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Amira Abdel-Rahman
Incoming Assistant Professor
Joint appointment in the multicollege Department of Design Tech and Cornell Engineering's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Material-Robot Systems · Inverse & Generative Design · Large-scale Meta-structures
Cornell University
Research
From programmable building blocks to reconfigurable architectures: we create the computational and fabrication tools to engineer matter across scales.
Designing material systems with embodied intelligence: from digital and programmable matter to structural robotics to blur the boundary between structure and machine.
Developing new computational workflows that integrate simulation, optimization, and generative methods with novel geometry representations to design architected structures from desired performance.
Exploring growth, morphing, and reconfiguration principles for scalable macro-scale structures built from discrete building blocks.
Creating new fabrication techniques inspired by natural construction strategies: from bio-inspired assembly to self-replicating structures.
People
Incoming Assistant Professor
Joint appointment in the multicollege Department of Design Tech and Cornell Engineering's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Join Us
Interested in rethinking how we design and make things? We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch at amiraa at cornell.edu