Ezra Systems Seminar: Tiffany Cheng (Cornell)

Bio: Tiffany Cheng is a Taiwanese American designer, builder, and Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s Department of Design Tech. Her work examines the performance potential of natural and biobased materials for smarter and more sustainable forms of making. Cheng’s doctoral research focused on developing 4D-printing processes to program biobased materials with bioinspired behaviors for application domains ranging from self-adjusting wearables and self-forming structures to self-regulating facades. As Research Group Leader at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD),