Vernelle A. Noelle

Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is the Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. She is a computational design scholar, architect, artist and Director of the Situated Computation + Design 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, socio-cultural, 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, and has a TEDx Talk titled, “The Power of Making: Craft, Computation, and Carnival.” Vernelle holds a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT, a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from Trinidad & Tobago. She is co-editor of the new book, Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment with Dr. Yana Boeva, and Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2026. 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 & Design, and has practiced in the U.S., India, and Trinidad & Tobago. She serves in professional and community associations such as The Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA, and a2ru, to name a few.