Dimitris Papanikolaou, DDes, is an architect-engineer with a research focus on the impact of information and communication technology on the perception, use and management of architectural and urban space. His research combines analog and digital media to design and develop systems that enable people to connect through the built environment and analyzes how people interact through these systems through computational and empirical methods. His broad research interests include History and Information Science, Human-Computer Coexistence, Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Science, Data, and Information Visualization. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architectural Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and has been an Assistant Professor of Computational Design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) with a joint appointment between the School of Architecture and the Department of Software Information Systems. He is also the founding director of the Urban Synergetics Lab, an interdisciplinary research laboratory between the fields of Architecture, Art, Information Technology and Computing, with the aim of designing, analyzing and evaluating cyber-social systems in the architectural and urban space. The research of Dr. Papanikolaou has presented and published at leading conferences, scientific journals, and book chapters and has received honors such as the international Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award, Harvard’s Deans’ Design Challenge, and the Knight Foundation Celebrate Charlotte Arts. He has taught at the universities of Patras, North Carolina, New York (NYU), Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has worked in research at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond and at the MIT Media Lab (Smart Cities and Changing Places groups). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal TAD (Technology | Architecture + Design) and has been a member of the Editorial Board of IJAC (International Journal of Architectural Computing) and co-organizer of the SimAUD (Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design) international conference in 2019. He is holder of a PhD (DDes) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, MSc in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and SMArchS in Design Computation from the MIT Department of Architecture, and an Engineering Architect diploma from the National Technical University of Athens.