麻省理工学院建筑与规划学院（SA+P）的七位教职员工因其杰出贡献，将于7月1日生效获得晋升。此次晋升涵盖建筑系三位教职员工，城市研究与规划系三位教职员工，以及媒体艺术与科学项目的一位教职员工。学院院长Hashim Sarkis表示，这些教职员工无论是在建筑、城市规划、计算机科学还是纳米技术领域，都代表了学院最优秀的水平，体现了学院在拓宽研究领域和改善人与环境关系的使命方面的卓越成就。

## 建筑系晋升情况： * **Marcelo Coelho** 晋升为实践副教授，他是设计智能实验室主任，专注于设计、人工智能和制造领域中人与机器智能的交叉研究，其作品曾获Prix Ars Electronica奖和Fast Company创新设计奖。他通过实验性方法重塑创意过程，改变我们对智能系统的构想和互动方式，并教授融合工业设计、用户体验和人工智能的课程。

## 建筑系晋升情况（续）： * **Holly Samuelson** 晋升为无终身教职副教授，她在建筑技术领域是公认的专家，发表了40多篇同行评审论文，并获得《能源与建筑》期刊的最佳论文奖，其研究成果曾被《华盛顿邮报》、《波士顿环球报》、BBC和《华尔街日报》等媒体报道。

## 建筑系晋升情况（续）： * **Rafi Segal** 晋升为正教授，他是一位获奖设计师，作品横跨建筑和城市尺度，包括在鄂尔多斯100系列中的Villa 003、乌干达Kitgum和平博物馆、以色列Ashdod艺术博物馆，以及以色列国家图书馆设计方案。他目前正规划一个以色列集体农场的新社区，并策划关于Alfred Neumann 20世纪60年代建筑的首个展览。

## 城市研究与规划系晋升情况： * **Carlo Ratti** 被重新任命为实践教授，他同时也是Senseable City Lab主任和Carlo Ratti Associati国际设计事务所的创始合伙人。他已发表500多篇论文并拥有多项专利，作品曾在威尼斯双年展、纽约现代艺术博物馆等全球知名场所展出，其“数字水亭”和“哥本哈根轮”曾被《时代》杂志评为年度最佳发明。他还是2025年威尼斯双年展第19届国际建筑展的策展人。

## 城市研究与规划系晋升情况（续）： * **Albert Saiz** 晋升为正教授，他担任MIT城市经济学实验室主任，该实验室致力于房地产经济学、城市经济学、住房市场、地方公共财政、分区法规、全球房地产以及影响全球城市和房地产发展的趋势研究。他还是费城联邦储备银行的访问学者、劳动分析研究所的研究员，并担任《住房经济学杂志》的编辑。

## 城市研究与规划系晋升情况（续）： * **Delia Wendel** 晋升为无终身教职副教授，她的研究关注冲突和灾难后的社区修复形式、非洲城市主义以及空间政治。她的跨学科研究融合了城市研究、批判性和平研究、建筑史、文化地理学和人类学。在MIT DUSP，她领导“规划促和平”批判性集体，并负责由梅隆基金会和MIT艺术、科学与技术中心资助的“修复记忆地图集”研究与展览项目，同时担任该系批判性城市研究与规划期刊《Projections》的执行编辑。

## 媒体艺术与科学项目晋升情况： * **Deblina Sarkar** 晋升为无终身教职副教授，她是MIT媒体实验室纳米-赛博格生物追踪实验室主任，将纳米电子学、物理学和生物学相结合，创造了从超薄量子晶体管到首个能在活细胞内运行的天线等突破性技术。她的跨学科工作获得了多项重要荣誉，包括美国国立卫生研究院院长新创新者奖和IEEE纳米技术早期职业奖。

Seven faculty in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) have been honored for their contributions through promotions, effective July 1. Three faculty promotions are in the Department of Architecture; three are in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; and one is in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences.

“Whether architects, urbanists, computer scientists, or nanotechnologists, they represent our school at its best, in its breadth of inquiry and mission to improve the relationship between human beings and their environments,” says SA+P Dean Hashim Sarkis.

Department of Architecture

Marcelo Coelho has been promoted to associate professor of the practice. Coelho is the director of the Design Intelligence Lab, which explores the intersection of human and machine intelligence across design, AI, and fabrication. His work ranges from light-based installations to physical computing. Recognition for his work includes two Prix Ars Electronica awards and Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award. Coelho’s experimental approach redefines creative processes, transforming how we imagine and interact with intelligent systems. Coelho teaches courses that bring together industrial design, user experience, and artificial intelligence.

Holly Samuelson has been promoted to associate professor without tenure. Samuelson has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers, winning a Best Paper award from the journal Energy and Building. As a recognized expert in architectural technology, she has been featured in media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the BBC, and The Wall Street Journal.

Rafi Segal has been promoted to full professor. An award-winning designer, Segal works across architectural and urban scales, with projects ranging from Villa 003 in the ORDOS 100 series to the Kitgum Peace Museum in Uganda, the Ashdod Museum of Art in Israel, and the winning design proposal for the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. His current work includes planning a new communal neighborhood for an Israeli kibbutz and curating the first exhibition on Alfred Neumann’s 1960s architecture.

Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)

Carlo Ratti has been reappointed as professor of the practice. Ratti is the director of the Senseable City Lab and a founding partner of the international design office Carlo Ratti Associati. He has co-authored over 500 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited globally, including at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Design Museum in Barcelona. Two of his projects, the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel, were named among TIME Magazine’s “Best Inventions of the Year.” He is the curator of the 2025 Venice Biennale’s 19th International Architecture Exhibition.

Albert Saiz has been promoted to full professor. Saiz serves as the director of MIT’s Urban Economics Lab, which conducts research on real estate economics, urban economics, housing markets, local public finance, zoning regulations, global real estate, and demographic trends affecting urban and real estate development worldwide. He also contributes to the broader research community as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, a research fellow at the Institute for the Analysis of Labor, and editor for the Journal of Housing Economics.

Delia Wendel has been promoted to associate professor without tenure. Wendel’s research engages three main areas: forms of community repair after conflict and disaster, African urbanism, and spatial politics. Her interdisciplinary work draws together urban studies, critical peace studies, architectural history, cultural geography, and anthropology. At MIT DUSP, she leads the Planning for Peace critical collective and oversees the Mellon Foundation and the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology-funded research and exhibition project, Memory Atlas for Repair. She also serves as the managing editor of Projections, the department’s annual peer-reviewed journal on critical issues in urban studies and planning.

Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Deblina Sarkar has been promoted to associate professor without tenure. As the director of the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek Lab at the MIT Media Lab, she merges nanoelectronics, physics, and biology to create groundbreaking technologies, from ultra-thin quantum transistors to the first antenna that operates inside living cells. Her interdisciplinary work has earned her major honors, including the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award and the IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology.