Emilie El Chidiac | Design Technologist

Master in Advanced Computational Design for Architecture (MaCAD) II · IAAC, Barcelona · Sep 2025 - Dec 2026

MaCAD Awards 2026 winner. IAAC Women in Tech scholarship.

• › Sensi, an agentic LLM copilot scoring a floor plan across six senses, calibrated to a person. Project lead, team of four.
• › The Lungs, the deployed app that ran the studio: a hyperbuilding designed to filter a city's air. Data team of three.
• › lEgoarCh, a pipeline turning a text prompt into brick sets verified buildable against the real catalog.
• › Methods: agent orchestration, evals, generative pipelines, Rhino Compute, machine learning applied in teams.

Bachelor of Architecture (NAAB & NASAD accredited) · Lebanese American University, Byblos

Dean's Distinction List. Honor scholarship all consecutive terms.

• › The Homage, bachelor thesis: an adaptive reuse of Oscar Niemeyer's unfinished Rachid Karami Fair in Tripoli.
• › Licensed architect, Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut, issued Mar 2024.

Design Technologist · Dynamic Solution Co., Kuwait · Aug 2024 - Present

• › Drive parametric design and generative design for exhibitions and brand experiences: Rhino, Grasshopper, Kangaroo.
• › Direct generative AI from text to image and text to deck, and judge which outputs are worth keeping.
• › Prototype web and VR experiences for clients, designed human-centered and detailed for disassembly.
• › Prepare and present concept and pitch for sports, F&B and automotive brands. Interdisciplinary teams.

Design Architect · SOMA, Dubai | Beirut · Aug 2023 - Jul 2024

• › Verve City Walk, District O, Enara, Saria: led facade and massing studies on four towers in Rhino and Grasshopper.
• › Delivered those studies into the Revit BIM set at LOD 300: floorplans, interiors, masterplan documentation.

Design Architect · Self-employed · Jan 2022 - Present

• › Rings of Mars: Ring 4000, a Marsception entry with Charles Abi Chahine: SubD modeling and generative AI.
• › Pen Table, this portfolio's design system: one token set governing the site, a printed book and the share cards.
• › Ongoing independent research in computational design and emerging technologies.

Architectural Designer · Jemma Chidiac Architects, Beirut · Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

• › The Encounter, an Anfeh cemetery in planted tomb terraces: concept support, landscape and tomb details. Finalist.
• › Falcon Square, an Al Khobar monument: takeoff lines mirrored into a steel falcon, led from the first sketch.

Research Assistant · Lebanese American University XR Lab, Byblos · Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

• › Modeled and animated chemical reactions for AR learning, and researched VR integration in education.