Biography

Dr. Wei Yan, Director of PhD & MS Research Programs in Department of Architecture, Mattia Flabiano III AIA/Page Southerland Page Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University, with expertise in Computational Methods in Architecture, Augmented Reality, AI, Building Information Modeling, Parametric Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization. He has led research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Autodesk, Inc., etc. and co-led NSF, DOE, ASHRAE, etc. projects. He received the Best Paper Prize in Design Computing and Cognition 2006 and the Best Paper Award in Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies / HCI International 2022. He was named a Presidential Impact Fellow in 2017 and a recipient of the Student Government Association Open Educator Award in 2019, both at Texas A&M. Yan was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Architecture and M.S. in Computer Science), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Nachdiplomstudium - Postgraduate Studies in Computer-Aided Architectural Design), and Tianjin University (M.E. in Architectural Technology & Science and B.E. in Architecture). In 2012, he was a Guest Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. In 2007, he received NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant.