Jim Stoddart

Principal Research Scientist / Engineer

Americas

Biography

Jim Stoddart is a Principal Research Scientist in the AEC Industry Futures group within Autodesk Research and a core member of The Living, an Autodesk Studio. His work explores how new design, construction, and material technologies will lead to a better built environment for our planet and its inhabitants.

Jim has collaborated with a wide range of industry leaders to demonstrate the value of new design technologies—including bio-materials, machine learning, and generative design—on real-world applications and built projects. Jim has authored peer-reviewed research, holds patents for key generative design applications, and contributes articles to industry publications. His design projects have been widely published, won multiple industry design and innovation awards, and have been exhibited at international venues.

Publications

Publication

2023

Sustainability through Optimal Design of Buildings for Natural Ventilation using Updated Comfort and Occupancy Models

The benefits of incorporating natural ventilation simulation into a…

Publication

2022

Harnessing Game-Inspired Content Creation for Intuitive Generative Design and Optimization

A multi-scale generative design model that adapts the Wave Function…

Publication

2022

T-Domino: Exploring Multiple Criteria with Quality-Diversity and the Tournament Dominance Objective

A new ranking system for Multi-Criteria Exploration (MCX) that uses…

Projects (8)

Project

2019

Project Discover: Workflow for Generative Design in Architecture

This project involves the integration of a rule-based geometric…

Project

2018

Autodesk @ MaRS

Using generative design in architecture to work around work style,…

Project

2016

HIVE Exhibit

Hive is an innovative and interactive exhibit built through a unique…

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