Archives: Persons

Sarah Hammond

Sarah Hammond is a designer currently based between Philadelphia and Portland, OR. She received her architectural training here at the University of Southern California. Her building experience ranges from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) expansion at Buro Happold Engineering, to a pediatric neurology clinic at Synthesis Design + Architecture. Further shifting scales,

Lisa Little

Lisa Little holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Little integrates her engineering and architecture backgrounds to create an atypical approach to research and design. Her work strives to engage ambient phenomena through built form while

Matt Conway

Matt Conway is a Computational Design Leader with experience in a range of AEC softwares, technologies, and programming languages with a focus on parametric design, geometric approaches, interactive and immersive technologies, and integrated practice. He is also co-founder of HomeMakeLabs, a video game, interactive installation, and visualization studio. He received a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.I)

Jia Zhou Zhu

Jia Zhou Zhu is a registered architect in California and British Columbia. He received his M.Arch from SCI-Arc in 2013. He had worked for Griffin Enright Architects led by Margaret Griffin and John Enright. During his time at Griffin Enright Architects, as a project manager, he assisted the partners leading the project teams to design

Laure Michelon

Laure Michelon is a creative and architectural technologist based in Los Angeles, CA. Laure’s research and practice focus on digital simulation and algorithmic mutations with focused interests in infrastructure systems, climate engineering, and fashion.  Laure is faculty at UCLA AUD, has an M.S. in Architectural Technologies from SCI-Arc and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from

Vaishnavi More

Vaishnavi More, an Architect by profession is an exceptional entrepreneur and visionary as the Co-Founder and CEO of Archslate. Vaishnavi holds a Masters in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Masters in Architecture from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has previously served as the Founding president of the American

Kais Al-Rawi

Kais Al-Rawi is an Associate Director in Eckersley O’Callaghan’s Los Angeles office, Kais is an established architect with a reputation for working on a diverse range of projects from art-forms to towers, stadia and aviation developments. His expertise lies at the intersection of architecture, engineering and technology – with a focus on solving complex design

Campbell Yule

Campbell currently leads the Codesign team who are reinventing conceptual design with the Concepting app for iPad. Codesign combines the power of sketching with the power of the iPad platform to allow fast, fluid and flexible conceptual design for architects. Over his 25 year career Campbell has worked in a number of businesses including Cadimage,

Laura Karnath

Laura Karnath is a registered architect and Senior Enclosure Technical Designer at Walter P Moore’s Los Angeles office. She is a leader in computational design and holds broad global experience in the organizational models and technical challenges involved in the delivery of large international projects. Having overseen the delivery of highly complex building envelopes on four continents,

Joe Eichenseer

Joe leads a team of IMAGINiT’s dedicated services professionals who ensure that the people, technology and processes exist to provide the best possible solution for clients every time. Joe and his team provide leadership to building design firms through the process of selecting, implementing, and optimizing software solutions. They engineer new workflow processes that dramatically

Ben Petuchowski

Ben is a creative professional with over fifteen years of experience in television development and marketing. He leads marketing for Canvas, the iOS app that’s the most efficient way to create as-built drawings and models. Instead of spending hours measuring spaces and even more time modeling them, architects can scan houses in minutes and get

Sila Gulgec

My research interests include deep learning, machine learning, big data, structural health monitoring, anomaly detection, sensor networks, compressed sensing, digital image correlation, mobile sensing

Thomas Kearns

I’m Thomas. I am a trans-disciplinary experience designer + builder. My work employs a user centered design process, driving thoughtful programming from deep context sensitivity. As a designer I craft rich narratives for stakeholders, as a builder I ensure the clarity of the narrative pushes through the experience. Being a builder extends the reach of

Ronald Smith

Ron Smith is an accomplished account executive at IMAGINiT Technologies, where he is part of the US-West team comprising eight members. With a highly technical background, Ron specializes in Manufacturing, Structural Engineering, and Building Mechanical Engineering. Over the past nearly three decades, he has gained extensive experience as an end user, teacher, technical engineer, data

Cory Hill

Cory is an associate at Stantec specializing in the design and delivery of complex buildings. His work combines an expertise in computational design with deep investigations of specialty materials and assemblies. He has designed buildings, public spaces, and artworks with internationally acclaimed firms. Currently he is the lead architect for the façade and complex interior

Michael Siegel

Mr. Siegel is a Principal with Stantec Architecture. He has over three decades of experience with large, complex, cultural, institutional, corporate and mixed-use development projects. He has worked with prominent international architects around the globe, Tadao Ando, Ricardo Legoretta, Gert Windgardh and Ma Yansong. His recent work has lead the design teams for the Swedish

Rohan Jawali

Rohan Jawali is founder and CEO of Joist.ai, a marketing enablement platform for the built world. Prior to founding Joist.ai, Rohan worked for more than 12 years with Hensel Phelps, where he focused on innovation and Virtual Design and Construction.

Vivin Hegde

Zacua Ventures is an early stage global VC specialized in investing in the Built Environment sector. We work with exceptional founders from the conception of the idea and work to make them successful. We are backed by top tier corporates across the globe and help startups tap into their expertise to build best in breed

Hassan Ragab

Hassan is an Egyptian interdiscisplary designer/artist based in southern california. He holds a bachelor degree in architectural design and his experiences vary between Museography, Exhibition design, Computational design, Furniture design, Architecture and Construction, Digital Fabrication and Conceptual art. Alongside his work as a computational designer for the AEC industry; Hassan is currently exploring the digital

Alloy Kemp

Alloy Kemp joined Thornton Tomasetti in 2011. As a long standing member of the firm’s Façade Engineering practice, she is responsible for structural engineering of façades, detail / prototype development, parametric modeling and fabrication planning. Her multi-disciplinary education and dual licensure as an Architect and Engineer enables her to adapt easily to the creative nature

Wendy W Fok

Wendy W Fok (she/them), trained as an architect, is interested in design, technology, and creative solutions for the built environment. They have experience in Product Development and Program Management from Zero to Launch, Design-Build, Manufacturing, Hardware/Software, and Digital Fabrication.Fok holds a Doctor of Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in partnership with

Nikhil Choudhary

Nikhil Choudhary is a Silicon Valley based venture capitalist and general partner of Nirman Ventures (www.nirman.vc), a VC fund focused on prop-tech, construction-tech, clean-tech, web3+real-estate, and blockchain tech shaping real estate. Previously, Nikhil has founded several award-winning AEC companies in the United States and has been an investor for over a decade. Nikhil is a

Thesla Collier

Thesla Collier is a Design Technologist at HNTB. Her background is in Architecture, and she works with designers, architects, engineers, and contractors in all phases of building, design, and construction. Thesla uses design technology to develop methods and workflows to improve project outcomes and processes. She also holds leadership positions in AIA Technology in Architectural

Kathleen Hetrick

Kathleen Hetrick is an Associate at Buro Happold and is a Bloomberg Fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. As part of the Buro Happold Los Angeles Sustainability team, Kathleen combines her passion for regenerative design with a technical background in Architectural Engineering. She leads the sustainable design process on

Alvin Huang

Alvin Huang, AIA, NOMA is a Los Angeles-based architect with a global profile. He is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator who explores the intersections between technology and culture to produce innovative design work that challenges convention and expresses universal values. He is a vocal advocate for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in design culture.

Curtis Rodgers

Curtis Rodgers is a construction technologist and investor at Brick & Mortar Ventures, with six years of construction operations experience across federal, energy, industrial, infrastructure, and commercial markets at both Kiewit and McCarthy Construction. Curtis founded The Society for Construction Solutions (SCS) in 2014, contributed to the NASA Centennial 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, and participated

Niknaz Aftahi

Niknaz is the CEO and co-founder at aec+tech, an all-in-one innovation platform and community connecting AEC/O (Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Operations) professionals with the latest tools and technologies. Prior to launching aec+tech Niknaz practiced architecture in the bay area, California, both as a design professional as well as a design technologist. Niknaz is passionate about

Sandeep Ahuja

Sandeep Ahuja, co-founder of cove.tool, brings her experience of working on over 200 high performance projects. Most recently, Sandeep presented at the UN environment assembly, with 1500 global delegates, on the impact of buildings on climate change, showcased at the Tedx Atlanta and won the Forbes 30 under 30 for developing cove.tool, the automated sustainability

Luc Wilson

A Director at KPF, Luc leads KPF Urban Interface, an internal think tank furthering urban planning and architectural design through computational research and a suite of proprietary analytical tools. With his interdisciplinary team, Luc has developed a unique data-driven design methodology and applied it to over 300 of KPF’s projects globally. Luc’s approach optimizes performance