MARK CLAYTON

Mark Clayton is a William M. Pena Professor of Information Management at the Department of Architecture, and Director of the CRS Center at the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Professor Clayton has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 1995. He has served the College of Architecture as Executive Associate Dean and the Department of Architecture as Interim Head. He was also past president of ACADIA and a founding member of ASCAAD.

NEIL LEACH

Neil Leach is a Professor at Florida International University (FIU), Tongji University, and the European Graduate School (EGS). He is an architect, curator, and writer. He has also taught at leading institutions including AA, IAAC, DIA, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell, Harvard GSD and Sci-Arc. He is also co-founder of DigitalFUTURES, and an academician in the Academy of Europe, and has published over 40 books on architectural theory and digital design.

ELIF ERDINE

Elif Erdine is an architect and researcher. Currently, she teaches at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Programme. She is the Programme Director of AA DLAB Visiting School and AA Istanbul Visiting School. She has worked for Zaha Hadid Architects during 2006 - 2010. She received her BArch. degree from Istanbul Technical University in 2003 (High Honors), and MArch. degree from the AA Design Research Lab (AA DRL) in 2006. Her interests are the integration of algorithmic generative design with large-scale digital fabrication tools, and in physical computing.

KHALED ELASHRY

Khaled Elashry is as an Associate Partner at the Applied Research and Development (ARD) group at Foster + Partners in addition to teaching at the Bartlett school of architecture, University College London. His recent work bridges the gap between architecture practice and research applying state-of-the-art technological innovation to complex design challenges with expertise in optimization, fabrication, robotics, virtual reality and data visualization. He recently worked on multiple state of the art architecture projects like the Mobility Pavilion in the UAE expo 2020, The Lusail stadium in Qatar and the UAE pavilion in Milan expo in addition to his research in robotics.