Presenter

Taro Narahara is an Associate Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, holding a Doctor of Design from Harvard University, where he won the Peter Rice Prize, and an M.S. from MIT. His research spans computational design, AI, and VR, with publications in IEEE TMM and SIGGRAPH, including his 2024 Immersive Pavilion exhibition. He received the 2020 Human Communication Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and the 2021 IDR Excellence Award from the National Institute of Informatics (NII Japan) for his AI-driven floor plan research. Narahara led NSF-funded projects on architectural design automation (PI, 2022) and therapeutic gaming (Co-PI, 2016). In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Technology in Architecture and the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. A licensed architect in New York and Japan, he contributed to award-winning projects, including the Mori Art Museum, with Gluckman Mayner Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.