DC I/O 2025 Conference

8 - 9 November | Virtual

Please refer to the programme below for all conference presentations.

8 NOVEMBER 2025 | Conference Day 1

Conference Opening

Time [Duration] Author. Title
  • 10:00 [0:10] Registration

  • 10:10 [0:20] Introduction and Guidance: Abel Maciel

Session 1: Design Computation Algorithms

  • 10:30 [0:20] Keynote. Oana Taut. Beyond Digital Twins: Scalable Conversational Environmental Intelligence

  • 10:50 [0:20] Presentation. Andrew Lau. AI-Driven Rapid Design and Fabrication of Functional Walking Robots from Natural Language Descriptions

  • 11:10 [0:20] Presentation. Smaro Katsangelou. An AI-Driven Framework for Coastal Flood-Prone Zone Participatory Design

  • 11:30 [0:20] Presentation. Celso Urroz. Design Toward 3D Simplexity: A Topology-Derived Interlocking Bent Rib Structure Fabrication Method Using 2D Manufacturing

  • 11:50 [0:10] Discussion.

    12:00 [1:00] Lunch Break

Session 2: Design Computation Cognitions

  • 13:00 [0:20] Keynote. Soheil Sabri. Harnessing Urban Digital Twins and 3D Geospatial Modelling to Rethink Infrastructure Design and Operations

  • 13:20 [0:10] Discussion.

  • 13:30 [0:20] Presentation. Mohammad Nyme Uddin. An Integrated BIM–ABM–SD–ANN Framework for Predicting Occupant Thermal Comfort in Climate-Resilient Urban Landscapes

  • 13:50 [0:20] Presentation. Valentina Marticorena Angela. Durational and Formational: Analog and Computational Techniques Toward an Ephemeral and Interactive Spatial Environment

  • 14:10 [0:20] Presentation. Yuto Ikeda. Learning Architecture with Reinforcement

  • 14:30 [0:10] Discussion.

  • 14:40 [0:00] Closing. Abel Maciel.

9 NOVEMBER 2025 | Conference Day 2

Day Opening

  • 10:00 [0:30] Registration.
  • 10:30 [0:10] Opening and Coordination. Abel Maciel.

Session 3: Design Computation Cultures

  • 10:40 [0:20] Keynote. Gulnaz Aksenova. Business Model Innovation of AEC Firms in the AI Era
  • 11:00 [0:10] Discussion.

  • 11:10 [0:20] Presentation. Zhiyuan Wu. Bio-Tessera: A Computational Framework for Machine Learning-Guided Bio-Material Design
  • 11:30 [0:20] Presentation. Johnny Wong. Digital Palimpsest Morphology of Informal Settlements: Multimodal Data and the Ethnographic Digital Twin
  • 11:50 [0:10] Discussion.

12:00 [1:00] Lunch Break

Session 4: Design Computation Applications

  • 13:00 [0:20] Keynote. Philip Hannabuss. Cognitive CDEs

  • 13:20 [0:10] Discussion.

  •  13:30 [0:20] Keynote. Akouvi Ahoomey. From Static Twins to Live Automated Operations in Any Browser: AI Agents for Digital Twins in the Metaverse
  • 13:50 [0:20] Presentation. Ye Ha Kim. Modelling Edge Computing Dynamics for Smart Cities: A Comparative Study between Markov Chains and Bayesian Networks in Barcelona

  • 14:10 [0:20] Presentation. Daniyar Kuzekov. A Blockchain-Enabled Universal Engine for Collaborative Document Auditing and Workflow Optimisation

  • 14:30 [0:10] Discussion.

14:40 [0:20] Closing Notes and Acknowledgements

15:00 [0:00] Ends