Summary
Rakshit Kothari is a Senior Color Scientist at Apple’s Visual eXperience Group with a decade of experience bridging imaging science, display technology, and human visual perception. He holds advanced degrees from RIT (PhD candidate in Imaging Sciences) and has combined academic research with industry roles at Apple, NVIDIA, Magic Leap, and RIT—work that spans display artifact removal, gaze classification, and projection-based immersive experiences. At Apple he progressed from Color Scientist to Senior Color Scientist, contributing to display and visual experience engineering that impacts consumer devices. His background in electrical engineering and hands-on expertise in MATLAB/Python and vision algorithms give him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical product-focused execution. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable publishing research and shipping production-caliber color and perception solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Imaging Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Imaging Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Nirma Institute Of Technology
Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, English