Uttam Grandhi is an award-winning Mixed Reality Developer and an Origami Artist. He is the lead developer for NYU College of Dentistry’s Local Anesthesia VR training module, which is a first of its kind in the country. In 2018, he co-founded PlayGAMI, an Augmented Reality Origami Creativity platform, which was shown at Maker Faire NYC, Maker Faire Bay Area, SIGGRAPH, Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, Rubin Museum of Art, National Museum of Mathematics, and Computer History Museum. He also won recognitions from MIT, Harvard University, and NASA for his experiments in Augmented Reality, and Origami.