Biayna Bogosian, the Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology at Florida International University, will be offering an intriguing lecture at the Computational Design: NEXT 8.0 conference. Architecture, computational design, environmental design, data science, spatial computing, and media arts are among Biayna’s academic and professional interests. Through interdisciplinary research, she was able to explore the technological innovation in design, such as data-driven and citizen-centric solutions to enhance the built environment. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she studies Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice. She focuses on the function of immersive and locative media in participatory urban environmental literacy and policymaking in her dissertation. Additionally, she possesses a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she taught until 2018. She was serving on the Board of Directors of the ACADIA Organization and co-chaired the ACADIA 2021 Conference and CAAD Futures 2021 Conference.