FACULTY

Shahin Vassigh is a professor of Architecture and the Director of Technology Research Development for the College of Communication, Architecture, and the Arts (CARTA) at Florida International University (FIU). She is also the Director of the Robotics and Digital Fabrication (RDF) lab and the Co-Director of FIU’s Integrated Computer Assisted Virtual Environment (I-CAVE) lab.

Eric Peterson is an Associate Program Director of the Robotics and Digital Fabrication Lab. He is a PhD candidate in Design at University of Genoa where he is researching tools and strategies for large scale continuous fiber additive manufacturing. In the RDF Lab he is developing a new robotic end effector for large scale additive manufacturing.
Ph.D. Candidate Media Arts & Practice , USC M.S. Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University B.Arch, Woodbury University
Biayna Bogosian is an Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology at FIU CARTA. Biayna’s academic and professional background extends in the fields of architecture, environmental design, computational design, data science, spatial science, and interactive media design.


He is the Director of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (DMIS), Co-Director of the Integrated Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (I-CAVE), and Associate Director of Robotics and Digital Fabrication Lab (RDF). His main research interests include data science, multimedia big data, disaster information management, content-based image/video retrieval, and multimedia systems.


