Karla Saldana Ochoa is a Tenured Track Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida and a faculty affiliate at the AI2 Center, the Center of Latin American Studies, and FIBER. Karla is the director of SHARE Lab, a research group focused on developing projects that leverage the interaction between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human intelligence applied to boost creativity in architectural design and create tools to analyze Big Data of Urban Phenomena. She collaborates on international projects in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, and Ecuador. Karla is an Ecuadorian architect and coder with a Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture and a Ph.D. in Technology in Architecture from ETH Zurich. Her Ph.D. researched the integration of Artificial and Human Intelligence for an accurate and agile response to natural disasters, leveraging a multimodal fusion approach for ML inference.

Adil is currently a PhD candidate at the Chair of Digital Architectonics at ETH Zürich and conducts the architecture design studio for the chair: Studio Meteora. Previously he has been a guest professor at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf, and has worked as a visual studies and studio tutor at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Städelschule Architecture Class, and National College of Arts. His experience in architectural practices includes Najmi Bilgrami Collaborative in Karachi, Zvi Hecker Architect in Berlin and Atelier Manferdini in Los Angeles.

Lee-Su Huang is a designer, educator, and researcher specializing in digital fabrication, parametric design, kinetic architecture, and interactive installations. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Instructional Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. Lee-Su received his Bachelor of Architecture from Feng-Chia University in Taiwan in 2003 and practiced in Taiwan with various firms before attaining his Master in Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2009. Afterwards, he worked for digitally innovative practices such as LASSA Architects in Seoul, Korea and Preston Scott Cohen Inc. in Cambridge, MA, specializing in complex geometry and digital fabrication.

Agostino is a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zürich. He received the Architecture & Technology Doctoral Fellowship in 2021. Currently, Agostino is a researcher within the Digital Architectonics research group, supervised by Prof. Ludger Hovestadt and Prof. Vera Bühlmann. Before joining ETHZ, he worked at Arup Studio in London, an interdisciplinary design innovation team, and taught Architectural Design at the Oxford School of Architecture and Landscape Design and Videogame Urbanism Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Agostino graduated with a Master’s degree (distinction) at the Bartlett School of Architecture under Prof. Laura Allen and Prof. Mark Smout in unit 11, where his work was awarded the Sir Banister Fletcher Medal, the Bartlett School of Architecture Medal and the Saint Gobain Innovation Prize

Wei-Chun Cheng is a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. Cheng received MS degree in Design Theory, Pedagogy, and Architectural Technologies from SCI-Arc, where he graduated with distinction and received the “Hsinming Fung and Craig Hodgetts” Post Grad Thesis Prize. In addition, he holds an M.Arch Degree from Rhode Island School of Design, where he was awarded the AIA Norton Salk Scholarship for Design Excellence. He has extensive professional experience, having practiced in Tokyo, Taipei, and Cambridge (USA). In addition to practice, he has taught as an Adjunct faculty at the Boston Architectural College. His background in architectural design strongly informs his interests in design theory, machine vision, and platform design. His research investigates the role of representation in architectural design, exploring how technique, medium, and technology reform architectural design in the age of artificial intelligence.

Jennelle is a seasoned project manager at the University of Florida working with architecture programs and biotechnology research. She manages the UF Vicenza Institute of Architecture in Italy and other study-abroad programs. She has been involved in coordinating the Playing Models Conferences since its inception in 2022.

Maud Haas is currently a student at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.