Rahul Arora
Research Scientist at Meta
Canada
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Top SchoolRahul Arora is a Research Scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of computer graphics and human–computer interaction, currently advancing input and interaction design for Meta’s Reality Labs AI glasses. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and a dual BTech/MTech from IIT Kanpur, and his work spans VR/AR gesture systems, 3D sketching, and stylized animation developed during internships at Adobe, Autodesk, and Inria. Rahul specializes in building user-centric creative tools and has repeatedly translated experimental research into practical prototypes and product-facing features for immersive devices. Based in New York with ties to Canada, he combines rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering on cutting-edge wearable displays—a profile that often surfaces unexpected insights about how subtle input affordances change creative workflows.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (56)
computer-graphics10
hci10
unity3d10
sketching9
human-computer-interaction9
animation9
gesture9
fabrication9
cpp8
geometry-processing8
3d8
visual-studio8
virtual-reality8
libigl8
simulation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rarora7777/rarora7777.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jul 2026
Contributions:162 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
bootstrapjekyll-bootstrapjekyll
rarora7777/VolumetricTruss
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Source code for the paper "Volumetric Michell Trusses for Parametric Design and Fabrication" published at SCF 2019.
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
fabricationparametric-designparametricsimulationvolumetric
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