The Studio Jyothi team is led by Vellachi Ganesan. A practicing lighting designer for over a decade, she is a seasoned practitioner of light, inspired by the poetic and metaphysical nature of light while also being well versed in its technical aspects. Her work has received notable recognition at the LIT awards and Illuminating Engineering Society awards.

 Vellachi founded Studio Jyothi in 2025, meaning Studio of light, with the intention make work of greater depth and impact to a wider audience. She believes strongly that light is an intrinsic part of us, and has the capacity to touch us on physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual levels. Light, which enables our everyday life, seeing, regulates our circadian rhythm and hormones, is an essential part of our well being and healing.  Designing lighting is more than visual, it’s biological.

Darkness, the counterpart of light, has an equal importance in our lives. While artificial light at night enables cities to extend the activity into the night, the overuse of light has created a series of ecological, public health, astronomical and existential problems. With the disappearing dark due to light pollution, preserving our dark skies has never been more important. Vellachi has been conscious about contributing to the collective dark sky efforts through responsible lighting design work, teaching Dark Sky Studies at the University of Utah, as well as serving to educate local communities.