Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is the Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. She is a computational design scholar, architect, artist and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab. She investigates traditional and digital practices and their intersections with society. Using interdisciplinary approaches, she builds new frameworks, methodologies and tools to explore social, cultural and political aspects of computation and emerging technologies for new reconfigurations of practice, pedagogy and publics. Her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, and ideas2innovation (i2i), among others. She is a recipient of the DigitalFUTURES Young Award for exceptional research and scholarship in the field of critical computational design, and gave a TEDx Talk titled, “The Power of Making: Craft, Computation, and Carnival.” Vernelle holds a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT, a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Trinidad & Tobago. Vernelle has held positions at Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Stuttgart, the University of Florida, Penn State University, MIT and the Singapore University of Technology & Design, and has practiced as an architect in the U.S., India and Trinidad & Tobago. She is currently a board member of The Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

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January 30, 2025: Assistant Professor Vernelle A. A. Noel delivers a talk on her new co-edited book, “Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment,” at The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO For Creative Inquiry.

February 6, 2025: Assistant Professor Vernelle A. A. Noel participates on the TAD 8:2 Coding Panel with Peggy Deamer, Anna-Maria Meister, Bernard Geoghegan, Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless, and the Editorial Board Winifred Elysse Newman and Theodora Vardouli in a lively conversation on the critical and generative dimensions of coding for architecture and design.

February 5, 2025: Assistant Professor Vernelle A. A. Noel and Special Faculty Tommy CheeMou Yang receive 19 submissions for their 4S 2025 panel on “Embodied Knowledge(s), Technological Distancing, and Experience.”