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Complex Systems Research

We help designers and researchers gain a deeper understanding of complex systems such as those found in the biological world and the built environment. Specifically, we develop tools and techniques to model, simulate, and explore human-centric natural and designed systems, with an emphasis on data collection and visualization. Our research advances the state of the art while striving for a novel multi-paradigm, multi-scale, and multi-physics platform to support collaboration among experts in a multitude of domains.

Head of Group:

Azam Khan

Overview

We help designers and researchers gain a deeper understanding of complex systems such as those found in the biological world and the built environment. Specifically, we develop tools and techniques to model, simulate, and explore human-centric natural and designed systems, with an emphasis on data collection and visualization. Our research advances the state of the art while striving for a novel multi-paradigm, multi-scale, and multi-physics platform to support collaboration among experts in a multitude of domains.

In the Human Systems Biology domain, we partner with experts in organizations, such as the Parametric Human Project, to develop novel multi-scale simulation models.

In the domain of the built environment, we partner with academia and government laboratories in Systems Design for Sustainability.

We believe that a collaborative, data-driven approach to challenges in modeling, simulation, visualization, and analysis will help us to build an ecosystem of tools and technologies that can support both hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing, creating new knowledge to advance science and human understanding.

Current Projects
Systems Design & Simulation

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Computational Anatomy and Biomechanics

Partner: University of Toronto

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Multiscale Interaction

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Visualization & Visual Analytics

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Project Dasher

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Building Simulation

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Past Projects
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3D Navigation

Partner: University of Toronto

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Digital 210 King
Digital 210 King

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Complex Constraint Authoring
Complex Constraint Authoring

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3D Freeform Design

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Group Members
  • Jacky Bibliowicz
  • Simon Breslav
  • Josh Cameron
  • Rhys Goldstein
  • Farhad Javid
  • Azam Khan
  • Hali Larsen
  • Michael Lee
  • Alexander Tessier
  • Kean Walmsley
  • Pan Zhang
Alumni Members
  • Thomas Davies
  • Torsten Hahmann
  • Mona Hosseinkhani Loorak
  • Dongwoon Lee
  • Maryam Maleki
  • James McCrae
  • Christopher Menezes
  • Jeremy Mogk
  • Reza Samavi
  • Francesca Sarzetto
  • Anton Semechko
  • Simon Van Mierlo
  • Ajanthi Vasantharoopan
  • Jian Zhao
Partnerships

University of Toronto

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    Design Loop: Calibration of a Simulation of Productive Congestion Through Real-World Data for Generative Design Frameworks

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    JOIN: an integrated platform for joint simulation of occupant-building interactions

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