Meet Our Team

Our team is composed of students and advisors that come from a variety of different academic backgrounds. We use a unique blend of systems engineering and design thinking techniques (a human-centered design approach) to capture the real needs of the users of the educational infrastructure (students, teachers, staff, community, etc.) and transform these needs into capabilities that would inform the design recommendations.

Advisors

Academic Advisor

Sirietta Simonchini

project advisor

Tim Qi

Systems Advisor

David Lee

co-director, MANAGEMENT lead

Akhil Mithal

co-director, design lead

Ben Goldsmith

Systems Team

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Pwint Kay Khine

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Majed Alharbi

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Kurt Kuhn

Living Building Challenge Design Teams

ARCHITECTURE

Kevin Zhang

civil engineering

Lauren Fornells

architecture

Christina Xie

landscape architecture

Hilary Mulford

architecture

Baiyang Kong

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Audrey Noziere

architecture

Selin Cebel

Design + environmental analysis

Emme Wong

Architecture

Carla de Haro

Environmental sCIENCE

Rachel Qiao

Architecture

Austin Couch

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Isabel Beariault

Architecture

Lauren Franco

Visualizations Team

Design + Environmental Analysis

Annabelle Davy

INFORMATION SCIENCE

Sophie Ruan