Biography
Jeffrey Huang is the Director of the Institute of Architecture at EPFL (as of May 1, 2020), Founding Director of the Media x Design Lab, and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), and at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at EPFL. He holds a DiplArch from ETH Zurich, and Masters and Doctoral Degrees from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Gerald McCue medal for academic excellence. Prior to EPFL, he was an Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was also a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s d.school, a Berkman Fellow at Harvard‘s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and the first Head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Professor Huang’s research examines the convergence of physical and digital architecture. His recent work investigates new artificial design paradigms, theories of experience design, and algorithmic urbanism.