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Daragh Byrne is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture and Integrated Innovation Institute. His work focuses on design, experiential media systems, and process-oriented methods that emphasize human-centered exploration with emerging technologies. As part of his current role, he teaches and conducts research highlighting interests in the Internet of Things and tangible interaction design. His academic journey includes managing the NSF Funded XSEAD project at Arizona State University’s School of Arts, Media Engineering. This project facilitates a partnership with the CMU Alliance for Arts Research Universities (a2ru) and aims to expand projects to deliver new online platforms for arts-integrative scholarship. Additionally, he leads an initiative, MakeSchools.org, to catalog Making in higher education. With a diverse academic background, Byrne holds a Ph.D. from Dublin City University and has specialized knowledge in the design and evaluation of advanced interactive systems.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.