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
Justin Berquist, Alex Tessier, Azam Khan, William O’Brien, Ramtin Attar (2017)
An Investigation of Generative Design for Heating,Ventilation, and Air-ConditioningSimAUD 2017 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
8 pages
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 DiagnosticsSimAUD 2015 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
8 pages
Stephen Fai, Katie Graham, Todd Duckworth, Nevil Wood, Ramtin Attar (2011)
Building Information Modeling and Heritage DocumentationCIPA 2011 Conference proceedings:
XXIIIrd International CIPA Symposium
8 pages
Ramtin Attar, Ebenezer Hailemariam, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan, Gord Kurtenbach (2011)
Sensor-enabled Cubicles for Occupant-centric Capture of Building Performance DataASHRAE 2011 Conference proceedings:
ASHRAE Annual Conference
8 pages
Ebenezer Hailemariam, Rhys Goldstein, Ramtin Attar, Azam Khan (2011)
Real-Time Occupancy Detection using Decision Trees with Multiple Sensor TypesSimAUD 2011 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
8 pages
Ramtin Attar, Robert Aish, Jos Stam, Duncan Brinsmead, Alex Tessier, Michael Glueck, Azam Khan (2010)
Embedded Rationality: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Form-FindingInternational Journal of Architectural Computing
December 2010, Volume 8, Number 4
pp. 399-418
Ebenezer Hailemariam, Michael Glueck, Ramtin Attar, Alex Tessier, James McCrae, Azam Khan (2010)
Toward a Unified Representation System of Performance-Related DataeSim 2010 Conference proceedings:
IBPSA-Canada eSim Conference
8 pages
Ramtin Attar, Michael Glueck, Venk Prabhu, Azam Khan (2010)
210 King Street: A Dataset for Integrated Performance AssessmentSimAUD 2010 Conference proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
4 pages
Ramtin Attar, Ebenezer Hailemariam, Michael Glueck, Alex Tessier, James McCrae, Azam Khan (2010)
BIM-based Building Performance MonitorPresentation
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
April 12, 2010
Ramtin Attar, Robert Aish, Jos Stam, Alex Tessier, Michael Glueck, Azam Khan, Duncan Brinsmead (2009)
Physics-based Generative DesignCAAD Futures 2009 Conference proceedings:
CAAD Futures Foundation
14 pages
Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Ramtin Attar (2009)
A Survey of Software Learnability: Metrics, Methodologies and GuidelinesCHI 2009 Conference proceedings:
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
pp. 649-658
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 OverlayCHI 2009 Conference proceedings:
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
pp. 143-152
Projects
Contact
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Toronto, ON M5A 1J7
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