Each project represents a significant area of research and lists associated published papers.
Research Themes
Architectural Design
Autodesk @ MaRS
Autodesk @ MaRS
For the design of a new office and research space in the MaRS Innovation District...
Princeton Laboratory for Embodied Computation
Princeton Laboratory for Embodied Computation
The Laboratory for Embodied Computation is a simple but futuristic building hosting research on the...
Amphibious Envelope
Amphibious Envelope
Amphibious Envelope is an experimental building facade system that re-imagines the insulated glazing unit as...
Hy-Fi
Hy-Fi
Hy-Fi is a 13-meter-tall tower constructed from a new low-energy biological building material that offers...
Black Lake
Black Lake
Black Lake is a ten-minute song from Bjork’s new album 'Vulnicura' and the culmination of...
Building Science
Building Simulation
Building Simulation
Buildings are responsible for 48% of all Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. We aim to...
Project Dasher
Project Dasher
Project Dasher is an Autodesk research project using a BIM-based platform to provide building owners...
Digital 210 King
Digital 210 King
We are creating a high-quality Building Information Model of our offices in Toronto. Our goal...
CAD for Life Sciences
Nanodesign
Nanodesign
Design at the nanoscale. In collaboration with world-class researchers and industry experts, Project NanoDesign aims...
Genetic Constructor
Genetic Constructor
Genetic Constructor is an extensible, open source, cloud CAD tool to drive biological design and...
Molecule Viewer
Molecule Viewer
Explore the unseen world. Autodesk Research Molecule Viewer is a web-based 3D tool optimized for...
BiomeView
BiomeView
Using a mash-up of architecture, genomics, and microbial ecology Jessica Green an engineer, bio diversity...
4D Printing
4D Printing
Skylar Tibbits, an MIT Researcher, architect, designer, computer scientist and TED Senior Fellow, is working...
Project Cyborg
Project Cyborg
Project Cyborg is a cloud-based meta-platform of design tools for programming matter across domains and...
Bio Computational Evolution: The Next Generation of Software for Synthetic Biology
Bio Computational Evolution: The Next Generation of Software for Synthetic Biology
In this project, David Benjamin explored a pioneering intersection between synthetic biology, architecture, and computation...
nTinker: Design and Visualization Tool for Biological Engineering of Multi-cell Systems
nTinker: Design and Visualization Tool for Biological Engineering of Multi-cell Systems
If mathematical models of biological cells can be represented in a way that captures the...
CADnano 2.0. CAD for DNA Origami
CADnano 2.0. CAD for DNA Origami
The George Church Lab from the Wyss Institute at Harvard and Autodesk Research are co-developing...
BioweatherMap at TED Global
BioweatherMap at TED Global
With the emergence of BioweatherMaps, we will one day be able to find out more...
Clotho. Application Platform for Synthetic Biology
Clotho. Application Platform for Synthetic Biology
Clotho assists scientists and engineers in the performance of synthetic biology projects. Most importantly, Clotho...
Computational Medicine
Computational Anatomy and Biomechanics
Computational Anatomy and Biomechanics
Computational anatomy incorporates the use of geometric- and statistics-based mathematical techniques to analyze and understand...
Design and Fabrication
Bioprinting
Bioprinting
The bioprinting project has two general objectives: the development and adaptation of biological materials to...
Mesh Processing
Mesh Processing
Computer representations of geometry are at the core of most problems in digital design and...
meshmixer
meshmixer
Meshmixer is a prototype design tool based on high-resolution dynamic triangle meshes. We are exploring...
Generative Design
Project Discover
Project Discover
Project Discover is a workflow for generative design for architecture. It involves the integration of...
Bionic Partition Project
Bionic Partition Project
Developed in collaboration with Airbus , Autodesk , and APWorks , the Bionic Partition is...
Project Dreamcatcher
Project Dreamcatcher
What if a CAD system could generate thousands of design options that all meet your...
Design Variations and Optimization
Design Variations and Optimization
In recent years, new powerful analysis capabilities have been introduced in commercial software. In order...
Complex Constraint Authoring
Complex Constraint Authoring
As systems become more complex, the design and authoring process becomes more abstract. This project...
High Performance Computing
Project Saturn: Cloud-based Compute and Optimization Infrastructure
Project Saturn: Cloud-based Compute and Optimization Infrastructure
Mathematical optimization techniques often require immense computational power to perform in a timely manner, which...
General-Purpose High-Throughput Image-Processing-Ingestion Pipeline
General-Purpose High-Throughput Image-Processing-Ingestion Pipeline
We are working on a general-purpose high-throughput image-processing-ingestion pipeline, taking advantage of the high processing...
High-Performance Computing
High-Performance Computing
One of the ultimate goals is to prototype and validate novel parallel computing frameworks to...
Costas Arrays Enumeration
Costas Arrays Enumeration
Costas arrays are sets of n points placed on a nxn checkerboard, in which each...
Parallel Code Testing and Certification
Parallel Code Testing and Certification
The increasing complexity of maintaining large amounts of code and the progressive transition towards multiprocessing...
Human Computer Interaction
Motion Amplifiers
Motion Amplifiers
In our earlier work, Project Draco , our goal was to make animation as easy...
Paper Forager
Paper Forager
We present Paper Forager , a fully deployable cloud-based system which allows users to rapidly...
Chronofab
Chronofab
How can we portray time and motion in 3D printed artifacts? ChronoFab is a 3D...
Kitty
Kitty
Kitty is a sketch-based tool for authoring dynamic and interactive illustrations. Artists can sketch animated...
Draco: Dynamic Drawings
Draco: Dynamic Drawings
Project Draco aims to make animation as easy as sketching, and a powerful tool for...
Multitouch and Sensor Interaction
Multitouch and Sensor Interaction
Touch technology has taken over as the dominant form of input for most mobile devices...
Virtualization and Remote Collaboration
Virtualization and Remote Collaboration
Advances in compression and streaming technologies have enabled a new way to use compute-heavy software...
Autodesk Remote
Autodesk Remote
Autodesk Remote was a remote streaming technology that allowed users to access the software they...
Multiscale Interaction
Multiscale Interaction
This project investigates the properties and qualities of multiscale datasets in an effort to gain...
Mobile Projectors
Mobile Projectors
The recent advancement of mobile projector technologies offers exciting opportunities for how we access and...
3D Freeform Design
3D Freeform Design
3D freeform design is one of the most challenging tasks to support in a software...
3D User Interfaces
3D User Interfaces
Designing user interfaces for interacting with 3D data involves a number of factors that are...
Novel Input & Output
Novel Input & Output
The nature and quality of interaction can be dramatically affected by both the input sensing...
3D Navigation
3D Navigation
While advances in computing have empowered users to design and interact with objects in virtual...
Bimanual Input
Bimanual Input
Two handed, or bimanual, input, has the potential to allow users to perform tasks faster,...
Menu Systems
Menu Systems
A menu system often serves as the core interaction workhorse of an application. We have...
Large Displays
Large Displays
Large wall-sized displays are becoming for affordable and widespread throughout the design, education, business, and...
Multi-touch
Multi-touch
Multi-touch platforms have recently emerged into the consumer markets, and offer a rich and captivating...
Internet of Things
Gadget
Gadget
Project Gadget explores experience design for the Internet of Things. In particular, it examines new...
HIVE
HIVE
HIVE is a pavilion built in three days through a new process of human and...
Learning Complicated Systems
Innovation Workshop
Innovation Workshop
The Innovation Workshop is a set of tools and techniques to help intrapreneurs at Autodesk...
Chronicle
Chronicle
The Chronicle Research Project is exploring a new type of system that will allow users...
ToolClips
ToolClips
One of the main learnability challenges associated with complex software applications is learning to use...
CommunityCommands
CommunityCommands
Amazon recommends books to its users. Netflix recommends movies. With CommunityCommands, Autodesk will recommend command...
Software Learning
Software Learning
The Learning project aims to investigate advanced techniques for assisting users in learning complicated applications...
Simulation
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus is a unified dynamics framework based on particles with constraints. The goal of this...
Systems Design
Systems Design & Simulation
Systems Design & Simulation
While traditional programming practices have produced a wide range of relatively independent simulation methods, predictive...
Visualization
Quantified Self
Quantified Self
For the Quantified Self 2015 conference we planned and designed key components of the exhibit...
Command Usage Arc Diagrams
Command Usage Arc Diagrams
With the Customer Involvement Program (CIP) we have a database of over 60 million commands...
OrgOrgChart: The Evolution of an Organization
OrgOrgChart: The Evolution of an Organization
The OrgOrgChart ( Org anic Org anization Chart ) project looks at the evolution of...
Visualization & Visual Analytics
Visualization & Visual Analytics
Visual data representations leverage the power of human perception to process complex information, and through...