Marcelo Coelho
Director Of The Design Intelligence Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMarcelo Coelho is a design and research leader who directs MIT’s Design Intelligence Lab and serves as Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Architecture, combining 11+ years of practice with deep academic rigor. He builds products, installations, and systems that explore new collaborations between human and machine intelligence, from grain-of-sand scale objects to stadium-sized experiences. His work bridges industrial and interaction design, computation, and AI, and has been showcased globally—from Times Square and Ars Electronica to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Ceremonies—and is embedded in billions of commercial products. A two-time Prix Ars Electronica winner with awards from Design Miami, Red Dot, and Fast Company, he pairs artistic experimentation with product-grade execution, previously leading design at Formlabs and co-founding hardware ventures. Trained with a PhD from the MIT Media Lab and a background spanning computation arts to cinema, he often foregrounds embodied, material interactions that reveal unexpected human-centric uses of emerging technologies. Based in Cambridge, he runs a studio and advises startups, continuously translating speculative research into tangible, widely adopted artifacts.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Media Arts and Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBFA, Computation Arts, BFA, Computation Arts at Concordia UniversityBA, Cinema and Video, BA, Cinema and Video at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
French, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
interaction8
parse-platform6
design-patterns6
google-chrome-extension6
javascript6
jquery6
backbonejs6
architecture6
ascii6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marcelocoelho/4.031
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
4.031 Design Studio: Objects and Interaction - MIT Department of Architecture
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years
interactiondepartmentmitdesign-patternsarchitecture
marcelocoelho/LLO
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Large Language Objects
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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