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worked at Nuvu studio, Kennedy&Violich architecture / Design Earth / James Carpenter design Associates / Center for architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure / Case design / the Daily Princetonian

skilled at rhino, Revit, Cad, Qgis, Flow design, Diva, Grasshopper, Adobe suite, Woodwork, Routing, welding.

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EXPERIENCE

ACTION LAB (MIT J-PAL GLOBAL)
June 2018- Present
Research/ Education/ Training intern at J-PAL Global. Working with new Training
Manager to facilitate Executive Education trainings in India, Uganda and Cambridge,
MA. Interface with stakeholders and regional offices to enhance curriculum
development. Supporting MITx/EdX MicroMasters curriculum development.
Supporting research transparency initiative for Randomized Control Trial databases.

BOARD DIRECTOR / HARVARD- MIT COOPERATIVE SOCIETY,
June 2015- Present
Graduate student director of retail cooperative store serving Harcard and MIT
students. The “Coop” is one of America’s largest and oldest campus stores.

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT / MIT RESILIENT CITIES
HOUSING INITIATIVE (RCHI)
August 2017- Present
Research urban resilient design in Dhaka, BD and Mexico City for Professor
Lawrence Vale. Manage RCHI website, organize events, translate documents to
English from Spanish and Bengali.

TRUSTEE / COLGATE UNIVERSITY
June 2015- Present
Served on three committees: Audit & Risk Management, Capital Assets & Planning,
University Affairs. Oversaw Sasaki campus master plan for future development of
housing (dorms), arts center, and recreation center.

FOUNDER & CEO / LAKOTA CHILDREN’S  ENRICHMENT
April 2008- July 2017
Raised over $1,000,000. Guided the vision, brand, development and goals of the
organization over 9 years to meet community needs and deliver impactful results and
serve over 15,000 youth annually in rural Native American communities. Completed
successful succession plan and executive search.

EDUCATION

MASTER CITY PLANNING / 2019 EXPECTED
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GPA: 4.8 / 5.0. Some Courses: Budget & Finance; Quantitative Reasoning;
Geospatial Analysis; Microeconomics; Economics for Planners; Economic
Development Planning Practicum; Housing & Economic Development.

BACHELOR OF ARTS / AUGUST 2009- JUNE 2013
Colgate University
Magna Cum Laude & Honors. GPA: 3.51 / 4.0. Received over 20 academic
awards including highest for a graduating Senior, the “1819 Award.”

ARIANE DE ROTHSCHILD FELLOW / 2014-2015
Cambridge Judge Business School & Cornell Johnson School of Management
Certificate in Entrepreneurship. Studied: Finance, Budgeting, Accounting

SKILLS
Arc GIS, Statistics, R Programming Language, Research, Writing, Microsoft Office, Team Management, Word Press, Graphic Design Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS, Budget, Nonprofit Finance, Spanish, Bengali

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Annie is a dual-degree masters student in MIT’s Urban Studies & Planning and Science in Transportation departments. Her research focuses on city planning for autonomous vehicles. Prior to her time at MIT, she worked for several years as an energy policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, honing an expertise on energy transitions in Europe as well as ‘frontier’ energy innovations.

She also spent several years in Seattle where she worked in communications for a wide variety of urban mobility clients, ranging from car-sharing company Zipcar to bike-sharing company Zagster. She received her bachelors in world politics and German literature from Hamilton College. Annie is currently a fellow with the MIT Automated Mobility Policy Project.

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Joey Swerdlin is in pursuit of architectural happiness.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Community Director at The Morpholio Project. He is also a member of Group Project, a collaborative working to connect architectural discourse with contemporary issues of social justice, mass incarceration, and food equity through an ongoing project withGrowingChange.

After studying Architecture and German at the University at Buffalo, Joey worked for Storefront for Art and Architecture, Ants of the Prairie/Joyce Hwang, Liminal Projects, CLOG, OFFICE Kersten Geers David van Severen, Richard Meier and Partners, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and WOJR: Organization for Architecture.

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Yue was born and grew up in Shaoxing and Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. He holds a Master of Architecture Degree from Tongji University and a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Dalian University of Technology, with a distinguished graduate award. Concurrent with his study, Yue has also practiced as an architecture intern and an urban designer in Kengo Kuma & Associates, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and SOM.

Areas of InterestAlternative Energy, Climate Change, Infrastructure Systems, Machine Learning, Sustainability, Urban Design, Urban Information, Technology, and Media and Analytics, Visualization

EducationM.Arch, Tongji UniversityB.Arch, Dalian University of Technology

Academic ExperienceGraduate Research Assistant, MIT Center for Advanced UrbanismGraduate Communication Coordinator, MIT China Future City LabTeaching Assistant, MIT 4.189 MArch Thesis PrepTeaching Assistant, MIT 4.032/4.033 Information and VisualizationTeaching Assistant, Tongji University Frontier of Architecture: Craft

Professional ExperienceArchitecture Trainee, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)Urban Designer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)Researcher, Future Plus | Columbia University Beijing CenterArchitecture Intern, Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA)Researcher, China Architecture Design Group

AwardsSOM China Prize Recipient, SOM FoundationThird Prize, Shanghai Urban Design ChallengeThird Prize, Futurizing Breaks Architecture Design CompetitionExcellent Prize, Circos International Architecture Design CompetitionExcellent graduate, Education Department of Liaoning ProvinceThird Prize, TEAMZERO Award Architecture Student Design CompetitionExcellent Prize, National Architectural Exchange Student Design CompetitionNational Scholarship, The Ministry of Education of the Republic of ChinaExcellent Prize, National Architecture Student Design CompetitionSumitomo Chemical Scholarship, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

ExhibitionsMicrocity of Shanghai, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2015

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I am a passionate Computational Urban Designer and Planner in my second year at MIT as a dual degree Masters candidate. My background is in Architectural Design, Construction Tech and Mix-use Real Estate Development. At MIT I specialize in Urbanism and Real Estate Analytics, researching product, processes, and data technologies to improve the way we live, work and play in cities. I am interested in working with multidisciplinary teams to think differently about the built environment through design, computation, finance, and planning.

EDUCATION

MIT School of Architecture + Planning. Dual Degree Candidate. Master of Science in Architectural Studies & Master of City Planning (MCP). Researcher at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab.
2017-2020

B.Arch. (Professional degree in Architecture) Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
2007-2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS

High proficiency - Qgis, Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, Adobe PS, AI, ID & AutoCAD. Intermediate Proficiency- post SQL, Python, JS, C4D & Unity3D.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-2017

Lovett Commercial Houston, Texas Design & Analytics - 18 months 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT - Post HTX: Design and Development of a 16 Acre mix use project in downtown Houston. Working with OMA, S9, WW and Gensler to produce a unique urban scale adaptive reuse vision.

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT – leading the design and construction process of a residential community (80 lots) near Fannin Station, Houston .

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT - Design and construction documentation for multiple Pre Engineered Metal Buildings for retail and office use.

PLATFORM INTEGRATION - Developing computational methods to relate financial and construction procedures in Revit. Training large drafting teams in BIM environments and visualization techniques in the U.S and China.

2014-2016
Elkus Manfredi Architects Boston, Massachusetts
Architectural Designer and Planner - 2 years

URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING - Buttonville City Quarter - Ontario, Canada. Master Plan work. Transportation and density analysis. Design guidelines for a new residential neighborhood (2,500 units), commercial center (500k SQF) and office complex (1.5M SQF).

RETAIL SPACE DESIGN - Metepec Village Entertainment and Retail Centre – Mexico. Leading the design of a 5,000 sqf PEMB market structure (CD+CA). Lomas Verdas Mountainside Retail Centre – Mexico. Conceptual Design and Development. Leading a small team of designers to win a commission for a 150,000 SF retail center in Mexico City.

2012-2014
Kimmel Eshkolot Architects Tel-Aviv, Israel
Project Architect - 2 years

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Check-Point Computer Science Building. Tel- Aviv University, Israel. Lead Architect in charge of programmatic and feasibility studies, conceptual design and mock-up production.

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: Managed 6 projects in 3 cities from design development to construction permits. Working with clients, consultants andbuilders to produce permit and construction documentation.

GIS ANALYSIS of Multiple residential developments for potential clients, producing contextualized information including ROI projections.


PUBLICATIONS, WORKSHOPS & RESEARCH

Center for Advanced Urbanism Workshop in Georgetown, Guyana. Part on a student group selected to design a master-plan proposal for a large residential neighborhood.
2018

Publication: “The Evolution of Sustainable Methodologies in Contemporary Building Materials”. From “Sustainable Architecture - towards Holistic Approach”. Edited by Tagit Klimor. Israel 2014.
2016

Winner of The ‘Azrieli National Award’ for best graduation project Represented the Technion School of Architecture in a national competition and chosen as the 2nd place winner by the Azrieli Foundation.
2015

IDF – Israeli Defense Force – Elite combat engendering unit, EOD expert. 3 years of service as a technician, instructor and researcher.
2002-2005

Brent D. Ryan

Associate Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy.

His research examines emerging urban design paradigms, particularly in postindustrial, global cities. His most recent book is The Largest Art (2017), and his first book was Design After Decline (2012). Ryan has lectured, practiced, and written widely on urban design.

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