Alumni News: Elif Ensari Sucuoğlu is appointed as a research scholar at NYU

Our alumni Elif Ensari Sucuoğlu is appointed as a research scholar at NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management to conduct research about the management of urban rail systems.

Elif received her B.Arch from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara and her M.Arch from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. She has taught studios and design computing courses at Istanbul Bilgi and Kadir Has Universities. She earned her Ph.D. in Architectural Design Computing at Istanbul Technical University and the University of Lisbon in 2020 focusing on automated methods for measuring urban walkability. She is also the co-founder of iyiofis (arch.iyiofis.com) and Bits’n Bricks (bitsnbricks.com) where she actively contributes to projects supporting urban design through location-based data mining.

Publications:

Ensari, E. & Özkar, M (2018). Shape computations with NURB curves. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing 1–13.

Ensari, E. & Kobaş, B (2018). Web scraping and mapping urban data to support urban design decisions. Itu A|Z.

Conference Papers:

Ensari, E., Kobaş, B., & Sucuoglu, C. (2017). Computational Decision Support for an Airport Complex Roof Design. In Future Trajectories of Computation in Design – Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on CAAD Futures, Istanbul Technical University. (pp. 137–149). Istanbul.

Ensari, E. (2016). Measuring Methods for Urban Design and A Framework for a Design Support Tool. In 10th National Symposium on Computational Design, Bilgi University. (pp. 176–191). Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Sucuoglu, G., Ensari, E., Breivik, H., & Sucuoglu, C. (2016). The challenge of conflict-affected cities: Building peace through architecture and urban design. In ISA Annual Conference. Atlanta: International Studies Association (ISA).

Ensari, E. (2016). Simulating Visibility in Small Public Spaces. In 2016 Design Communication European Conference. (pp. 569–576). Istanbul.