ACTIVITIES

Service

Steering Committee Member, 2005 - 2006

    ACADIA (Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture)

Steering Committee Alternate, 2004 - 2005

    ACADIA (Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture)

Paper Reviewer, 2004

    International Journal of Architectural Computing

Paper Reviewer, 2001, 2005, 2006

    2001, 2005, and 2006 ACADIA Conferences

Competition Committee Member, 2000 - 2001

    ACADIA Second International Design Competition

• I assisted Peter Anders and Kirk Martini in developing a strategy for the operation of the international design competition. My main duty was to think of ways to "break" the judging schemes that the committee came up with (i.e., tactics competitors might use to cheat or trade favors with other competitors), and to think of possible "fixes" to prevent such tactics from being used.

Contributing Editor, 2000 - 2001

    ACADIA Quarterly

• I organized a series of debate articles, which appeared under the title "Binary Oppositions." In each article, I debated some controversial CAD-related issue with another ACADIAn. Sample topics included "Should buildings designed with a computer 'look like' they were designed with a computer," and "Will computers be able to design as well as human designers in the foreseeable future?" For each article, I recruited a debate participant, wrote the argument for one side of each debate, and handled editorial duties for the column, before forwarding the article to the Quarterly editors (Wassim Jabi and Shailesh Jain) for integration into the issue.

Awards

Architecture Merit Award, 2000

    Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan

• Awarded to selected graduate students in support of research.

Rackham Travel Grants, 1997, 1998

    Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan

• Awarded to support travel to conferences for graduate students selected to present research.

Teaching Excellence Award, May 1989

    Iowa State University

• Awarded to "the top 10% of graduate students at Iowa State whose teaching contributions, as evaluated by their academic departments, are considered to be outstanding."

Memberships

American Institute of Architects (AIA), Associate Member, 2006.

Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), since 1990.

Tau Sigma Delta design honor society, admitted 1989.

Conferences Attended

ACADIA 2005, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., October 2005.

ACADIA 2004, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, November 2004 (Presenter).

ACADIA 2003, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., October 2003.

ACADIA 2001, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A., October 2001.

ACADIA 2000, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., October 2000.

ACADIA 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., October 1999.

ACADIA 1998, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, October 1998 (Presenter).

eCAADe 1998, Charenton, France, September 1998 (Presenter).

ACADIA 1997, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., October 1997 (Presenter).

ACADIA 1988, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., October 1988.