Resources

I'm a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investing

Pre-seed/seed investments include Scale AI, Pave, Applied Intuition, Zora, Rappi, Extend, Lattice, Royal, Multiverse, Crossbeam, Bitski, Addi, All Stripes, Alongside Sardine, A Team, Enveda, Forethought, Nurx, Long-Term Stock Exchange, Carrot, Lit Protocol, Loyal, Secureframe, Settle, Sokowatch, Unit21, Primer, Spring Discovery, Overflow, Socket, Orchid, Kapwing, Timycare, HumanFirst, Elemind, MenSIM, Jam, VoiceOps The.com, Omnexr, Flexport (late stage), Figma (late stage) and many more.

Publications

From Pen to Prompt: How Creative Writers Integrate AI into their Writing Practice
Rajnish Mani Tiwari, Shreya Sathyanarayanan, Leijie Wang, Jeffrey Heer, Amy Zhang - in review

Preserving Writer Values in AI Writing Assistance Tools
Rajnish Mani Tiwari, Leijie Wang, Jeffrey Heer, Amy Zhang - CHI 2024 In2Writing Workshop

Exploring the Impact of AI Value Alignment in Collaborative Ideation: Effects on Perception, Ownership, and Output
Rajnish Mani Tiwari, Pat Pataranutaporn, Pattie Maes - CHI Late-breaking Work 2024

Using natural sentence prompts for understanding biases in language models
Sarah Alnegheimish, Rajnish Mani Tiwari, Yi Sun - NAACL 2022

Writing

Talks and Panels

Learning from Poetic Practices: Creativity Through Computational Means
Causal Islands, Berlin, Germany. Oct. 5, 2024.

The Algorithm That Moves: Uncanny Possibilities for AI Poetry
Lit Crawl, San Francisco, CA. Oct. 26, 2024.

This is the poem that doesn't end!! or, the poetics of RNG! (link to talk)
!!Con, UC Santa Cruz, CA. Aug. 25, 2024

Podcasts

Projects

Sustained A chrome extension that guides you through the online shopping process focusing on [sustain]able [ed]ucation, asking you the questions needed to help you make a thoughtful and more sustainable purchase with checkout reminders. Try it out here!

Polanimations Interface prototype for using polarizers as a passive display technology to create animations. With Ticha Sethapakdi.

Detect Fakes I researched in the MIT Media Lab working on conceptualizing and designing experiments to determine how well humans could detect deepfakes in comparison to the leading AI. Can you detect the deepfake?

Visual Poetry Ever wondered what imagery or emotion poetry can evoke? Visual Poetry generates images from poetic text and applies style transfer from paintings of your chosen sentiment. Made with Peitong Chen and Olivia Seow.