The Sam Fox Faculty of Design & Visible Arts at Washington College in St. Louis has named Andrew Witt the inaugural Kavita and Krishna Bharat Professor, a job that focuses on the intersection of synthetic intelligence (AI) with artwork, structure and design, efficient Jan. 1. The professorship features a joint appointment on the McKelvey Faculty of Engineering.
Witt will lead college efforts in AI and design, integrating rising applied sciences into each tutorial and studio experiences and creating new programs and analysis frameworks that form the way forward for design training and apply. He’ll educate interdisciplinary studio and seminar programs in AI, computational design and geometry in each colleges and can function core school for the Sam Fox Faculty’s new Grasp of Design for Human-Laptop Interplay and Rising Know-how.
“I’m very excited for Andrew to affix our school as the primary Bharat Professor and lead our efforts to advance artistic analysis and studying alternatives in AI,” mentioned Carmon Colangelo, the varsity’s Ralph J. Nagel Dean and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration within the Arts. “Andrew’s instructing expertise, apply and analysis pursuits — rooted in structure, design and arithmetic — are completely aligned with our objectives for this distinctive place. His work operates on the innovative and on the intersections of structure, artwork, design and engineering.”
A co-founder of the artistic studio Certain Measures, Witt is internationally recognized for his scholarship on design and expertise. He has been on the college of Harvard College’s Graduate Faculty of Design since 2010, most just lately as affiliate professor in apply in structure. He’s co-director of Harvard’s Grasp in Design Engineering and the founder and director of the varsity’s Geometry Lab, which explores the intersection of design and the science of form and type.
Learn extra on the Sam Fox Faculty website.
