Mariana Popescu

Mariana Popescu is an assistant professor with a shared appointment in the Department of Architecture and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Popescu is a computational architect and structural designer with a strong interest and experience in innovative ways of approaching the fabrication process and use of materials in construction. Her area of expertise is computational and parametric design, with a focus on digital fabrication and sustainable design.

Popescu’s extensive involvement in projects related to promoting sustainability has led to a multilateral development of skills, which combine the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. She earned her doctorate at ETH Zurich. She was named a “Pioneer” on the MIT Technology Review global list of “35 innovators under 35” in 2019.