Presenter

Taro Narahara is an Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has published extensively in the fields of architecture and computational design, with works featured in IEEE TMM and SIGGRAPH. In recognition of his innovative floor plan analysis using machine learning, he was awarded the IDR Excellence Award by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Japan in 2021 and the Human Communication Award from IEICE Japan in 2020. Narahara has led NSF-funded projects as a Principal Investigator, focusing on computational design research for multifamily residential architecture in 2022, and collaborated as a Co-Principal Investigator with biomedical engineers on rehabilitation robotics and therapeutic gaming in 2016. Between 2018 and 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar with the ETH Zurich’s Institute of Technology in Architecture, Switzerland, and with the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He holds a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University, where he won the Peter Rice Prize, and an M.S. degree from MIT. As a licensed architect, he was associated with prestigious firms such as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Gluckman Mayner Architects, contributing to award-winning projects such as the Mori Art Museum.