Aditya Vishwanath

Aditya Vishwanath, from Chennai, India, is pursuing a PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He aspires to a career designing and building educational technology for diverse learning environments around the world. As the founder and CEO of Inspirit, a virtual reality education company, he focuses on developing technologies that support universal access to immersive learning content. Previously, he worked with the Google Education team where he explored strategies to integrate low-cost virtual reality toolkits into curriculum, and was a three-time recipient of the President’s Undergraduate Research Award at Georgia Tech. Before Inspirit, he co-founded MakerGhat, a makerspace and incubator for youth from low-income communities in urban Mumbai.