WebAward Judge Profile: Jyoti Sondagar

Independent Researcher & at Dynamic build
Design Strategy Lead

Jyoti Sondagar is a multidisciplinary Product Designer & Researcher with 10+ YOE, based in New York, with over a decade of experience spanning architecture, product design, and applied AI research. She currently serves as Design Strategy Lead at Dynamic Build, where she leads 0-to-1 product strategy and AI-integrated experience design across B2B and B2C teams, driving product vision from early ambiguity through to measurable market traction.

Her career began in architecture and interior design in Mumbai, India, before evolving into digital product leadership across technology companies in the U.S. Her design practice spans interaction design, design systems, 2D/3D integration, and information architecture, grounded in a strong command of mixed-methods user research, rapid prototyping, and a sharp eye for what makes a product simple, intuitive, and delightful.

Jyoti holds an M.S. in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons School of Design, The New School, NY, USA, and a B.A. in Interior Design from Saurashtra University, India. During her graduate studies, she collaborated with Parsons on a strategic roadmap for NASA's Space Expo, exploring public-private partnerships in the Low Earth Orbit economy.

Her research paper has been presented at IEEE ICAD 2026, where she authored "RAG-Enhanced Explainable AI for Regulatory-Compliant Credit Risk Assessment", examining how retrieval-augmented generation can improve transparency in AI decision systems.
She has also contributed research exhibited at ARCAM Gallery, Amsterdam.

Beyond her core practice, Jyoti is an active contributor to the broader AI and design community serving as a peer reviewer for academic and industry research, a featured speaker on AI product strategy and design, and a judge at technology competitions including the Beyond Tomorrow Hackathon 2026. She remains focused on building AI products that are both intelligent and human-legible.

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Independent Researcher & at Dynamic build's Website

Jyoti Sondagar's Linked-In Page