Zeiad Amin

Zeiad Amin is an graduate student at MIT and a member of the Digital Structures group, with a background in architecture, structural design, and computer science. He holds an M.S. in Matter Design Computation from Cornell University and a BArch from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research focuses on computational design tools that integrate structural analysis with cultural and aesthetic preferences through machine learning. He is interested in developing differentiable design environments to explore the intersections of geometry, structure, and aesthetics.

Prior to MIT, Zeiad worked at Endrestudio, where he contributed to the design of the Honor Tower in Greenville, SC, and Vortex Kaleidus at the Venice Biennale. At Cornell, he was a lead research associate on the HelioSkin Project at the Sabin Lab and was also part of the Robotic Construction Lab. Zeiad’s work also extends to art, such as Textiles, Decoded, an interactive exhibition supported by a Cornell Council of the Arts grant that used machine learning to explore how media, specifically images, encode cultural signals through historic textiles.