Computational Design

End-User Programming in Computer-Aided Design

Halil I. Erhan

Assistant Professor

BArch (METU); MSc (Clemson U.); PhD (Carnegie Mellon)

T: +1.778.782.7423
F: +1.778.782.7478
E: herhan at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.sfu.ca/~herhan

Halil Erhan received his BArch degree from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. During his Masters study at Clemson University, he investigated 3D model integration in representing building design and construction information. As a result of this study, he became interested in Design Computation. He pursued this interest in his PhD study at Carnegie Mellon University. The topic of his thesis related to interactive design requirements specification. He is currently an assistant professor of School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. His research interests span from design of complex systems and design cognition to software engineering strategies and education. Particularly, he concentrates on generative aspects of complex systems developed for supporting wide spectrum of design activities and visual analytic of latent dependencies in design information space.

Robert Woodbury

Professor

BArch (Carleton); MSc, PhD (Carnegie Mellon)

T: +1.778.782.7501
F: +1.778.782.7478
E: rw at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.siat.sfu.ca/faculty/Rob-Woodbury

Robert Woodbury holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University (Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal) and Master of Science and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He was a faculty member in Architecture and the Engineering Design Research Center at CMU from 1982-1993, at Adelaide University (Australia) from 1993-2001, at the Technical University of British Columbia from 2001-2002 and is now at Simon Fraser University. He was founding Chair of the Graduate Program in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU and of the Canadian Design Research Network. He is a former Olympian in sailing.

Andy T. Huang

Graduate Student

Campus Sleeper

E: huang underscore a at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.andyhuang.tel

Andy Huang is sleeping towards his Masters of Science at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology as Simon Fraser University. He dreams about people collaborating across vast distances using futuristic technologies that offers intuitive user interfaces. In his dreams, he enjoys working with new technologies and gadgets, as well as hacking them to work in fun new ways.

Diliara Nasirova

Graduate Student

M. Sc Candidate (SIAT, SFU); B. Sc (CEIT, METU)

E: contact at diliaranasirova dot com
W: http://www.diliaranasirova.com

In 2009, Diliara Nasirova received her Bachelor of Science degree from Middle East Technical University in Turkey, Ankara, in Computer Education and Instructional Technologies program. Currently she is working towards her Masters of Science at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. Her research is focused on designing better interfaces considering human factors, particularly, cognition, spatial orientation, visual communication and learning skills.

Karine Kozlova

Graduate Student

Specialist, Information Systems and Technologies

T: +1.778.229.8644
E: karine dot kozlova at sfu dot ca

Karine Kozlova holds a degree of Specialist in Information Systems and Technologies from Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Moscow, Russia). Currently she is a PhD student at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in discovering new possibilities that could help people communicate with software in a more effective and intuitive way. Her PhD research is about the role of history visualization in collaborative decision making.

Maryam M. Maleki

Graduate Student

Ph.D. Candidate; MSc in Architecture

E: mmaleki at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.maryammaleki.com

Maryam Maleki holds a Master of Science in Architecture and is currently studying a Ph.D. at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University, Canada. Maryam’s Ph.D. thesis is on end-user programming in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems. The project proposes programming in the model view as a way to bring the task of architectural design and computer programming closer by imposing scripting on the 2D/3D model. She is also interested in computational geometry, and parametric modeling in general. She enjoys writing small programs in the context of her projects.

Ph.D., School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, BC, Canada, Sep 2007 - Present
MSc. in Architectural Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, Graduation February 2006

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Siniša Kolarić

Graduate Student

T: +1.778.782.7474
E: skolaric at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.sfu.ca/~skolaric

Ever since he penciled his first sketch of a single-family residence as a little kid, and developed his first CAD application as a high school student, Sinisa Kolaric has been interested in architectural & product design, landscaping and urban design, as well as in advancing the state-of-art in various technological areas pertinent to computer-aided design (CAD). Sinisa Kolaric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics (with emphasis on theoretical computer science) from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, a Master of Computer Science degree (with emphasis on 3D computer graphics) from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is currently studying in the PhD programme (with emphasis on computational design/computer-aided design) at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada.

Vinu Subashini Rajus

Graduate Student

E: vrajus at sfu dot ca

Vinu is currently a doctoral student in School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. She holds a Masters in Digital Architecture (M.Arch) from Anna University, India and a Bachelors of Architecture from Madras University, India. She is interested in computational design, parametric modeling and sustainability.

Cheryl Zhenyu Qian

Alumna

PhD (SIAT, SFU); M. Sc (SIAT, SFU); B. Sc (UT)

E: cherylq at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.sfu.ca/~cherylq/

Holding a Bachelor degree in Architecture and a Master degree of Applied Science in Interactive Arts, Cheryl Qian is specifically interested in the cognitive and HCI issues of application design in terms of supporting designers' intention, creativity and expertise. Her PhD research aims to observe, understand, support and augment user intention and action in parametric design systems. The users she focused on comprise active designers - more specifically, architects and civil engineers. Her objective in the study is to understand the mid-level patterns of work that recur across designers and tasks. Making such patterns explicit may result in improved expert work practices, in better learning material and suggestions for improvements in parametric design interfaces.

David Botta

Alumnus

MFA (U of Calgary)

E: davidbotta at gmail dot com
W: http://www.sfu.ca/~botta ; http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~botta

Practiced 3D animation with DigiPen Computer Graphics Inc, and then under the auspices of UBC's Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC). With Xing Xing Computer Graphics Inc. (also under MAGIC) completed an animated tour of a sub-garden of the famous destroyed Chinese garden Yuan Ming Yuan. Practiced product development, graphical user interface design and interaction design with DNA Multimedia Inc., and then with Recombo Inc., in the area of supporting standards for distance education. Practiced product development and interaction design with CrowdTrust Inc., in the area of social bookmarking and tagging. Practiced qualitative research and analysis in the area of information security management, with UBC's Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering.

Nahal H. Salmasi

Alumna

M. Sc (SIAT, SFU); B. Sc (UT)

T: +1.604.722.4678
E: nhsalmasi at gmail dot com
W: http://www.sfu.ca/~nhassanz/

Nahal H. Salmasi holds a Master of Science in Interactive Arts and Technology from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Science in Civil - Structural Engineering from Tabriz University in Iran. In her research, she mainly focused on sensitivity analysis of parametric design models.

Roham (Mehdi) Sheikholeslami

Alumnus

M. Sc (SIAT, SFU); B. Sc (UT)

E: msheikho at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.rohamsh.com

Victor Chen

Alumnus

PhD (SIAT, SFU); M. Sc (SIAT, SFU); B. Sc (UT)

E: yvchen at sfu dot ca
W: http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/victor_yingjie_chen.html (temporary)

Victor Chen received a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Science in Information Technology. His PhD research combines data mining to compute implicit relations in large data collections with information visualization of neighborhoods in the computed relations. Its objective is to study interactive computer software to support human problem-solving, decision-making and understanding. In this study, his interest in data mining is as a tool to reduce the millions of items in a collection into a graph with neighborhoods of hundreds of related items. Victor’s main hypothesis is that understanding the neighborhoods and the comparisons among them can be greatly aided by interactive graph visualization.