Summary
Karim Daw is an associate and engineering leader blending architecture, sustainability, and computer science with eight years of practice building cloud-native AI systems, full-stack 3D applications, and data-driven sustainability tools. He leads practice-level data and AI engineering at Gensler after directing sustainability and computational design at BIG, translating climate and carbon datasets into production-ready systems that inform design decisions. His academic work focused on graph neural networks for spatial analysis, and he brings that research mindset to practical problems like secure, performant multi-agent AI and extensible backends. A hands-on programmer and mentor, Karim balances craftsmanship and scalability—prioritizing simple, lightning-fast solutions that empower creative end users. An atypical detail: he pairs architectural studio experience and digital fabrication teaching with production software leadership, giving him rare fluency across design, research, and engineering.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at University of Bath
Bachelor of Architecture | William Downing Thesis Prize winner, Bachelor of Architecture | William Downing Thesis Prize winner at Cornell University
M.Sc Architecture Urbanism and Building Sciences | Cum Laude | Honours Architecture Engineering, M.Sc Architecture Urbanism and Building Sciences | Cum Laude | Honours Architecture Engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Arabic, French