Introduction

Hi there!

We are team BetaSpace and we are excited to take you on our CBI A3 journey. Our team (Mary, Charlotte, and Ridima) is comprised of a group of industrial design Master’s students from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Mary Lempres is an intersectional industrial designer with a background in Fine Art from the Pratt Institute and a keen interest in chemistry/biology. She is a co-founder of Doppelganger Design Studio. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their puppy, Salsa.

Ridima Jain is an industrial designer by trade with a second Master’s in AI/ML. She is a co-founder of MSAD Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd and interns at HLB Lighting Design. She has studied all over the world, from India to Germany to New York.

Charlotte Böhning is an intersectional designer with a background in Economics and Journalism from Georgetown University. She is passionate about human-centric design and is learning how to knit in her free time. She is also a co-founder of Doppelganger Design Studio.

Helio Takai is the team’s academic advisor and serves as the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Pratt Institute. He is a physicist with a Ph.D. in nuclear physics! He worked as a collaborating scientist at CERN from 1994-2018, leading the effort to integrate ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter electronics systems. How cool is that?!

We are so looking forward to sharing our progress and triumphs with you (as well as our failures) and are honored to participate.

Team Beta Space