About

Rahul Budhiraja is a highly accomplished and passionate founder at Collablens, with over 10 years of experience in applied research, design, art, and business strategy. He is known for his ability to create meaningful experiences and products that leverage insights from diverse fields. Rahul's most recent experience includes leading an interdisciplinary research team at OYO, where he explored new business opportunities for OYO's verticals and the hospitality industry. His notable projects include immersive booking experiences for co-working spaces, a novel olfactory sensing system, and an AI platform to automate image editing and enhancement. Before joining OYO, Rahul worked with the Samsung Think Tank Team, where he contributed to projects such as a 3D omniview camera capable of streaming VR content in real time, a vision-based smart retail system, and digitally generated humans that visually look and emote like a human. His work was exhibited at several trade shows and featured in online publications like WIRED, Engadget, Verge, PC Mag, CNN.com, Hackaday, and TechCrunch. Prior to Samsung, Rahul co-founded Tesseract Imaging, a MIT Media Lab spin-off creating products in the AR/VR space. He has also worked at academic research labs such as HITLab-New Zealand, Mixed Reality Lab-Singapore, and the MIT Media Lab. Rahul's research has been published in premier xR conferences like ISMAR, IEEE VR, and 3DUI, and he is listed on 7 granted patents as an inventor. He holds a B.Tech(IT) from IIIT and an MHIT in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Canterbury. He also served as a Research Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rahul's tech stack includes Research Scientist, AI, CNN, Computer Vision, and Mobile. As the Founder and CEO of Collablens, Rahul continues to leverage his vast experience and skills to create innovative products and experiences that make a difference.