Summary
Yijiang Huang is an SNSF Ambizione Junior Group Leader and roboticist with a decade of experience at the intersection of architecture, computation, and construction automation. Trained at MIT (Ph.D. candidate in Building Technology) and USTC (Computational and Applied Mathematics), he designs intelligent robot systems to simulate, quantify, and augment the processes that turn design concepts into built reality. His work progresses from hands-on robotic fabrication to algorithmic modeling, reflecting roles from developer at Archi-Solution Workshop to postdoc and now group leader at ETH Zürich. Yijiang’s research blends rigorous computational methods with practical fabrication experiments, enabling measurable insights into how design decisions propagate through construction workflows. Based in Switzerland, he advances robotic intelligence for design and construction while maintaining a rare dual fluency in architectural thinking and mathematical modeling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Architecture: Building Technology, Ph.D., Architecture: Building Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 3.5/4.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 3.5/4.3 at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese