Rodrigo A. Gallardo

Rodrigo A. Gallardo is a researcher working at the intersection of computational design, human–computer interaction, spatial computing, augmented reality, and haptics. He builds AI- and XR systems that combine vision-language models, AR headsets, and wearable feedback to help people learn and perform complex spatial tasks, from fabrication and assembly workflows to movement-informed skatepark design. His work has been published in venues such as NeurIPS and the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF).

Rodrigo is a John Haymaker Fellow and Steve Jobs Archive Fellow at MIT, where he is a graduate student in Design Computation and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). At MIT and collaborating labs, he works on AR-guided fabrication, multimodal guidance systems, and haptic wearables, including projects with MIT CSAIL and the MAHI Lab at Rice University. He completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Houston, where he conducted virtual and augmented reality research at the CougAR Lab.