About Harald Haraldsson

Harald Haraldsson is an Associate Professor of the Practice in Design Tech at Cornell Tech and the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, where he directs the XR Collaboratory. His work centers on multimodal 3D user interfaces for virtual and augmented reality. Through high-fidelity prototyping, he explores novel interaction techniques for creative applications and design tools.

Beyond academia, Haraldsson has created and exhibited works for cultural institutions, brands, and agencies, spanning interactive installations, time-based media, and computational design.

Haraldsson earned his master’s degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Monbukagakusho scholar in the Okutomi Laboratory. He was an inaugural member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s design incubator, and has held residencies at Mana Contemporary and Kitchen Budapest.