Nastaran Shahmansouri
Principal Research Scientist
Americas
Biography
Nastaran is a Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk in Toronto, Canada, where she leads projects to find innovative and smart ways of facilitating human-centered optimal design. She helps decision-makers find better designs in less time by providing them with predictive tools for optimizing complex designs with competing design criteria and constraints. Her background in optimization, artificial intelligence, and computational sciences empowers her with a wide vision on the scopes of designs and helps her see the possibilities to translate solutions between different disciplines. She has published her work in credible journals and at conferences, and has been nominated for and won several industrial awards.
Publications (5)
2023
Sustainability through Optimal Design of Buildings for Natural Ventilation using Updated Comfort and Occupancy Models
The benefits of incorporating natural ventilation simulation into a…
2023
Leveraging Graph Neural Networks for Graph Regression and Effective Enumeration Reduction
Graph-based framework represents aspects of optimal thermal management…
2023
Multi-split configuration design for fluid-based thermal management systems
This work introduces a framework for automated exploration of optimal…
Projects
2022
Systems Design and Simulation
Predictive models of complex systems will require a more scalable,…
2022
Building Simulation
With simulation results in hand, an architect can better predict the…
2018
Autodesk @ MaRS
Using generative design in architecture to work around work style,…
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