Winka Dubbeldam is a seasoned academic and design leader, serving as Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where she has gathered an international network of innovative research and design professionals. Previously, Professor Dubbeldam oversaw the Post-Professional Degree program for 10 years (2003-2013), providing students with innovative design skills, cutting-edge theoretical and technological knowledge, and the analytic, interpretive, and writing skills necessary for a productive and innovative career in the field of architecture. A practicing architect and founder/principal of the New York firm Archi-Tectonics, Dubbeldam is widely known for her award-winning work, recognized as much for its use of hybrid sustainable materials and smart building systems as for its elegance and innovative structures.

Robert Stuart-Smith is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Program Director for the Masters of Science in Design: Robotics and Autonomous Systems degree (MSD-RAS), and an Affiliate Faculty member in Penn Engineering's GRASP Lab. He directs the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab in Penn's Department of Architecture (AML-PENN), and co-directs its sister lab in University College London's Department of Computer Science (AML-UCL). Stuart-Smith's research operates at the intersection of algorithmic design, robotic fabrication, and collective robotic construction — developing an integrated approach to design, manufacturing, and robot behavior through varying degrees of programmed autonomy. Stuart-Smith is P-I for the £1.2mil EPSRC project "Applied Off-site and On-site Collective Multi-Robot Autonomous Building Manufacturing" and Co-I for a £2.9mil EPSRC research project into "Aerial Additive Building Manufacturing", involving collaborations with industry partners including Cemex, Skanska, Mace, Burohappold, Arup, MTC, Ultimaker, Kuka, and others. Stuart-Smith is a co-founder of the experimental research collaborative Kokkugia and architectural practice Robert Stuart-Smith Design. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn in 2017, Stuart-Smith was a Studio Course Master in the AA School’s Design Research Laboratory (2009-17), and held visiting professorships at Washington University, RMIT, University of Innsbruck, amongst others. Stuart-Smith's work has been published in journals including Nature, Science Robotics, AD Architectural Design, and Architecture D’Aujourd’hui. He has lectured and presented in symposia at institutions including AA, Sci-Arc, CCA, MIT, RMIT, Angewandte, Strelka Institute, Tsinghua University, Texas A+M, and others.

Prof. Andrew Saunders has undertaken research into robot sheet metal bending, and 3D scanning of historic buildings; publishing in building technology, mathematics, and architectural journals. He is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Weitzman School of Design and founding principal of Andrew Saunders Architecture + Design, an internationally published, award-winning architecture, design and research practice committed to the tailoring of innovative digital methodologies to provoke novel exchange and reassessment of the broader cultural context. The practice innovates at a number of scales ranging from product design, exhibition design, and residential and large-scale civic and cultural institutional design. His current practice and research interests lie in computational geometry as it relates to aesthetics, emerging technology, fabrication, and performance.

Billie Faircloth is a Partner at KieranTimberlake. She leads a transdisciplinary group of professionals leveraging research, design, and problem-solving processes from fields as diverse as environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, and architecture. She fosters collaboration between disciplines, trades, academies, and industries in order to define a relevant problem-solving boundary for the built environment. Billie oversees the queries and investigations that begin and inform each project at KieranTimberlake. During design, she guides project teams through empirical experiments, prototypes, and analysis. She leads the development of technology that informs high-performance design, including Pointelist™, a wireless sensor network, Tally™, a life-cycle assessment application, and Roast, a post-occupancy survey tool. She is also working on Ideal Choice Homes, an affordable, quick-to-build housing solution for India's emerging middle class.  Billie has taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Harvard University, and has served as Portman Visiting Critic at Georgia Institute of Technology and VELUX Visiting Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Prior to joining KieranTimberlake, she was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where she instructed research studios exploring applications for conventional and emerging material technologies and conducted seminars on emerging construction and fabrication technologies. Her articles have been published by the Journal of Architectural Education, Princeton Architectural Press, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and ACADIA. She is the author of Plastics Now: On Architecture's Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material published by Routledge in 2015, and the recipient of Architectural Record's Women in Architecture Innovator Award in 2017.

Patrick Danahy is an Assistant Research Professor of Architecture and the Design Innovation Fellow at Ball State University and the 2022 distinguished professor of the T4T Lab at Texas A&M, a position formerly held by Casey Rehm, Roland Snooks, Tom Wiscombe, Barry Wark, Gilles Retsin, Nate Hume and other distinguished faculty. He has taught digital workshops in the UCL Bartlett RC20 Skills-Share program, as well as design and technology studios at the University of Pennsylvania as a Part-Time Lecturer for the M.Arch and MSD-RAS programs, and as a Visiting Lecturer for the Landscape Architecture Master's program. His teaching focuses on computation and robotics, integrating architectural reference with contemporary machine learning methods. Danahy holds a B.A. in Architecture from Clemson University, where he received the graduating Faculty award and the Peter Lee and Kenneth Russo Award for Design Excellence. He later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s of Architecture, receiving the Kanter-Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation, the Paul Cret T-Square Fellowship, the Van Alen Traveling Fellowship, the Dales Fellowship, the Kohn Fellowship, the Schenk-Woodman Merit Award and upon graduating was awarded the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Silver Medal. His work has been presented and published at the 2020 Digital Futures Young conference, the 2020 Distributed Proximities ACADIA conference, and the 2022 CAADRIA Post Carbon conference, receiving the award for best presentation runner up with Robert Stuart-Smith.

Alicia Nahmad is an architect with a passion for robotics and digital fabrication. As a research-based practising architect, for the last 12 years, she has been engaged with the digitization of building trades and adapting advanced digital design and robotic fabrication methods to incorporate the wisdom and craft of traditional building cultures. Her projects include the construction of award-winning ‘Knit-Candela’ and diverse collaborations with practice and academic institutions such as ZHA CODE , Block research group at ETH, IAAC, ODICO,  and more. She holds a PhD from Cardiff University and a MArch from the AADRL. Alicia has developed workflows for human-robot collaboration in the design and construction process that engage with local communities using advanced technologies. Alicia’s work expands across a number of scales, from architectural pavilions to robotic installations and furniture. As an academic and an entrepreneur, Alicia is the founder of The Circular Factory (CF), and MITollbox. Alicia works as an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary SAPL. She also co-directs the Laboratory for Integrative Design. Before joining SAPL, she worked as studio master at the AADRL for 5 years. Previously, Alicia worked developing digital tools for practices like Populous and Zaha Hadid Architects. Her work has been published in numerous conferences and journals an she has lectured internationally on related topics.

Emek Erdolu is a Graduate Instructor and a Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Architecture. Situated across architecture, design computation, human-computer interaction, and robotics, his research includes two main strands: one that focuses on building intuitive and interactive computational tools to support architectural practices, research, and education; and another one on the questions of computation, representation, and work within historical and contemporary architectural practices. His Ph.D. research focuses on AI/robotic systems we work with every day. His forthcoming dissertation investigates how building tasks are analyzed and decomposed to inform on-site robotic systems, and how these systems reconfigure the organization of these tasks with new workflows and human-machine interactions they introduce to construction sites, focusing on a selection of historical and contemporary robotics practices in the United States. Part of this research and more have also been co/published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI) and International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), and presented in venues such as the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Previously, Emek was a researcher at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), and for seven years in the United States, China, and Southeast Asia, he worked in various architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design projects with AECOM, HMD, Ecoland, and Nomad Studio. He has lectured and taught studios in CMU, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), National University of Singapore (NUS), and Bilkent University. Aside from MSD-RAS at Weitzman, he currently teaches at CMU’s Master of Science in Computational Design (MSCD) program.