Rohit Priyadarshi Sanatani is a design researcher and PhD scholar in Design Computation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His work is supported by the Norman B. (1938) and Muriel Leventhal Fellowship, at the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Rohit’s interests lie in data-driven lines of inquiry into the subjective experiential qualities of urban environments. His recent work has focused on the creation of design assistance and evaluation tools that help designers and planners to systematically engage with such complex qualities of the public realm. He has also been associated with the MIT Senseable City Lab, where his work has revolved primarily around large-scale urban visual analytics.
Rohit’s work has been been published across multiple research platforms globally, including Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), the Architectural Science Association (ANZASCA), Computer aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (SIGraDi) and the Cognitive Science Society. He has also been invited for guest lectures and reviews at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, the Boston Architectural College, the University of Queensland, CEPT University and the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST).
Rohit graduated with a dual Master of Science in Design Computation and in Computer Science from MIT. Prior to that, he was associated as Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, and also worked on multiple masterplan development schemes across India as Project Lead with Studio Lotus, New Delhi. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from IIEST, Shibpur, and a M.Arch (Urban Design) from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
Outside of his core professional domain, Rohit takes a keen interest in the medieval Islamic Architecture in North India. He has traveled extensively across the country, visiting and writing about lesser known monuments and structures which occupy important positions in the evolution of the architecture of India. Before moving to the US, he had been regularly conducting heritage walks focused on the architecture of the Delhi Sultanate (1192 – 1526).
Rohit is a classically trained violinist and pianist and has a number of original compositions.
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