KP (Kshitij Parashar)
Gen AI Product Leader
Global Game Jam Launch
Shimmering Souls - a Visual Novel made by humans
01/27/25: With Jolie Han, Comp Sci Freshman @ MIT, Jonathan Kong-Shi @Wentworth & Sophia Higgins @ Harvard (Music)
XR Guild Talk, NYU Tandon @ The Yard
Gather AI Concept Keynote @ Emerging Media Lab, NYU Tandon, Brooklyn Navy Yard
10/01/24: Gather around the dinner table, to solve the Social Isolation problem in the US, with Spatial Computing & empathetic AI Agents
Gen AI x Gaming Hackathons
AI Drawphone: Reimagining Board Games with AI !!
03/16/25: Designed at a hack @MIT Media Lab: Judge & Bot Playthroughs of Telestrations reimagined with AI
Retrogenie | Samsung Next Generative AI Hackathon NYC 2024 Winner
03/18/24-05/11/24: Build Retro Games people want to play & watch with Gen AI along with Dhruv Yadav, Software Engineer at Meta
Infinite Wordbowl | AI Infinite Games Hackathon: Honorable Mention
09/27/24: Infinite Wordbowl, generate social trivia game packs on the fly! Built with Salil Nadkarni, SWE @Slack
AI Sims !! | DreamXR Hackathon & Game Jam
03/14/24-03/16/24: Built Sims with NPCs in minutes along with Lav Gupta, Senior Mixed-signal Engineer at TeraDAR
Infinite Murder Mystery | AI Infinite Games Hackathon 2
08/29/24: Infinite Murder Mystery, generate social deduction plotlines infinitely
SpaceChem | Multimodal AI Hackathon | Educational Game Concept
11/11/23-11/12/23: Multimodal AI hackathon project along with Datt Patel, Kaiyi Sun & Fawny Arnyek from USC Viterbi
Flow AI | 3D Workflow Automation | Won 3rd @ 3D AI Models Hackathon
8/11/23-8/14/23: 3D AI Models Hackathon project along with Andrea de Cosmo, Muhammad Shehata, Tayyab Zain, Aqsa Ashfaq & Avi Nav Rao
SpectraCreate | 3D Modeling | Won 3rd @ WebGPU Hackathon
8/10/23-8/11/23: 3D WebGPU Hackathon project along with Felicien Diouf, Nisha Islam & Aymen Ghaffar
Game Dev Copilot on Mobile | Gen AI x Game Dev on Mobile | Samsung Next Hack @ SF
9/22/23-9/23/23:: Samsung Next Gen AI Hackathon project with Kevin Tran, EECS @ Cal Berkeley
3D Scene Gen with Text Prompt | Gen Lab Hackathon @ SF
9/2/23-9/9/23: Gen Lab Hackathon along with Faizan Ali, Andrea de Cosmo, Silas Everett & Randy Fong
Giko's Adventures | Virtual Production | Gen AI Virtual Worlds Hackathon @ LA
6/09/23-6/11/23: Generative AI Virtual Worlds Hackathon project along with Rebecca Sherwood & Tena Nguyen
Their Story | Interactive Fiction Game POC with Gen AI | AI Arts & Crafts Hackathon @ SF
9/17/23: Gen AI Game Vertical Slice tooling for Indie Game Studios
Gen AI Gaming Startup Pitch
Retrogenie AI Elevator Pitch
05/13/24: Tiktok of Retro Games
Creator tools & Twitch combined into feed based arcade games that people can riff off each other
AI x Spatial Computing Product Innovation
Brick.ai | Social Commerce X Virtual Tryon | Gen AI x AR
02/21-05/21: Final pitch of CMU's Venture Bridge
Startup Accelerator along with Anuprita Ranade.
Krelboyne | VR Game Engine for Education | Gen AI x low code
07/20-12/20: Final pitch of Startup Creation in Practice
course at CMU Silicon Valley along with Rhea Upadhyay.
EyePad | Eye-tracking Interaction | AI x AR
09/20-12/20: conceptualized & demoed as final project of Machine Learning & Sensing
course at CMU along with Irene Baljak, Shivin Shetty & Sikandar Batra.
Travelation | AR Glass for insta translation | 3rd @ Startup Grind Beijing Ideathon
08/19: Won 3rd Prize for the concept at Startup Grind Ideathon Beijing 2019
along with Isabelle Becker, Kimberly Wong, Sara Soh & Yun Yu
AirPad | Hand Interation & Haptic Feedback| VR Wearable
01/20-04/20: Developed as part of the Touch: Haptics & Tactile Sensing course at CMU along with Derya Tansel.
Based on the paper by Pacchierotti et al. (2016), "The hRing: A wearable haptic device to avoid occlusions in hand tracking,"
Reverse Saber | Beat Saber mod | Open Source
05/20-08/20: Summer project at CMU to study Game Design & Game Dev
© Kshitij Kumar Parashar. All rights reserved.