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Jeffrey Huang
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Media and Design Laboratory (IC/ENAC)
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BIOGRAPHY
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Jeffrey Huang is the Director of the Media and Design Laboratory and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Communication Sciences, and at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC).
His research explores the vision of fusing physical and virtual architectures. His current research and teaching projects include the examination of emerging architectural typologies (workspaces, banking, museums, theater), novel, organic approaches to architectural design (parametric design, algorithmic design), data-driven visualizations (such as cityrank.ch), the integration of physical computing (sensors, actuators, RFID, LEDs, mobile devices) into architecture and cities, and more generally, design-centered approaches to human-computer interaction (design thinking). See current projects.
Current and recent design research studios include: Organicités 1: Parametric Skyscrapers, Personal Interaction Studio, and Organicités 2: Thickness.
Prior to joining the EPFL in 2006, he was a professor at the Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He was also a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's d.school, and Designer-in-Residence at Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Research Lab. In partnership with Muriel Waldvogel, he is co-counder and principal of Convergeo, an international design firm. A native of Rome, Italy, and a Swiss citizen of Chinese origins, Huang received his DiplArch from ETHZ and his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Harvard, where he was awarded the Gerald McCue Medal.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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The Swisshouse : An Inhabitable Interface for Connecting Nations, Huang, J., and Waldvogel, M., In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 1-4, 2004; ACM 2004; 195-204.
Future Space: A New Blueprint for Business Architecture, Huang, J., Harvard Business Review (April 2001); Volume 7, Number 4, 2001; pp. 149-161.
How Do Distributed Design Organizations Act Together To Create A Meaningful Design?, Huang, J., In Computers in Buildings: Proceedings of CAAD Futures '99, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Costanza E., Huang J.,(2009) "Designable Visual Markers" in ACM CHI2009, April 2009, Boston, MA, USA. Nominated for Best Paper Award.
Meagher, M., Van der Maas, D., Abegg, C., and Huang, J., (2009),"Dynamic ornament: Climatically responsive surfaces in architectural design" in Proceedings of the 13th International CAAD Futures 09 Conference.
LaBelle, G, Nembrini, J, Huang, J., (2009), Programming framework for architectural design ANAR+: Object oriented geometry" in Proceedings of the 12th International CAAD Futures Conference. Winner of Best Presentation Award.
Nembrini, J, LaBelle, G, Meagher, M, Zuelzke, N, and Huang, J: (2009), "Source studio:teaching programming for architectural design," Poster in CAAD Futures 2009.
Huang, J., Cherubini, M., Nova, N., and Dillenbourg, P., (2009) "Why Would Furniture Be Relevant for Collaborative Learning?" in P. Dillenbourg, J. Huang, and M. Cherubini, (eds.) Collaborative Artefacts and Interactive Furniture. CSCL Book Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Dillenbourg, P., Huang, J., and Cherubini, M., editors. (2009) Collaborative Artefacts and Interactive Furniture. CSCL Book Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Huang, J., and Waldvogel, M. (2008) "Interactive Spaces," in Adams, R, Gibson, S and Arisona, S. M. (eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science: Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg
LaBelle, G, Nembrini, J, Huang, J., (2008), Simulation-Driven Design System [Phototropic Architecture], In eCAADe 2008 “architecture in computro”, page 469, Antwerp
Meagher, M., Huang, J., Gerber, D., (2007), "Revisiting the Open Plan: Ceilings and Furniture as Display Surfaces for Building Information," in 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation, IV 2007, 2-6 July 2007: 601-606
Burkhard, R.; Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N.; Dykes, J., Koutamanis, A., Kienreich, W., Phaal, R., Blackwell, A., Eppler, M., Huang, J., Meagher, M., Grün, A., Lang, S., Perrin, D., Weber, W., Vande Moere, A., Herr, B., Börner, K.., Fekete, J.-D. and Brodbeck, D. (2007), "Visualization Summit 2007: Ten Research Goals for 2010", Information Visualization, Volume 6, Number 3, 25 October 2007 , pp. 169-188(20), Palgrave Macmillan.
Huang, J., and Waldvogel, M., (2006), “Open City," in Chatelet V. (editor), Interactive Cities, Editions HYX, Paris
Sun, X., Chiu, P., Huang, J., Back, M., Polak, W. (2006), Implicit Brushing and Target Snapping: Data Exploration and Sense-making on Large Displays, Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces ¬ AVI2006, A. Celentano (ed.), Gallipoli (Venice), Italy, ACM Press.
Huang, J., (2006) “Inhabitable Interfaces,” in Messaris, P., and Humphrey, L, (eds.) Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication, New York, Peter Lang
Liu, Q., Kimber, D., Zhao, F., and Huang, J., “Framework for effective use of multiple displays,” (2005) Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium ITCom 2005 on Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 2005
Huang, J., and Waldvogel, M., (2005), “Interactive Wallpaper,” in SIGGRAPH Electronic Arts and Animation Catalog (EAAC), SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles.
Meagher, M., Bielaczyc, B., and Huang, J., (2005), OpenD: Supporting Parallel Development of Digital Designs. Proceedings of ACM Design of User Experience Conference, DUX 2005, San Francisco, November 2005.
Huang, J., (2005), “Smart Offices,” Book chapter in Chiu, M.L., (ed.), Toward a Smart Environment, Taipei, Garden City Publishing.
Huang, J., and Srinivasan, R., (2004), “Fluid Ontologies for Digital Museums,” Journal for Digital Libraries, Springer Verlag, Vol 4, No.2
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Current work
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Digital Home: platform for designing, prototyping and testing domestic technologies and systems
Interactive City: research studio examining the effects of digitalization on architectural typologies and contemporary cities (future of banking)
d-touch: visual markers for mobile human-computer interaction
Spatial Data Visualization: development of interactive building elements that visualize micro-qualities of space
Morphogenetic Phototropism: parametric design processes for architectural design and energy harvesting
Jeffrey Huang's research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Nokia Design, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) and the EPFL Provost's FIFO Innovation Grant.
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Full Professor 