I'm a designer at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, on the physical and manufacturing track. I work on physical products — particularly for healthcare — and the visual systems around them.

I trained first as a graphic designer, with five years of formal training and four years of editorial layout work in high school. A display typeface I designed will be exhibited at ATypI 2026. Before I switched to design, I spent three summers in a biomechanics lab at Stanford, working on cartilage modeling and training early image analysis models.

I'm interested in healthcare products designed for bodies and conditions the medical establishment has historically designed around rather than for. I think well-engineered objects deserve carefully designed visual worlds around them, and vice versa.

Outside of school, I design lighting, sound, props, and sets for the Stanford Shakespeare Company, and am currently producing a mainstage production. I'm also minoring in computer science and comparative literature. I am an avid reader and chronic silly music listener.

Currently: designing for 9 Dots & Jurny. Open to conversations about design, healthcare, sustainability, books, and theatre!

aukumar@stanford.edu