Architectural Designer · AI Researcher · Graphic Designer
Building bridges between the AEC and AI industry — working at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and human-in-the-loop AI systems.
| IAAC | MSc, AI for Architecture and Business Innovation (present) — 3rd Place, Infrared City Hackathon |
| UPenn Weitzman School of Design | MSD, Advanced Architectural Design, graduated with distinction (2022–2023) — Advanced Architectural Design Award (Runner-up), Bio-Design Challenge Selection |
| R.V. College of Architecture | B.Arch (2016–2021) — Head of Graphics Committee (Dimensions 13), Organizing Head (Journey Shared) |
I'm preparing to return to India to launch a fab lab in Bangalore, focused on making digital and robotic fabrication accessible to designers and makers. My biomaterials research at DumoLab (Tegula, Eggregate, Bagaseat) and a paper accepted at ACADIA sit alongside this fabrication and AI work.
Clay-Create A co-creative ceramic fabrication system using depth camera scanning, height maps, and projection mapping to give participants live digital feedback as they sculpt clay blocks into a continuous wall relief.
Talk_To_Tim An AI-assisted BIM workflow generating timber structural systems inside Revit, combining a knowledge graph, Eurocode data, and an LLM/GNN pipeline.
infrared-hackathon A climate-aware scheduling tool that scores calendar events for thermal comfort using urban microclimate data. 3rd place, Infrared City Hackathon.
Other repos: Open-to-Sky (sky visibility vs. urban heat risk in NYC) · Disperse (satellite imagery + deep learning for crowd density) · CIRCUIT (CV pipeline for timber upcycling)
DumoLab, University of Pennsylvania · 2023–2025 Project Lead & Research Assistant — food waste valorization into construction biomaterials; work exhibited at the CCA Biomaterials Symposium
Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania · 2023–2025 Lecturer / Co-lecturer / TA — AI (Stable Diffusion) in Design, Robotic Fabrication, New Materials, Architectural Design Studio; invited speaker and reviewer at Pratt Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, and UPenn
NAME Architecture · 2026 Freelance Designer — NEOM healthcare design guideline diagrams and visual narrative
System Architects, NYC · 2024 Volunteer — 'New Museum of Architecture and Design' Helsinki competition (renderings, light animations, spatial design)
| Category | Tools | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| Design & Modeling | AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, Revit (BIM, add-ins), Grasshopper (parametric design, UDP pipelines), SketchUp | Talk_To_Tim, Clay-Create |
| Rendering & Graphics | Adobe Suite, KeyShot, Lumion, Enscape | — |
| Fabrication | Arduino, FDM 3D Printing, ABB Robotic Fabrication, Woodworking, Depth Camera Systems (Orbbec Astra, point cloud capture) | Clay-Create |
| Development | Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, FastAPI, Flask, React Native (Expo), React, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0 | Clay-Create, infrared-hackathon, Disperse |
| AI & ML | LLM Prompt Engineering, Claude API (tool use, streaming, extended thinking), OpenCV, YOLO, PyTorch (MiDaS), MediaPipe, GNN pipelines, Knowledge Graphs, DALL-E 3, N8N, ML model training | Clay-Create, Talk_To_Tim, infrared-hackathon, Disperse |
| Computer Vision & Fabrication Tech | ArUco markers, Roboflow, depth/point cloud processing | CIRCUIT, Clay-Create |
| Environmental & Geospatial | UTCI thermal comfort (Infrared SDK), solar radiation modeling, geospatial data processing (QGIS), Heat Vulnerability Index data, weather API integration, Google Calendar API | infrared-hackathon, Open-to-Sky |
Architectural License (India), Council of Architecture · AI in Architecture Design, Delft University of Technology · AI-Driven Computational Design, MIT xPRO
English (Fluent) · Tamil (Native) · Hindi (Fluent) · Kannada (Native) · French (A1)
AI in architecture · human-in-the-loop design systems · robotic and digital fabrication · biomaterials · responsible AI · projection mapping