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.

Laia Mogas-Soldevila is an Assistant Professor of Graduate Architecture and Director of DumoLab Research at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Laia’s research focuses on radically sustainable material practices bridging science, engineering, and the arts. Her pedagogy supports novel theory and applied methods understanding biomaterials and bio-based fabrication in product design and architecture. Over the past ten years while teaching at UPC, MIT, Cornell, and Penn, Laia has built scholarship reconsidering matter as a fundamental design driver and partnering with scientists to redesign it towards unprecedented environmental capabilities. She has recently received the prestigious Johnson&Johnson Foundation Woman in STEM2D Scholar Award as well as Penn Grants by the Research Foundation, Environmental Innovation, Sachs Art Innovation, and Global Engagement Fund. Her work has been shown at the NYC and SF MoMA as part of Mediated Matter Group in 2022, at Milan’s and London’s Design Weeks in 2023, the ICA Philadelphia for ACADIA 2023, the Athens Opera House during Nostos Festival 2021, and at the Barcelona D-HUB for Design Does 2020. Laia holds an interdisciplinary doctorate bridging biomaterials science, biomedical engineering, and advanced design from Tufts University School of Engineering, two master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture, and is a licensed architect with a minor in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia School of Architecture in Barcelona and the École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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 holds a PhD. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Architecture. Situated across architecture, design computation, human-computer interaction, and robotics, Emek’s 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 PhD research focused on AI/robotic systems we work with every day, investigating 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 has been co/published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), the 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). In the United States, China, and Southeast Asia, he also 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 has also taught in CMU’s Master of Science in Computational Design (MSCD) program.

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.