Bio

Fereshteh Shahmiri is a first year PhD student in the area of Design Computing. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a MS degree in Computational Design. She joined CMU-Digital Fabrication Lab and her main research has been focused on Robotic Fabrication and Human Robot Interaction. She also has experience in software development and integration of different application interfaces. By involvement in CMU-CoDe Lab, where she has received The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO grant for Creative Inquiry, part of her experience and research has been focused on the area of Interactive Design. Beside academic activities, she has professional experience in software industry. She has worked at Bentley Systems where she has established a framework for parametric modeling software environment and has been involved in development of GenerativeComponents. She also worked as a design-analysis application developer at Gensler in order to develop required applications in response to design, analysis and optimization demands.

She holds a bachelor degree in architectural engineering from Tehran University of Arts; has attended Architectural Association of London (AA) summer school programs; is certified in further education and training in ‘Membrane Structures’ by IMS (Institute for Membrane and Shell Structure, Anhalt University of Applied Science, Germany); and also is certified in advance course and intensive training in ‘Spatial Structures and Systems’ by Surrey University, UK