Rupesh Vyas is an associate professor at Aalto University, responsible for the information design focus area within the Visual Communication Design major. He is also leading the practice-based research in information design at the Department of Art and Media. Previously, he was a senior faculty at the National Institute of Design, India, responsible for developing and teaching information and interaction design research and education.
Rupesh is teaching information design courses and is engaged in collaborative design research with many public sector organizations in Finland. He is the driving force behind the collaborative design research projects with FINNGEN for creating future tools of visualizing genetic data for scientific discoveries.
Rupesh is also involved in organizing the Visualizing Knowledge conference, an annual conference held at Aalto University, focused on various topics of Information Design and Data Visualization, where student work, as well as ongoing research, is presented along with talks by international experts.