Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Architecture
Co-Director, Design Machine Group

208 Gould, Architecture Dept. (Office: Arch Hall 043)
College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Washington, Box 355720
Seattle, WA 98195-5720

Email: ellendo@u.washington.edu
Tel: 206.616.2816, Fax: 206.616.4992

Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an assistant professor in the University of Washington's Department of Architecture with an adjunct appointment at the Landscape Architecture. She received a Bachelor degree of architecture (Honors) from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan, with a minor in Urban Planning, a Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in design computing from Georgia Tech, with a minor in cognitive science. Her research work focuses on the development of computer aided design tools to support freehand drawing as an interface to knowledge based tools. She has conducted empirical studies of design drawing and constructed computer software to integrate knowledge based applications with freehand drawing. She has also worked in the areas of computer based visual analysis tools.

Her papers have appeared in peer-reviewed international conferences on computer-aided design in architecture and civil engineering. She has taught computer animation, multi-media authoring, digital design media, graphics programming, modeling and rendering with computers, and introduction to computing in architecture. She is a member of ACM, IEEE, ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) and the AIA. She is currently an officer for ACADIA and on the executive board of Space.City: Seattle's art and architecture forum.

She currently co-directs a design computing research lab called the Design Machine Group where faculty and students explore new modalities of communication, collaboration, and coordination, physical and virtual worlds, computing environments for design that push the current boundaries of Computer Aided Design.