BIOS

Mansoor Rahimat Khan is a professional sitar player + music tech entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the live music and recording industry. He hails from one of the most reputed music families from India which has been dedicated to Indian classical music for the past 7 generations and has shaped the modern day sitar (Indore-Dharwad Gharana of Sitar). He is a Forbes 30 under 30 Asia honoree in consumer tech.  An alumni of the Georgia Tech center for music technology, Mansoor has worked across several startups in tech and product roles with several publications and patents in deep learning for audio applications to his credit over the last 10 years. His last stint was as a product manager at a startup that was acquired for 600 million$.

Manaswi Mishra is a PhD candidate researcher in the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, under Tod Machover. His research explores strategies and frameworks for a new creative age of composing, performing and learning music using A.I. centered around bespoke human intent. His research on creating novel A.I. musical instruments and using A.I. to extend live musical culture can be seen in the development and performance of Operas like VALIS (2023, premiered in Boston), FLOW Symphony (2024, premiered in Seoul Arts Center) and exhibitions across the world. Manaswi actively organizes conferences, workshops and curricula across India through Music Tech Community India, Audio Developer Conference x India, Algorave India. Manaswi has completed his B.Tech in Engineering Physics from IIT Madras and has graduate studies at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, Music Technology Group, UPF, Barcelona and a Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.