Abhay M Wadhwa is the Founder and Design Principal of AWA Lighting Designers. Abhay founded AWA Lighting Designers in 2002. Abhay has been quietly focused on questioning the lighting zeitgeist ever since.
Based in Hudson Yards, NY, he works extensively with the world’s leading architecture and design firms in the fields of commercial and mixed-use developments, urban planning, transportation, infrastructure, hospitality, and healthcare.
He is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, educator, inventor, and author of numerous advanced light engineering and cultural lighting articles. He has worked with the United Nations Foundation and NGO's on projects that address issues that marginalize many of the world’s population. He has been referred to as the “Poet of Light” by a Canadian journalist and in lighter moments, he takes this title very seriously.
He has served as an adjunct professor for the Graduate Lighting Design Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI) esteemed Lighting Research Center (LRC) from 2003 to 2020. He is the author of the recently released book "Contextualizing Light."