Dr. Rudi Stouffs

Rudi Stouffs is Dean’s Chair Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research). He leads the Architectural and Urban Prototyping lab, is Research Thrust Leader for Parametric BIM in the NUS Centre of Excellence in BIM Integration, and Principal Investigator in the Future Resilient Systems II research programme (Singapore ETH Centre). He received his PhD in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc in Computational Design, also from CMU, and an MSc in Architectural Engineering from the Free University Brussels. He has held previous appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich, and TU Delft. He is vice-president (elect) of eCAADe, the association for Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. He is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Architectural Computing, AI-EDAM, and Cogent Social Sciences. He acts as a reviewer for numerous international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, as well as national research foundations. His research expertise and interests include computational issues of description, modelling, and representation for design, in the areas of shape recognition and design generation, building information modelling and analysis, virtual cities and digital twins.