Faculty appointments

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is thrilled to welcome new faculty hires this fall, and to announce promotions, appointments and renewals of current faculty.

Niloufar Alenjery joins as Visiting Assistant Professor. She is a registered architect and educator whose work bridges the worlds of architectural practice and academic exploration. Her work delves deeply into the interplay between architecture, cultural identity and memory. 

Gloria Chang will join as Visiting Assistant Professor in the spring ‘25 semester. She is interested in humanitarian response, speculative spatiality and hybrid and fiber-based materiality.

Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng joins as Visiting Assistant Professor. His research investigates how technique, medium and technology transform the architectural design process, with a particular emphasis on digital representation in the context of artificial intelligence (AI). 

Lori Claus joins as Director for Career Development Opportunity and Special Faculty. She assists students and alumni seeking internships and employment opportunities with professional development topics such as resume writing, networking and interviewing techniques.

Neal Lucas Hitch joins as Visiting Assistant Professor. He is a designer, educator and curator whose research focuses on radical participatory design between humans, their environments, communities and technologies (not necessarily in that order). 

Maryam Karimi joins as Visiting Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on the intersections of design and social justice issues. Her studio practice encompasses architectural design, sculpture, object creation and public installations.

Yiqun Pan joins as Visiting Associate Professor. She is an expert in building performance simulation, energy efficiency and sustainable building whose research focuses on applying advanced techniques like big data analysis and machine learning to improve building performance and occupant well-being. 

T. Andrew Stone joins as 2024–26 Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professor. He is an educator, designer and artist interested in building memorable and personal experiences through making, drawing and storytelling. He seeks to create accessible architecture with an empathetic and relational framework.

Read the full announcement with full bios on our website.

Faculty promotions
Erica Cochran Hameen, Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure / Dana Cupkova, Professor.

Faculty appointments
Heather Bizon, Assistant Teaching Professor / Joshua D. Lee, Associate Teaching Professor.

Faculty renewals
Jonathan Kline, Special Faculty (Studio Professor) / Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland, Special Faculty / Nathan Sawyer, Special Faculty / Tommy CheeMou Yang, Special Faculty.