Bio

Samir Ghosh is a California based XR researcher and creative coder specializing in rapid interface prototyping and human computer interaction. As a PhD candidate at the Social Emotional Technology Lab at UC Santa Cruz, he uses co-design to research collaborative VR tools for scientific sensemaking, using cutting edge 3D, graphics, and AI techniques to explore how groups engage with complex data. Topics include wildfire mitigation, coral restoration, and marine mammal science. Outside of research, he leads the Creative Code Collective and collaborates on interactive art installations and experimental media.

Previously, he was the Assistant Director of the Ahmanson Lab at the University of Southern California, where he contributed to impactful AR/VR projects in the humanities with institutions such as the Library of Congress, The Vatican, the California Science Center, and The Huntington.

He brings experience from both industry and arts: As an XR Developer with Sarah Ciston, he created award winning 3D visualizations of the AI War Cloud project. As an intern at Intel, he worked in the maintenance of massive server farms and supercomputers.

During his undergraduate years, he led Corpus Callosum, a tech+arts collective, scaling it to over 100 members and building systems that sustain its productions to this day. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in computational linguistics and cognitive science from the University of Southern California.

In his free time, he practices capoeira and Latin-American dance— exploring rhythm, community, and embodied cognition as foundational aspects of human interaction.