Amira Abdel-Rahman

Amira Abdel-Rahman earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms, where she developed inverse-design workflows powered by physics-informed artificial intelligence to advance the design and fabrication of large-scale material robot systems. She holds a Master in Design Studies (MDes) degree with a concentration in Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a bachelor's degree from the American University in Cairo.

She is currently Head of Technical Product Design at MorphoAI, where she is a founding team member developing next-generation, AI-enabled CAD tools for robotics and manufacturing. Her professional experience includes positions at NVIDIA, on the Simulation Technology Team, and at Autodesk, in the Generative Design Group, where she contributed to research at the intersection of computational design, artificial intelligence, and simulation. Abdel-Rahman will begin a joint appointment in the multicollege department of Design Tech and Cornell Engineering's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in July 2026.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Architectural technology
  • Structures in architecture
  • Sustainability
  • Robotics
  • Computational design
  • Programmable matter
  • Swarm robotics
  • Metamaterial
  • Material programming

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Publications (Selected)

  • Abdel-Rahman, Amira, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jenett, Miana Smith, and Neil Gershenfeld. "Self-replicating hierarchical modular robotic swarms." Nature Communications Engineering 1, No. 1 (2022): 35.
  • Jenett, Benjamin, Amira Abdel-Rahman, Kenneth Cheung, and Neil Gershenfeld. "Material–robot system for assembly of discrete cellular structures." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4, No. 4 (2019): 4019–4026.

Selected Work

  • A redering of geometrical structures pilled up.

    Self-Replicating Hierarchical Modular Robotic Swarms rendering (2022). image / Amira Abdel-Rahman

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