About

I’m Sukanth K (Kalivarathan), also known as Sukanth Original. I’m a Researcher, Engineer, Music Composer and Creative, currently working at the intersection of AI, smart wearables, human–computer interaction.

I’m currently a Research Fellow at Lossfunk, working on cognitive augmentation with a focus on general user modeling from multimodal context for behavioral efficiency. I also collaborate with the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab, contributing to research on AR glasses and goal-oriented interfaces. Previously, I was a Visiting Student Researcher at MIT CSAIL’s HCIE Group, where I worked on generative AI for 3D fabrication. Earlier, I conducted research at the HIVE Lab at IIT Kanpur and during my undergraduate studies at VIT Chennai.

My work focuses on always-on, spatially aware AI systems, especially smart glasses and ambient computing. I developed HUX, an always-on AI companion for smart glasses, which I publicly demonstrated in July 2024, ahead of similar demos by Meta and Google. My work also includes spatial AI for smart living spaces, multimodal interaction systems, and long-term memory structures for wearable agents. My research has been accepted at venues including PeerJ Computer Science and NIME, with ongoing submissions to ACM CHI and UIST.

Alongside research, I build and deploy real-world wearable AI systems, covering systems architecture, cloud deployment, computer vision, LLM pipelines, interaction design, and hardware integration for current-generation smart glasses. 

Outside of research, I’m a verified music artist on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. Trained in Indian classical and Western music, I’ve been composing and producing original music since age 13. My music explores themes of time, human–technology symbiosis, and speculative futures, often intersecting with my research.

I also write fiction and non-fiction on intelligence, consciousness, speculative futures, and post-AI economic systems.

Disclaimer:

This portfolio is an independent, personal body of work created for academic application purposes. References to MIT, the MIT Media Lab, and its research groups are for descriptive and aspirational alignment only and do not imply affiliation with, endorsement by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.