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Shruti Dhariwal

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Doctoral Researcher, MIT Media Lab

Current:
Building a new co-creative computing and AI education platform for young people (CoCo). Winner, 2024 Global Tools Prize, supported by Gates Foundation, OpenAI, Ballmer Group, and others. Work and research featured in MIT Technology Review, The Boston Globe, MIT News, EdSurge. Deeply care about building technologies and experiences that help children discover and nurture their inherently creative, playful, joyful, and peaceful selves.


Prior:
LEGO Papert Fellow; Learning Innovation Fellow; Best paper award for master’s research work; Published work on new creative tools for young people in several international conferences—IDC, C&C, CHI; Led a $90K education innovation grant at MIT, among other initiatives. Before coming to MIT: Undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering; Worked as the Head of Product Development at a game design company recognized as 'Top 10 Indian Innovators' by Govt. of India; Created a range of educational and social games that reached over 250,000 families.

Project Research

🎲 Little Language Models: Empowering Children to be Future AI Modelers

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Post Research

CoCo and MIT RAISE among 2023-2024 Tools Competition winners

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.
Project Research

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a real-time co-creative platform designed to empower young people in both physical and remote settings in Being…
Post Research

Meet the 2020 LEGO Papert Fellows

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
Thesis Research

SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories

Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
Post Research

Shruti Dhariwal receives Best Short Paper Award at 2018 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference

Congratulations to Shruti Dhariwal on receiving the Best Short Paper Award at the 2018 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference.
Publication Research

BlockArt: Visualizing the 'Hundred Languages' of Code in Children's Creations

Shruti Dhariwal. BlockArt: Visualizing the 'Hundred Languages' of Code in Children's Creations. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '19), San Diego, CA, USA. June 2019.