Om Gokhale

Om Gokhale is an interaction and visual designer at the Center for Constructive Communication (CCC). His research focuses on creating tools and spaces that help encourage kindness and connection, especially among young people. 

Before CCC, Om spent a decade as a founding designer and consultant for over thirty emerging technology startups and teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. Projects ranged from a computer vision model that helps neurosurgeons detect strokes, to AI interfaces for generating 3D objects and environments for the video game Fortnite, to a robotic arm that gives perfect tattoos.

In 2023, Om and a small team at IBM received the international Red Dot Award in Interface Design for their work on Conveyor, a visual coding platform to orchestrate multiple AI agents to complete multi-modal, multi-step tasks. Conveyor evolved into Watson Orchestrate and is now used around the world.

Om was Middlebury College's first graduate in 'Humane Design'. The custom major explored human-computer interaction through the lenses of ethical philosophy, emotions, sensory neuroscience, public policy, and ecology.

Outside of school, he volunteers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (ask him about horseshoe crabs!), lifts weights, and finds frequent excuses to drive up to coastal Maine with his fiancé.