A Co-Creative Drawing Robot for Freehand Sketching and Analogical Thinking in Early-Stage Design Ideation

Hengyue Zhao • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach

An Interpreter Layer for AEC: Cross-Modal Alignment, Schema Mapping, and Compliance

Hui Yen Chia • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Breathing Intelligence: Morphological Computation in Inflatable Swarm Systems

Sheen Cao • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Paul Pangaro

Bridging the Explainability Gap in Vibe Coding:From Black-Box Generation to Cognitive Support for Design Iteration

Mathilda Chen • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Context-Sensitive Proactive Robot: Empirical Insights and Computational Adaptation

Ziru Wei • Advisor: Omar Khan, Alexandra Ion, Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng

Designing an Explainable agent for Generative Design Workflows with Physics based Reasoning

Karthick Raja Bangaru Giridharan • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Michael Hasey

Designing with Latent Space: A Semantic Canvas and Agent to Broaden Exploration and Clarify Intent in Early Stage Footwear Design

Tianle Chen • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

From Instructional Judgment to Learner Understanding: The Role of 3D Movement Reconstruction in Remote Tai Chi Teaching and Learning

Yiqi Cheng • Advisor: Vernelle A. A. Noel, Daragh Byrne

Groveling Alone Together: Readings of CAPTCHA Across Scales

Leslie Liu • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Golan Levin

Interpretive Alignment in Asynchronous Collaborative Design: Toward a Cognitive Mediator for Early-Stage Design Work

Xiang Chen • Advisor: Vernelle A. A. Noel, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Playful computation: Encounters with ephemeral surfaces.

Carla Flores Trávez • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin

Semantic Compilation for Iterative Design : Bridging Natural Language design explorations and Construction-Aware Modeling

Andi Yao • Advisor: Joshua Bard

Think-Aloud Grammar: Constructing Design Thinking as an Artifact

Bilge Kosem • Advisor: Vernelle A. A. Noel, Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Vibe-Blender: A Blender-Native Agent Framework for Iterative 3D Design

Yizhuo Di • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Joshua Bard

What Drawings Say That Drawers Don’t: Surfacing Implicit Visual Patterns from Personal Drawing Archives Through Vision-Language Models

Yantong Xie • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne

An Iterative and Precision-oriented Pipeline to Generate 3D High-rise Building Mass with Natural Language Based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Haoyi Wang • Advisor: Joshua Bard

Co-op Tile World: A Benchmarking Environment for Human-AI Cooperative Interaction

Naeun Kim • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Paul Pangaro

CoFAB: An Integrated Human-AI Collaboration Prototyping and Fabrication System for Designers in Early Design Stages

Junke Zhao • Advisor: Joshua Bard

Dance Videography Grammar: A Shape Grammar for the Description, Analysis and Generation of Dance Performance Videos

Tsz Wing Clover Chau • Advisor: Vernelle A. A. Noel, Eddy Man Kim, Daragh Byrne

Designing Real-Time, Adaptive Learning Environments for Origami

Yiming Jiao • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Explore Generative AI Models for Vector-Based 3D Architecture Data

Yujin Wu • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Exploring the Convergence of AI and VR in Architectural Design, From Ideation to Actionable Outputs

Zhaowei Chen • Advisor: Joshua Bard

Generative Minimal Making System for 3-D Structures

Sohyun Jin • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne

JointLab: A VR Framework for Early Robotics Education in Architectural Fabrication

Shandon Jude Herft • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daragh Byrne, Vernelle A. A. Noel

Perceive the Spatial Flow of the Canvas—— Enhancing the Experience of Roaming Chinese Landscape Scrolls Using Augmented Audio Reality (AAR)

Qilin Wu • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin

Personalized Deformable Masks: A Workflow for AI-Based Landmark Filtering and Morphing Material Integration in Health Monitoring

Ziying Qi • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

ScrapAR: Democratizing Woodworking Education Through Contemporary Computational Advancements

Isaac Martinotti • Advisor: Juney Lee, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Vernelle A. A. Noel

A 4D Diary Co-authored by Human and Machine: Interactively Visualize, Control, and Understand Data Collection and ML Computation within Built Environments

Felicia Luo • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

A Human-Centered, Reinforcement Learning Driven Robotic Framework For Assisting Construction Workers

Yuning Wu • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Computational Methods for the Identification and Comparative Analysis of Urban Form Types: A Case Study of Rust Belt Cities

Jinmo Rhee • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ramesh Krishnamurti

Design with data-driven shape rule recognition through learning-based shape grammar interpreter

Yujeong Seo • Advisor: Vernelle A. A. Noel

Immersive Audio Design Tools: Exploring Affordances and Interaction Modalities for Spatial Sound Experiences

Yanting Deng • Advisor: Joshua Bard

Just an error? Prototyping embodied experiences of LLM hallucinations

Hongfei Ji • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Parametric-Based Models for Artistic Representations

Manuel Ladron de Guevara • Advisor: Ramesh Krishnamurti, Daragh Byrne

Reality Integrated Design: Harnessing Real-World Data for Next-Generation Virtual Environments

David Troetschel • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Robotic Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Building Construction Work

Emek Erdolu • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne, Molly Wright Steenson

Shap-Explorer: Introducing Manipulable Text-to-3D Generation Into 3D Art Creation

Xing Hao • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Space as Interface: A Computational Framework for Spatial Computing in Robotically-Assisted Construction

Jingyang Liu • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Joshua Bard

3D Art Research with Radiance Field and Style Transfer

Yuchen Cao • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ardavan Bidgoli

3D Design through Interactive Training of a Generative Reinforcement Learning Agent

Chloe Hong • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

A Collaborative Framework for Machine Learning-Based Toolmaking for Creative Practices

Ardavan Bidgoli • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Golan Levin

An Academy of Spatial Agents

Pedro Veloso • Advisor: Ramesh Krishnamurti

An Exploration of Visual Approaches in Augmented Reality to Enhance Energy Conservation in Residential Spaces Leveraging the IoT Data

Fangjie Jin • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Building a Bidirectional Bridge Between the Digital and Physical Worlds

Yinuo Han • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim

Building Information Twinning: Investigating the Software Architecture of a Building’s Digital Twin

Brad Williams • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Jinmo Rhee

Co-creative Community Installation

Jieyu Zhou • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim

Computational Methods in Knit Design

Jamaal Tribune • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Datasets for Architectural Research: A review of selected plan-based datasets and their implementations

Junjie Xu • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Eddy Man Kim, Jinmo Rhee

Decrypting the Black Box: a designer’s journey into the infinite possibilities of ML in design

Tomas Cabezon Pedroso • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Jinmo Rhee

Design with skeuomorphism or not: An Investigation of Immersive Experience Based on the Escape Room Game within the VR Framework

Tianqi Chu • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim

Designing Agents for Co-Creation in Virtual Reality with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mitchell Foo • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Designing For Accessible Sidewalk Robots – Insights From People With Motor Disabilities

Ziyu Han • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Drifting Through Design Research: An Autobiographical Rethinking of Constructing a Thesis

Yumeng Zhuang • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Generative Image AI for Design

Chengzhi Zhang • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Paul Pangaro

Location-based hybrid urban environment for intangible community heritage protection

Yang Bai • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Mobile Robot-Assisted Material Handling in Prefabricated Housing Factories

Tingsong Ou • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Place as Palimpsest: Traces to Enhance Placemaking in Virtual Environment

Boyang Lin • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Responsive Robotic Assembly with Heterogeneous Raw Wood

Jiaying Wei • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Specsync: Enhancing Privacy-Preserving Hand Tracking: An Indirect Sensing Approach Exploration for Wearables

Hongyu Mao • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim

Towards Adaptive Additive Manufacturing with Image-based Monitoring for Binder Jet 3D Printing

Linxiaoyi Wan • Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Jingyang Liu

Towards Contextualized Synthetic Dataset for Construction Site

Haoyu Liu • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ardavan Bidgoli

VisionARy: An Open Source 3D Environment Segmentation Toolkit for Augmented Reality

Yuechen Wang • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim

Collaging the Landscape Histories and Constructing Memories Through Augmented Reality

Chengyu Chen • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Creating Multisensory Experience Through Interactive Installations in Public Spaces

Yanwen Dong • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Expressive Phyto-Extensions: Design and Engineering of Plant Wearables for Communicating Environmental Information

Stella Shen • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Just Listen: Prototyping with TinyML to Augment Everyday Sound

Zhenfang Chen • Advisor: Daragh Byrne

Keeping in Touch: Situating myself amidst the incomprehensible systems of the modern world through intimate, everyday interactions

Malika Khurana • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin

Recognizable Point-cloud: An end-to-end point-cloud processing, visualization, and user-interaction design

Zishen Wen • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Robotic Metamaterials: An Integrated Modular Approach for Users to Create Robotic Applications Hands-on

Advisor: Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach

The 3D Form Analysis of Regional Architecture Using Deep Learning: A Case Study of Wood Churches from the Carpathian Mountains

Michael Hasey • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Jinmo Rhee

Thermal Cubic: Virtual Reality Based Thermal Data Visualization Engine for the Early Stage of Compact Residential Design

Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

A Computational Approach to Predicting Thermal Conductivity of Construction Material: Towards Rapid In-Situ Energy Evaluation of Existing Buildings

Noreen Saeed • Advisor: Ramesh Krishnamurti

Encoding Hygroscopic Deformation: Design for Democratizing Water-Triggered Shape-Changing Interfaces

Kexin Lu

Free-form Modeling with Physical Constraint Optimization: Exploration of a Design Space.

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Kyuha Shim

Interfacing the Multiplexer Room: Speculative Spatio-Mediated Assemblages for the Digitally-Interfered Home.

Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin

Listening Out: Towards A New Spatial-sonic Imaginary Learning

Katherine Giesa • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Rematerializing Graphs

Michael Stesney • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne, Molly Wright Steenson

ShapeHub: An Online Collaboration Platform Implementing Version Control for Collaborative Design

Advisor: Eddy Man Kim, Daniel Cardoso Llach

The Aqua-borg

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne

Visualizing Mission Initiative for Rover Space Exploration

Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Molly Steenson

A Mixed Modeling Environment Exploring Tangible and Digital Interactions for Iterative Design Modeling

Hongtao Ma • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Eddy Man Kim

An Inquiry into Crowdsourcing for Early-stage Product Design

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Children's Exploration with Social Robots in Digital Art Making

Yaxin Hu • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Crafting the Weights of a Convolutional Neural Network to Make a Drawing

Erik Ulberg • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daragh Byrne, Golan Levin

Data Processing Using Machine Learning to Analyze Floor Layout Plan Design

Yufei Cheng • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Evoking the Post-industrial Landscape Memories through Mixed Reality Soundscape

Yixiao Fu • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Generative Design Software Development Process for Architecture

SIYU GUO • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Hybrid Embroidery: Exploring Interactive Fabrication in Hand Crafts

Yi-Chin Lee • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Machine Learning for Multi-Discipline Parametric Analysis in Architectural Practice

Advisor: Ramesh Krishnamurti, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Rethinking Prop Tech: Drawing Instights About the Real Estate Technology Industry through Technical Experimentations

Ian Friedman • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim, Daniel Cardoso Llach

The Responsive Layer: Steps Towards a Digital Augmentation System to Make Everyday Objects Responsive

Yun Hao • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Toward Designing with Heterogeneous Values—A Graph Data Representation for Constructive Problem Framing in Multi-Objective Street Design

Jiawei Mai • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Towards Multi-drone Autonomous Construction via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Zhihao Fang • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

3D Microscopic Texture Interface in CAD: Cultivating Material Knowledge for the Practiced Digital Hand

Wei Wei Chi • Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

CAM as a Tool for Creative Expression: Informing Digital Fabrication through Human Interaction

Advisor: Joshua Bard

Context-rich Urban Analysis Using Machine Learning: A Case Study in Pittsburgh, PA

Jinmo Rhee • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Molly Wright Steenson, Daragh Byrne, Eddy Man Kim

Designing the Interactive Architecture Space: A System for Designing and Interacting with Appliances in Interactive Architecture Indoor Sensing Environment.

Advisor: Daragh Byrne, Daniel Cardoso Llach

GeoMatries: Machine Learning-Empowered Simulation for 4D Printing and Morphing Materials Design

Humphrey Yang • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Image-based Light Modification

Zheng Luo • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Modeling Computational Design: An Interactive Visual Analysis of the Field based on Topic Modeling and Bibliometrics

Zhuoni Yang • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

We’re In This Together: Embodied Interaction, Affect, and Design Methods in Asymmetric, Co-Located, Co-Present Mixed Reality

Advisor: Golan Levin, Daniel Cardoso Llach

A Dual Narrative for Interactive Form-generation

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

A New Web-Based Interactive Data Visualization Tool for Geo-Located Data Clustering and Its Applications in Design

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

A Topology-Based Architectural Search Engine

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Architecture Narratives: Framework for Geometry Adaptation through Representations of Voxels and Tetra-Meshes

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ramesh Krishnamurti

Designing for the Hybrid Body: Presence, Representation, and Self in Virtual Reality

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Fluid Design

Rehan Butt

Force Haptic Interaction for Room-Scale 3D Painting

Daiki Itoh • Advisor: Eddy Man Kim

Make Models Great Again: Interactively generating simplified editable models from 3D-scanned dense meshes

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Pedestrian Futures: A VR and Biometric Simulation Framework to Explore Pedestrian and Autonomous-Vehicles Interaction

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

Towards a Machine Learning Framework in Space Syntax

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

What You See Is What You Get: Data-Informed Workflow in Design for Architecture and Urbanism

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

A Concurrent Physical and Digital Modeling Environment / Exploring Tactile and Parametric Interactions in Design Modeling

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Eddy Man Kim

Design Games and Machine Learning: A Method for the Application of Machine Learning in Design Environments.

Advisor: Ramesh Krishnamurti, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Joshua Bard

Designing for Interaction and Insight: Experimental Techniques for Visualizing Building Energy Consumption Data

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Eddy Man Kim

Field Computing: Tools for Collaborative Survival

Fundamental Design Principles of Virtual Reality: Reinforcing Presence through the Manipulation of Space, Distance, and Gaze.

Dan Moore

Generating, Simulating, Interrogating: A Computational Design Thinking Framework

Scott Donaldson • Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach

HADEN: Using Virtual Reality as an Expressive Medium for Spatial Design.

Advisor: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Eddy Man Kim

Scaffolding Positive Engagements between Strangers in Public Spaces

Robert Zacharias

Toward A Theory of Design Critiquing

Yeonjoo Oh