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Tiffany Cheng is a Taiwanese American designer and builder, serving as an Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s Department of Design Tech. Her work focuses on performance potential in natural biobased materials and smarter sustainable forms. Cheng’s doctoral research, which she defended in 2024, concentrated on developing 4D-printing processes for biobased materials and bioinspired behaviors applicable to various domains, such as self-adjusting wearables, self-forming structures, and self-regulating facades. As the Research Group Leader at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), she led the Material Programming group that investigated integrative computational fabrication methods for adaptive furniture and building systems. Cheng has also practiced with Studio Fernando Vazquez, designing socially oriented projects, including bike facilities and neighborhood recreation centers in the United States and Japan, and worked with MaP+S Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, researching material-driven manufacturing strategies for bespoke carbon-fiber building components.
Department of Architecture