Shani Sharif

Shani Sharif

 

Shani Sharif is an architect and researcher, currently pursuing her doctoral studies in Computational Design. She hold a SMArchS in Design and Computation from MIT, a MArch from Shahid Beheshti University, and a BArch from the University of Tehran with a focus in digital fabrication and a minor in computer science and cognitive science, her research concerns human-robot collaboration in digital design and fabrication processes.

Shani currently teaches Robotic Fabrication, and Materials and Fabrication courses at Digital Fabrication Laboratory, and is engaged in BIM focused research projects at Digital Building Lab at Georgia Tech. She was previously an adjunct professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology where she taught courses on complex geometries and fabrication, a researcher at MIT Media Lab and School of Architecture and Planning, and project architect at Design Core and ATEC Consultants.