Invited Speakers
Prof. Yuji Katagiri
Tokyo City University, Japan
Title: Brick Toy as Tangible "Architecture"
Tokyo City University, Japan
Title: Brick Toy as Tangible "Architecture"
Yuji Katagiri is an architect-theorist, Associate Professor at Tokyo City University. He earned his Ph.D. on Aldo Rossi from the University of Tokyo in 2017, which was published in 2024. He co-founded Studio Soseki-ken in 2021 and continues to study the autonomy of architecture using tangible tools such as brick toys.
Award: 4th UTokyo Jiritsu Award for Early Career Academics (2023)
University of Tokyo Biblioplaza | Katagiri Lab Website
Award: 4th UTokyo Jiritsu Award for Early Career Academics (2023)
University of Tokyo Biblioplaza | Katagiri Lab Website
Prof. Hongming Cai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Title: Intelligent Design Based on AI Agent in the Big Language Model Era
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Title: Intelligent Design Based on AI Agent in the Big Language Model Era
Hongming Cai is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is a standing director of the China Graphics Society, senior member of ACM/IEEE, and a distinguished member of the China Computer Federation. His work focuses on CAD/CG, intelligent manufacturing, and industrial software. He was a visiting professor in Germany and has published over 100 papers and a monograph on industrial software.