Pirouz Nourian
Assistant Professor Of Digital Design & Urban Systems (Tenured) at University of Twente
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPirouz Nourian is a tenured Assistant Professor of Digital Design & Urban Systems with 11 years of experience bridging computational design, graph theory, and urban analytics to rethink multi-scalar spatial systems. He applies topology, geometry, and network-based spatial reasoning to create adaptable architectural and urban frameworks informed by rigorous formal methods and structured experiments. His work uniquely pairs generative design with playable design instruments and serious games that probe configurational possibilities and collective agency. Prior roles at TU Delft and The Why Factory reflect deep teaching and research in computational modeling, digital twinning, and 3D GIS, alongside applied smart-city projects. Based in The Hague, he blends academic scholarship—anchored by a PhD in Computational Design—with hands-on R&D and studio leadership. Less obvious: he often treats game-like interfaces as research platforms, using play to surface emergent urban behaviors that formal analysis alone can miss.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering Major in Control Systems Engineering, B.Sc. Electrical Engineering Major in Control Systems Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyMaster of Architecture - MArch Architecture, Master of Architecture - MArch Architecture at Iran's University of ArtDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Design, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Design at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (47)
unity3d10
nuget10
resampling10
ffmpeg9
image-processing9
gaussian-mixture-models9
statistics9
generative9
computer-vision9
visual-studio8
machine-learning8
topology8
topological-data-analysis8
csharp8
draw7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Pirouz-Nourian/Topological_Rasterization
Aug 2014 - Mar 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 6 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Pirouz-Nourian/TUD_RasterWorks_V_0.1
Apr 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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