Richa Gupta  | Mentioned in Forbes               
richag@mit.edu | +1 6177809005
MIT Design, Build, and Ship Creative Technologist
www.richagupta.co.in


SELECTED PROJECTS

Graduate student at MIT with a strong foundation in Computer Science and Design Computation, specializing in AI, rapid prototyping, design and human-technology interaction. Passionate about integrating emerging technologies into intuitive digital products, with a focus on user experience, innovation, and the future implications of technology. Driven by a commitment to challenging social constructs, prioritizing user-centric design, and shaping solutions at the intersection of design, technology, and technological shifts.


My research focuses on the emergent behaviors of generative AI, particularly how it often overlooks humans as active users. I aim to bridge this gap by pairing generative AI outputs with actionable insights, shifting AI from a visualization tool to a data-backed decision-making system. (available upon request)


Curator AI - Speech, AI & AR for E-Commerce
(MIT Generative AI Hackathon Winner)

Created a voice-controlled AI recommendation system with visual contextual understanding for Furniture

Market, integrating Whisper API, ChatGPT-4o, Google APIs, RoomPlan API, and AR development tools.

Revolutionized user experience by enabling seamless interaction and enhanced product discovery.

ACADIA 2023 - Workshop Tutor

(Hybrid Making: Physical
Explorations with Computational Matter)

Text-to-Robotic Assembly for Functional Objects
(Best Poster Award - 2.156 AI/ML for Eng. Design)

Developed a pipeline combining 3D generative AI and Vision-Language Models to automate component

assignment for robotic assembly.

Achieved 98% accuracy in identifying functional components, enhancing user selection precision.

3DGeometryTool - 3DIT

A React Three Fiber application utilizing Zustand for state management and Leva for UI controls to dynamically manipulate 3D cubes and their vertices with intuitive TransformControls.


Responsible AI
(MIT AI Decision-making and Society)

Bias detection, red teaming and evaluations in modern Artifical Intelligence system.

Sketch to 3D software 
(1st Prize, HMC Architects’ Hackathon, LA 2021)

Led “form sketcher” workflow (Part 1/3), analyzing environment alongside M. Mistry & T. Bhattacharjee

Aimed for flexible any age professional design integrating technology seamlessly with creative processes

Built a Glitch-based websocket to bridge p5.js data (sketch/voice/vision) with open-source ML in

Rhino-Hops-Grasshopper


ArchiDAO
(Co-founder)

Peer-to-peer Network on Blockchain for Architects, Designers and Technologists.

Neural Network Project for Image Completion

Fine-tuned a specialized Stable Diffusion model on 10k meticulously curated image pairs.

Incorporated advanced CLIP-based guidance and custom losses for robust 0.95811 alignment.

Explored adversarial noise/occlusion vulnerabilities, refining pipelines for enhanced resilience.

Arch-SaaS
(Product Development - ideation to launch)

Product for single source of truth - Chaos to Efficiency


PLUS AI
(MIT Media lab- Gold team, MIT Sandbox)

AI Ecosystem for Architecture and design. 

Plus +’ goal is not just to make our work more efficient, but sharing our ways of thinking and designing with the world, all while keeping our agency and intent.


Flex the muscle, solve the puzzle
(MIT Web Lab)

Built a gesture-controlled AI puzzle with React.js and Gesture recognition via Google’s teachable machine.
Rat in the Hat

Realtime Mixed reality and IOT for Cooking Assistance

VOLUNTEER



MIT Academic Mentor (AMP)

MIT Steward Graduate Student Union (GSU)

Open Source collection of resources around the globe - Architechie Editathon

Research Partner at XTIC, IIT Madras

MIT Advocacy Student for External Affair Board (EAB)