Associate Professor, Kent Campus, College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Ebrahim Poustinchi is an associate professor in the College of Architecture & Environmental Design. Poustinchi has brought national and international attention to Kent State University through his work and accomplishments. Poustinchiās work focuses on world-building, user interface, user experience and cyber-physical reality, all of which extend and challenge the traditional boundaries of architecture. His 2021 curated exhibition āOne Object at a Timeā at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles garnered national and international attention in the areas of human-computer and human-robotic interfaces and also received recognition in the publications āARCHINECTā and āThe Architectās Newspaper.ā He has also co-edited the book āA Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of Physical-Virtual Continuumā by Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press. Along with these accomplishments, Poustinchi continues to rise in this area through his leadership in the international global DigitalFUTURES program, an assemblage of international thought leaders in artificial intelligence and cyber-physical reality. Poustinchiās experience and expertise make him a sought-after lecturer and guest critic at leading architecture schools when addressing the leveraging of new technologies in architecture like augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed-reality, artificial intelligence and human-computer interface.