Fatma Baytar
Assistant Professor
Fashion and Body Tech Lab
Research interests: digital technologies, particularly 3D virtual prototyping and 3D body scanning, and examining how these technologies transform apparel design processes and products. She is passionate about gaining deep knowledge on the capabilities of these technologies as well as users’ interactions with them.
Denise Green
Associate Professor
Research interests: cultural studies of style and fashion, ethnographic practice, documentary film production, Native American textiles and regalia, history of anthropology, textile printing and dyeing, space and place studies, museum studies and curatorial practice.
Van Dyk Lewis
Associate Professor
Research interests: using anthropology and philosophy to understand contemporary design and fashion. A theoretician and designer, his current work focuses on sustainability, digital fashion, fashion networks, race, image, fashion as event, and fashion fictions.
Heeju Terry Park
Professor
Performance Apparel Design Lab
Research interests: thermal comfort and mobility of clothing; design, development and evaluation of protective clothing; smart clothing development; footwear comfort; athletic products and performance.
Jaleesa Reed
Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: millennial Black women’s beauty culture and beauty retail spaces. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on connecting human geography, feminist studies and merchandising in the fashion, apparel and textile industries.
Keith Evan Green
Professor
Architectural Robotics Lab
Research interest: human-robot and human-computer interaction, interactive and adaptive physical environments, enabling technologies, cyber-physical systems, and interaction design. Green’s research crosses with the Health and well-being cluster.
Saleh Kalantari
Associate Professor
Design and Augmented Intelligence Lab
Research interests: human-technology partnerships in the design process and the resulting opportunities for innovation and creativity; developing innovative AI-aided design tools with two main focus areas: (1) developing cyber-human systems to improve the application of designers’ ingenuity, skills and competencies in the creation of a unique product; and (2) using biometric sensory data (EEG sensors, heart-rate monitors, motion-capture technology, etc.) and novel computational techniques to more effectively understand human responses to architectural intervention during the design process.
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Assistant Professor
Hybrid Body Lab
Research interests: themed Hybrid Body Craft, blending aesthetic and cultural perspectives into the design of on-body interfaces, creating novel processes for crafting technology close to the body and investigating opportunities for cultural interventions in the development of technologies that move beyond wearable clothing and accessories and are purposefully designed to be placed directly on the skin surface.
Sang Leigh
Assistant Professor
Machine Poetics Lab
Research interests: Creative, critical and aesthetic use of emerging technologies in design. Leigh designs performative technological artifacts that challenge normative conceptions of products and systems. His current work explores alternative, embodied forms of AI, examining how technologies shape human experience, values and sociotechnical futures. The notion of human-technology symbiosis serves as a central model in his research.
So-Yeon Yoon
Professor
DUET Lab
Research interests: understanding user experience and usability in various types of built environments using advanced visualization and bio-sensing technologies in three main areas: a) user experience of environmental factors in using psychophysiological signals combined with high-fidelity simulations; b) creative problem-solving process and communication in relation to human-computer interaction and design focusing on individual and cultural differences; and c) design evaluation employing emerging technologies to understand emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to design elements in physical and virtually built environments.
Juan Hinestroza
Rebecca Q Morgan '60 Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design
Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory
Research interests: textile nanotechnology and smart fibers, functional nanolayers, functional nanofibers, transport phenomena in complex interfaces.
Larissa Shepherd
Assistant Professor
Research interests: tailoring nanofibers for use in military, energy and electronic applications; new fiber formation; immersion electrospinning and its potential applications.
Tamer Uyar
Associate Professor
NanoFibers & NanoTextiles Lab
Research interests: nanofibers and nanomaterials with novel functionalities for potential applications in nanotextiles, environmental/filtration/water treatment, nanobiotechnology, catalysis, food and food packaging, sensors, energy, nanoagriculture and nanocomposites.
Leighton Beaman
Associate Professor of Practice
Material Propositions Lab
Research Interest: intuitive, collaborative and inclusive processes for generating affective, sustainable and socially responsible architectural and material culture products that leverage both emergent (AI, robotics, material computation) and traditional design, making and social technologies. This research overlaps with the design strategy and innovation cluster.
Jack Elliott
Associate Professor
Research interests: minimizing the negative environmental effects of making buildings by considering the embodied energies of building materials and the implications of how they are brought together to make a building (Triakonta building systems); reducing the carbon footprint of concrete, the most abundant substance produced by humankind (Charcrete); considering the impact of aesthetics as another form of outreach pertaining to our declining biophysical situation (Arborworks).
Ying Hua
Associate Professor
Research interests: sustainable buildings with focuses on: 1) methodology and tools for building post-occupancy evaluation to understand the interaction between occupants, building systems and the resulting building environmental performance and user satisfaction, and 2) stakeholder interaction and engagement to address non-technological barriers for the delivery of sustainable buildings. She is also doing work under design strategy and innovation to understand the impact of workplace in corporate, education and healthcare settings on occupants’ perception of work environments, interactive behavior and organizational outcomes.
Renata Leitao
Assistant Professor
Research interests: at the intersection of critical design, participatory design, communication design and design anthropology, specializing in participatory action research.
