Kavindya is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Tilli, an award winning social-emotional learning tool used by over 15,000+ learners, incubated at Stanford. Tilli combines the powers of machine learning and data and the joys of play to ensure every child is developmentally on track by their 10th birthday.

Tilli is a UNICEF Venture Fund portfolio company and has been recognized by leading organizations in the education space like IDEO, Sesame Workshop, Playful Minds, and UNOSSC. Kavindya conducts research in social emotional learning and child-caregiver relationship at the SPARK Lab at Stanford, where she is pursuing doctoral studies. Prior to this, she obtained her MSc in Learning, Design, and Technology from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship, and her BA from Wellesley College in Anthropology. Prior to Tilli, she worked for companies like Google Education, Meta, 2U, MIT Media Lab, and Coursera researching and building high-impact learning tools that have reached over a billion learners. Kavindya won both the inaugural Queen’s Young Leaders Award and the Harvard Global Trailblazers Award for her impact within the local education space.