Professor Dr. Narjes Abbasabadi

Biography

Narjes Abbasabadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. She leads the Sustainable Intelligence Lab, focusing her research on sustainability computation in the built environment. Her work emphasizes advancing design research efforts through developing data-driven methods and tools that leverage digital technologies to enhance performance-based, human-centered design. Abbasabadi investigates urban building energy flows, human systems, and the environmental health impacts at various scales, from individual buildings to neighborhood and city levels. Her research has appeared in premier journals such as Applied Energy, Building Environment, and Sustainable Cities and Society. She has received the ARCC Dissertation Award Honorable Mention and the Best Ph.D. Program Dissertation Award from IIT CoA, among other accolades. Before joining the University of Washington, she taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and the Illinois Institute of Technology and worked on major design research projects including low-carbon building prototypes at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Abbasabadi holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and both Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Architecture from Tehran Azad University.

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