Vernelle A. A. Noel

Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. She previously held the title of Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture. She is a computational design scholar, architect, artist and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab (SitCoDe Lab). She investigates relationships between knowledge, computational systems, and society through creative practices by building new concepts, frameworks, methodologies, and tools to explore creative, embodied, sociocultural and political aspects of computing for new reconfigurations of practice, pedagogy and publics.

Her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, and ideas2innovation (i2i), among others. She is a recipient of the DigitalFUTURES Young Award for exceptional research and scholarship in the field of critical computational design. She has a TEDx Talk titled "The Power of Making: Craft, Computation, and Carnival" and served as Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2026. She is co-editor of the book "Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment" with Dr. Yana Boeva. Dr. Noel has held positions at Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Stuttgart, the University of Florida, Penn State University, MIT and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and she has practiced in the U.S., India, and Trinidad and Tobago.