Mansidak Singh
Silvia
Silvia was the first multilingual dictation system of its kind, running natively on iOS. Developed entirely in SwiftUI as an iMessage extension, Silvia solved the frustrating problem faced by bilingual users who wanted to dictate in multiple languages but were limited to just one on their iPhones. Silvia lets you switch languages mid-sentence and always understands you, seamlessly adapting to the way you speak. Read More →
2024
Sidecar
re:collect developed 'Recall,' an ML-based tool designed to help users retrieve information without breaking their flow. After their pre-seed raise, the founder invited me to spearhead the native Mac product, 'Sidecar.' I led the design, architecture, and entire 0-to-1 development of their first macOS deliverable. As of Sept 2024, re:collect has been acquired by a Series F startup SmartNews.
2024
Frost
Frost was a mood-inducing writing application leveraging basic ML to help users get into the 'headspace’ to write their creative pieces. Frost provided the users with the background music and ambiance to get into the flow state and was active at 30,000 monthly active users. Development was stopped in 2022.
2021
Clyde
Clyde is a user-friendly macOS app that alarms your Mac when you step away to grab coffee or take a call in a public space—so you don't have to ask strangers to watch your stuff. It alerts you by calling your Apple Watch and iPhone, even bypassing Focus Mode, when someone tries to take your laptop while you’re away. 19,000+ downloads and counting.
2022
Industry
re:collect AI (Acquired)
New York, NY • Designing and building Sidecar at re:collect, our flagship macOS product
Raytheon Technologies
Phoenix, AZ • Developed internal tools for projects involving clients like Airbus • NDA
Reason Robotics
Dallas, TX • Computer vision + LLMs. Develop the core architecture for autonomous robots.
Academia
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA • Conducted, published research on Ambient Technology Environments.
Alice Albrecth
Mihai Cernusca
Andre Loose
Kenneth Cassel
Alfredo Gutierrez
Rodin Reserves
On the flight back home after Thanksgiving, I was reading something on my Mac but didn't have enough space to move my hand to scroll on the trackpad. I figured, why not leverage the gyroscopes in the AirPods I was wearing at the time to scroll on the Mac? It turns out macOS doesn't have CoreMotion, so I created an iPad simulator and streamed quaternions over a local server.
Was inspired to create a program that would let me just focus on one application while giving me the ability to access other windows when necessary. A better alternative to stage manager due to accessibility reasons. The user increases/decreases blur by simply pressing cmd + brightness up/down key.
Blancus is a prototype for an intelligent research tool that streamlines the engineering design process by automating trade studies and reducing biased decision-making. The work happening at the Codesign lab was very similar to what I had been developing and as a result, I ended up joining their research in 2023.
Picture being able to control your existing computer devices using natural gestures in thin air. Typically, this would involve computer vision, but I wanted to adopt a more privacy-orientated approach, harnessing spatial computing. In this bare-bones prototype, we're using the devices we wear every single day (Apple Watch and AirPods) to facilitate communication with a Mac.
Bathinda • Berkeley • Brooklyn