MICROSOFT
Forming the Responsible Mixed Reality & AI Team
Microsoft Mesh is a new to the world Future of Work experience that enables presence and shared experiences from anywhere – on any device – through mixed reality and AI applications.
Co-Founder of Microsoft’s Responsible AI and Mixed Reality Team, shaping trust, safety, and inclusion across new-to-world platform.
Brief
Co-founded and led the Responsible AI & Mixed Reality Team at Microsoft, focusing on trust, safety, and inclusion within emerging 3D mixed reality platforms.
Results
✱ Shipped a generative AI avatar editor with an inclusive taxonomy of hairstyles, enabling diverse self-representation at scale.
✱ Shipped an interactive informed consent experience, enhancing user trust and safety in immersive environments.
✱ Established a formal Responsible Metaverse initiative within Microsoft through hiring, and managing junior team members working projects. Elevated Microsoft’s safety, accessibility, and inclusion standards in mixed reality, influencing SVP-level strategy.
Project Scope
✱ Drove front-end innovation and service design for emerging mixed reality products, blending research, strategy, and prototyping.
✱ Led cross-functional workshops and alignment efforts with senior leadership, engineering, legal, and responsible AI teams.
✱ Created immersive Unity prototypes, detailed user scenarios, and storyboards to guide user testing and iteration.
✱ Mentored junior designers and researchers, helping elevate inclusive design practices across the team.-led design strategy workshops with senior leadership to establish team vision, OKRs, and roadmap.