MDes Alumni Design Fellows

The Master of Design (MDes) Alumni Design Fellows are graduates of the MDes program who are dedicated mentors and volunteers for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. The Fellows provide professional development support and consult on a range of topics based on their areas of interest and expertise. They also host workshops, participate in critiques in MDes courses and end of semester showcases, attend community events, and support MDes courses.

MDes students and instructors for the program are encouraged to directly contact MDes Alumni Design Fellows for advice and collaboration (see contact info below).

The MDes Alumni Design Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year are:

• Akash Mahajan

  Design Analyst at McKinsey & Co.

• Ananth Nayak

  Senior Data and Technology Strategist at IA Collaborative

• Divya Srinivasan

  Senior Applications Engineer at geCKo Materials

• Effie Jia

  Designer at Adobe (Machine Intelligence and New Technologies)

• Franklyn Bucknor

  i do cool confidential stuff that spans design, tech, art, the future

• Georgios Grigoriadis

  Senior Technologist at Butlr

• John Brechbill

  Senior Designer at Elevator Studios + Co Founder of Hound Fitness

• Kabeer Andrabi

  Senior Product Designer at SingleStore

• Shameemah Fuseini-Codjoe

  Creative Technologist at Expedia Group

• Tomas Garcia

  Creative Technologist at Samsung Design Innovation Center

• Vidit Bhargava

  Co-Founder of a Stealth Startup (previously Experimental Interfaces Researcher at Era Labs, Design Systems and Engineering at Punchcut)

• Wonjoon Oh

  Design Engineer at Gen City Labs