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Ramtin Attar

Head of Design & Social Impact
  • Location:
    Toronto
  • Group:
    Design & Social Impact
  • Email:
    ramtin.attar@autodesk.com
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Biography

Ramtin received his Masters of Architecture with a focus on digital media, architectural design, history and philosophy. He is the recipient of various awards including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medal, Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture's award of distinction and Canadian Architect's Art of CAD award.

Ramtin has joined Autodesk Research with an extensive experience in design research, practice and education. Ramtin has led and worked on various high profile architectural design projects and winning design competition entries. In addition to his role as a research scientist at Autodesk Research, Ramtin also works closely with researchers outside of Autodesk to develop strategic partnership and projects. He is currently participating in a number of funded research projects involving academia, government and industry.

Ramtin has taught and lectured on digital media and design at four Canadian Universities. He currently holds an honorary Research Professorship from the school of architecture at Carleton University where is deeply invested in a number of projects that deal with community revitalization, sustainability, and life-cycle assessment of built environment. He is also a founding member of SimAUD conference; a newly established conference on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.

Recently Ramtin has been selected as a DiverseCity Fellow: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project funded in part by the government of Ontario. As a passionate city-builder, Ramtin has joined a diverse cross-section of rising leaders from business, government, and community organizations who will work together to strengthen the economic and social prosperity of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Ramtin is also the founder of Imagine My City; a non-profit organization that he is working to grow by helping important regional issues through collective leadership coupled with tools of imagination.

12 publications
An Investigation of Generative Design for Heating,Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning

Justin Berquist, Alex Tessier, Azam Khan, William O’Brien, Ramtin Attar (2017)

An Investigation of Generative Design for Heating,Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning
SimAUD 2017 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
8 pages
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Digital Campus Innovation Project: Integration of Building Information Modelling with Building Performance Simulation and Building Diagnostics

Zixiao Shi, Aly Abdelalim, William O’Brien, Ramtin Attar, Peter Akiki, Katie Graham, Barbara Van Waarden, Stephen Fai, Alex Tessier, Azam Khan (2015)

Digital Campus Innovation Project: Integration of Building Information Modelling with Building Performance Simulation and Building Diagnostics
SimAUD 2015 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
8 pages
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Building Information Modeling and Heritage Documentation

Stephen Fai, Katie Graham, Todd Duckworth, Nevil Wood, Ramtin Attar (2011)

Building Information Modeling and Heritage Documentation
CIPA 2011 Conference proceedings:
XXIIIrd International CIPA Symposium
8 pages
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Sensor-enabled Cubicles for Occupant-centric Capture of Building Performance Data

Ramtin Attar, Ebenezer Hailemariam, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan, Gord Kurtenbach (2011)

Sensor-enabled Cubicles for Occupant-centric Capture of Building Performance Data
ASHRAE 2011 Conference proceedings:
ASHRAE Annual Conference
8 pages
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Real-Time Occupancy Detection using Decision Trees with Multiple Sensor Types

Ebenezer Hailemariam, Rhys Goldstein, Ramtin Attar, Azam Khan (2011)

Real-Time Occupancy Detection using Decision Trees with Multiple Sensor Types
SimAUD 2011 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
8 pages
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Embedded Rationality: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Form-Finding

Ramtin Attar, Robert Aish, Jos Stam, Duncan Brinsmead, Alex Tessier, Michael Glueck, Azam Khan (2010)

Embedded Rationality: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Form-Finding
International Journal of Architectural Computing
December 2010, Volume 8, Number 4
pp. 399-418
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Toward a Unified Representation System of Performance-Related Data

Ebenezer Hailemariam, Michael Glueck, Ramtin Attar, Alex Tessier, James McCrae, Azam Khan (2010)

Toward a Unified Representation System of Performance-Related Data
eSim 2010 Conference proceedings:
IBPSA-Canada eSim Conference
8 pages
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210 King Street: A Dataset for Integrated Performance Assessment

Ramtin Attar, Michael Glueck, Venk Prabhu, Azam Khan (2010)

210 King Street: A Dataset for Integrated Performance Assessment
SimAUD 2010 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
4 pages
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BIM-based Building Performance Monitor

Ramtin Attar, Ebenezer Hailemariam, Michael Glueck, Alex Tessier, James McCrae, Azam Khan (2010)

BIM-based Building Performance Monitor
Presentation
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
April 12, 2010
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Physics-based Generative Design

Ramtin Attar, Robert Aish, Jos Stam, Alex Tessier, Michael Glueck, Azam Khan, Duncan Brinsmead (2009)

Physics-based Generative Design
CAAD Futures 2009 Conference proceedings:
CAAD Futures Foundation
14 pages
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A Survey of Software Learnability: Metrics, Methodologies and Guidelines

Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Ramtin Attar (2009)

A Survey of Software Learnability: Metrics, Methodologies and Guidelines
CHI 2009 Conference proceedings:
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
pp. 649-658
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PenLight: Combining a Mobile Projector and a Digital Pen for Dynamic Visual Overlay

Hyunyoung Song, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Azam Khan, Ramtin Attar, Gord Kurtenbach, François Guimbretière (2009)

PenLight: Combining a Mobile Projector and a Digital Pen for Dynamic Visual Overlay
CHI 2009 Conference proceedings:
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
pp. 143-152
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