Kevin Karsch

2024 Young Alumni Achievement Award

Kevin Karsch is Head of Software & Applied Science at Amazon's New Initiatives division. Previously, Kevin co-founded Lightform, an ambient computing startup building projected AR products. Kevin served as CTO, leading the engineering teams to ship three hardware products and a new software platform. Kevin and the team joined Amazon in an acquisition of Lightform in 2021. Kevin holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked at Adobe and Microsoft. With over 30 patents and peer-reviewed publications, his work has been cited several thousand times.