Wei Yan

Dr. Wei Yan, William M. Peña Professor in Information Management, Director of PhD & MS Research Programs in the Department of Architecture, and Chair of Research Council in the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, with expertise in Computational Methods in Architecture, Augmented Reality, AI, Building Information Modeling, Parametric Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization. He has led research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Autodesk, Inc., etc. and co-led NSF, DOE, ASHRAE, etc. projects. He received the Best Paper Prize in Design Computing and Cognition 2006 and the Best Paper Awards in Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies / HCI International 2022 and 2024, as well as a Spetial Mention in the International Conference ReUSO 2024 on Documentation, restoration, and sustainable regeneration of the built heritage. He was named a Presidential Impact Fellow in 2017 and a recipient of the Student Government Association Open Educator Award in 2019, both at Texas A&M. Yan was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Architecture and M.S. in Computer Science), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Nachdiplomstudium – Postgraduate Studies in Computer-Aided Architectural Design), and Tianjin University (M.E. in Architectural Technology & Science and B.E. in Architecture). In 2012, he was a Guest Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. In 2007, he received NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant.

Dr. Yan’s areas of academic interest include Computational Methods in Architecture, Augmented Reality, AI, Parametric Modeling, Building Information Modeling, and Building Science.