College of Structure and Planning welcomes new college for 2025

4 new college members be part of the College of Structure and Planning (SA+P) this fall, providing the MIT group creativity, information, and scholarship in multidisciplinary roles.

“These people add appreciable energy and depth to our college,” says Hashim Sarkis, dean of the College of Structure and Planning. “We’re excited for the educational vigor they convey to analysis and instructing.”

Karrie G. Karahalios ’94, MEng ’95, SM ’97, PhD ’04 joins the MIT Media Lab as a full professor of media arts and sciences. Karahalios is a pioneer within the exploration of social media and of how individuals talk in environments which might be more and more mediated by algorithms that, as she has written, “form the world round us.” Her work combines computing, methods, synthetic intelligence, anthropology, sociology, psychology, recreation principle, design, and infrastructure research. Karahalios’ work has acquired quite a few honors together with the Nationwide Science Basis CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Analysis Fellowship, SIGMOD Greatest Paper Award, and recognition as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Pat Pataranutaporn SM ’18, PhD ’20 joins the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor of media arts and sciences. A visionary technologist, scientist, and designer, Pataranutaporn explores the frontier of human-AI interplay, inventing and investigating AI methods that help human thriving. His analysis focuses on how personalised AI methods can amplify human cognition, from studying and decision-making to self-development, reflection, and well-being. Pataranutaporn will co-direct the Advancing People with AI Program.

Mariana Popescu joins the Division of Structure as an assistant professor. Popescu is a computational architect and structural designer with a powerful curiosity and expertise in progressive methods of approaching the fabrication course of and use of supplies in development. Her space of experience is computational and parametric design, with a deal with digital fabrication and sustainable design. Her intensive involvement in initiatives associated to selling sustainability has led to a multilateral improvement of expertise, which mix the fields of structure, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. Popescu earned her doctorate at ETH Zurich. She was named a “Pioneer” on the MIT Expertise Assessment international record of “35 innovators below 35” in 2019.

Holly Samuelson joins the Division of Structure as an affiliate professor within the Constructing Expertise Program at MIT, instructing architectural know-how programs. Her instructing and analysis deal with problems with constructing design that affect human and environmental well being. Her present initiatives harness superior constructing simulation to analyze problems with greenhouse fuel emissions, warmth vulnerability, and indoor environmental high quality whereas contemplating the way forward for buildings in a altering electrical energy grid. Samuelson has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers, profitable a finest paper award from the journal Vitality and Constructing. As a acknowledged professional in architectural know-how, she has been featured in information retailers together with The Washington Publish, The Boston Globe, the BBC, and The Wall Avenue Journal. Samuelson earned her physician of design from Harvard College Graduate College of Design.