inquiry in ecology & technology.
Currently Yasaman is leading Novel Inputs & AI Interfaces at Oculus Quest 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.