Ellen Yi-Luen Do Design Computing Georgia Tech

Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Ph.D Program, College of Architecture
Interactive & Intelligent Computing
Human Centered Computing, College of Computing
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center

245 Fourth Street, Room 219
Atlanta, GA 30332-0155

email . ellendo @ gatech . edu .
tel . 404 . 385 . 7295 . fax . 404 . 894 . 1629

Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an associate professor in the Ph.D. program at the College of Architecture, and the College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech, Ellen was on the faculty in the computational design program at Carnegie Mellon University, where she co-directed the Computational Design Laboratory CoDe Lab (Sep 04-Dec 05). She is affiliate faculty at the Human Computer Interaction Institute and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. Before CMU, she was a faculty at University of Washington (99-04) where she co-directed the Design Machine Group, and served as Faculty Advisor for the MS program in Design Computing, and the Honors Program. Prior to UW, Ellen worked at University of Colorado at Boulder (94-99) as a researcher and lecturer for the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning. She joined Georgia Tech's faculty in January 2006.

She received a Bachelor degree of architecture (Honors) from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan, with a minor in Urban Planning, a Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in design computing from Georgia Tech, with a minor in cognitive science. Her research work focuses on the development of computer aided design tools to support freehand drawing as an interface to knowledge based tools. She is interested in design cognition and the methods and processes in which people engage in design. She has conducted empirical studies of design drawing and constructed computer software to integrate knowledge based applications with freehand drawing. She has also worked in the areas of computer based visual analysis tools, collaboration and annotation, physical computing and tangible media, creative toys and the home of the future.

Her papers have appeared in peer-reviewed international conferences on computer-aided design in architecture, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, design computing and cognition, and civil engineering. She has taught design methods and theory, readings in computational design and human computer interaction, design of computational design systems, computer animation, multi-media authoring, digital design media, graphics programming, modeling and rendering with computers, and introduction to computing in architecture. She is a member of ACM , IEEE, ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) and the AIA. She is an ex-officio steering committee member at ACADIA and currently on the Editorial Board for IJAC, the International Journal of Architectural Computing. She is guest editor for a special issue on style for AIEDAM journal for Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing.

For a list of publications and projects, visit the CoDe Lab!

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