Bailey Fernandez

Bailey Fernandez is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work primarily concerns the interaction of design computing with formal and/or symbolic reasoning methods. In particular, he is interested in drawing on methods ranging from theoretical computer science, computational cognitive science, mathematical logic,  and analytic philosophy to understand the particular properties of design creativity.  In general, the gist of this research focuses less on finding computational methods for optimization and more on the capacity that formal methods have to provide a descriptively adequate representation of design thinking. Many of these ideas are also bound up with questions regarding what design can teach us about formally captured methods for cognition which are not brain bound. He maintains auxiliary interests in the history of architecture and design computing,  the development of symbolic logics in philosophy and cognitive science, and generative methodologies in art and music. 

In addition to his academic work, Bailey is a project manager with extensive international experience. He has helped organized conferences and symposia in my areas of academic interest at the University of Southern Denmark, Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City, University of Salzburg, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, and the University of Vienna. From 2023-24, he was awarded the Fulbright FOLD Alumni Symposium Grant by Fulbright Austria, along with additional funding from Fulbright Bulgaria and Central European University, to develop and coordinate a symposium and knowledge exchange between American, Austrian, and Bulgarian NGOs working in disability activism and assistive technology. He currently sits on the Alumni Advisory Panel to the Board of Fulbright Austria.