麻省理工学院（MIT）建筑与规划学院（SA+P）迎来四位新晋教职人员，为学院注入了新的创造力、知识和学术深度。新教授们在媒体艺术与科学、计算建筑、结构设计以及建筑技术等多个跨学科领域拥有丰富的经验和前沿的研究。他们的加入将极大地增强学院在人工智能与人类互动、可持续设计、数字制造以及建筑对环境和人类健康影响等方面的研究与教学实力，为未来的建筑和城市规划领域带来新的视角和发展。

👨‍🏫 **Karrie G. Karahalios** 加入MIT媒体实验室，担任媒体艺术与科学全职教授。她是一位在社交媒体和社会交流领域具有开创性贡献的学者，其研究融合了计算、人工智能、人类学、社会学等多个学科，关注算法如何塑造我们的世界，并获得了多项国家级奖项，包括美国国家科学基金会CAREER奖。

💡 **Pat Pataranutaporn** 同样加入MIT媒体实验室，担任媒体艺术与科学助理教授。他是一位富有远见的科技专家、科学家和设计师，专注于人类与人工智能的交互前沿，致力于开发能够促进人类福祉的AI系统。他的研究重点在于个性化AI系统如何增强人类的学习、决策和自我发展能力，并将联合指导“AI赋能人类进步”项目。

🏗️ **Mariana Popescu** 加入建筑系，担任助理教授。她是一位计算建筑师和结构设计师，在建筑材料的创新应用和建造工艺方面拥有深厚经验。她的专长是计算和参数化设计，尤其关注数字制造和可持续设计，将建筑、工程、计算设计和数字制造融为一体，曾被《麻省理工科技评论》评为“35位35岁以下创新者”之一。

🌍 **Holly Samuelson** 加入建筑系，担任建筑技术方向副教授。她的教学和研究聚焦于对人类和环境健康产生影响的建筑设计问题。她利用先进的建筑模拟技术，研究温室气体排放、热量脆弱性以及室内环境质量，并考虑建筑在不断变化的电力系统中的未来。她的研究成果曾获得“能源与建筑”期刊的最佳论文奖，并被《华盛顿邮报》等多家知名媒体报道。

Four new faculty members join the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) this fall, offering the MIT community creativity, knowledge, and scholarship in multidisciplinary roles.

“These individuals add considerable strength and depth to our faculty,” says Hashim Sarkis, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. “We are excited for the academic vigor they bring to research and teaching.”

Karrie G. Karahalios ’94, MEng ’95, SM ’97, PhD ’04 joins the MIT Media Lab as a full professor of media arts and sciences. Karahalios is a pioneer in the exploration of social media and of how people communicate in environments that are increasingly mediated by algorithms that, as she has written, “shape the world around us.” Her work combines computing, systems, artificial intelligence, anthropology, sociology, psychology, game theory, design, and infrastructure studies. Karahalios’ work has received numerous honors including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, SIGMOD Best Paper Award, and recognition as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Pat Pataranutaporn SM ’18, PhD ’20 joins the MIT Media Lab as an assistant professor of media arts and sciences. A visionary technologist, scientist, and designer, Pataranutaporn explores the frontier of human-AI interaction, inventing and investigating AI systems that support human thriving. His research focuses on how personalized AI systems can amplify human cognition, from learning and decision-making to self-development, reflection, and well-being. Pataranutaporn will co-direct the Advancing Humans with AI Program.

Mariana Popescu joins the Department of Architecture as an assistant professor. Popescu is a computational architect and structural designer with a strong interest and experience in innovative ways of approaching the fabrication process and use of materials in construction. Her area of expertise is computational and parametric design, with a focus on digital fabrication and sustainable design. Her extensive involvement in projects related to promoting sustainability has led to a multilateral development of skills, which combine the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. Popescu earned her doctorate at ETH Zurich. She was named a “Pioneer” on the MIT Technology Review global list of “35 innovators under 35” in 2019.

Holly Samuelson joins the Department of Architecture as an associate professor in the Building Technology Program at MIT, teaching architectural technology courses. Her teaching and research focus on issues of building design that impact human and environmental health. Her current projects harness advanced building simulation to investigate issues of greenhouse gas emissions, heat vulnerability, and indoor environmental quality while considering the future of buildings in a changing electricity grid. 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 news outlets including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the BBC, and The Wall Street Journal. Samuelson earned her doctor of design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.