Associate Professor, Kent Campus, College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Ebrahim Poustinchi is an associate professor in the College of Architecture & Environmental Design. Poustinchi has brought national and international attention to Kent State University through his work and accomplishments. Poustinchi’s work focuses on world-building, user interface, user experience and cyber-physical reality, all of which extend and challenge the traditional boundaries of architecture. His 2021 curated exhibition “One Object at a Time” at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles garnered national and international attention in the areas of human-computer and human-robotic interfaces and also received recognition in the publications “ARCHINECT” and “The Architect’s Newspaper.” He has also co-edited the book “A Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of Physical-Virtual Continuum” by Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press. Along with these accomplishments, Poustinchi continues to rise in this area through his leadership in the international global DigitalFUTURES program, an assemblage of international thought leaders in artificial intelligence and cyber-physical reality. Poustinchi’s experience and expertise make him a sought-after lecturer and guest critic at leading architecture schools when addressing the leveraging of new technologies in architecture like augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed-reality, artificial intelligence and human-computer interface.