International Roundtable for HCI in Architecture
(an HCI Forum parallel session)

Speaker Bios

Yu-Tung Liu:

Yu-Tung Liu is the founding professor of Graduate Institute of Architecture at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He received Doctor of Design from Harvard in association with MIT. Visiting positions include Harvard, MIT, Oslo, Chile, Technion and Beijing. He was the president of Computer Aided Architectural Design and Research in Asia Association from 2002 to 2004. He has been invited to chair the review committee of the Far East International Digital Architectural Design Award (Feidad Award) since 2000. He has been awarded the Ivan Petrovic Prize in 2003 and recognized the Contemporary Chinese Construct Expert by Ministry of Construction, China in 2006. Recently, he just completed a new exhibition which contains implementations of CAD/CAM, VR, HCI, Wireless in Taipei Museum of Arts and will be moved to Spain and Italy for display.

Jin-Yeu Tsou:

Prof. Tsou is the Director of the Center for Housing Innovations (CHI), Associate Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Sciences (ISEIS), and Director of Virtual Simulation Lab.

Supported by the Ministry of Construction of China (MOC), he established the Center for Housing Innovation in 1998, specializing in China's urban housing research and design computation. The goal of the Center for Housing Innovation is to achieve high quality, affordable urban housing for high density built environments, and to improve the livability, efficiency, and sustainability of urban housing in China through design and multi-disciplinary technology innovations.

Prof. Tsou is involved in a large number of professional bodies and community services; he is one of the founders of the Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), President of CAADRIA, 1998-2002 and the Honorary Advisor since 2002. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computing in Civil and Structural Engineering (ISCCSE) for more than 10 years.

His research has focused on different aspects of building performance assessment with respect to computational fluid dynamics, urban visual sustainability, daylighting, urban acoustics, and remote sensing. Major research projects involved the area of performance-based building design and planning conducted from the supercomputer computation. During the SARS period, he leaded a multi-disciplinary team to conduct investigation on the Amoy Gardens, and submitted the report Wind Curtain Effect in Amoy Garden Accentuates Vertical Spread of Viruses to the WHO.

Taysheng Jeng:

Dr. Taysheng Jeng is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and the Institute of Creative Industry Design in National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received a Bachelor degree of Architecture from National Cheng Kung University, a Master of Arts in Architecture from University of California in Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in design computing in 1999 from Georgia Institute of Technology, with a minor in computer science.

His research focuses on digital media, computer aided design, and interaction design for smart living spaces. He has received more than ten research grants from Taiwan National Science Council in the past seven years, and has published eight Journal papers and over twenty conference papers in the area of computer aided design and architectural computing.

He has conducted three nationwide interactive media exhibitions in Taiwan. Recently, he finished a design for a smart home of the future in a large live-in laboratory, a long-term cross-disciplinary research project involving design and computer industry.

Qi Zhou:

Dr. Qi Zhou is a Professor of Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing, China and a registered architect. He received his Master of Architecture from Southeast University, China in 1990, and a Ph. D. in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 2002. His research areas are on applying ecological technology to architectural design, Internet applications in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. He had presented various papers at the Association of Computer Aided Design in America (ACADIA) conference, the Computer Aided Architectural Design and Research in Asia (CAADRIA) conference, and the European Computer Aided Architectural Design (ECAADE) conference. Currently, he is the Conference Chair of CAADRIA 2007, to be held in Nanjing, China, April 19-22.

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