Kean Walmsley
Software Architect & Senior Manager
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Biography
Kean Walmsley is a Software Architect & Senior Manager focused on the research area of human-centric building design. He has previously worked on projects exploring the integration of IoT data with BIM (Digital Twins) using Autodesk Platform Services, as well as Generative Design in the AEC space. He has worked in various roles – and in various countries – during his career at Autodesk, including building and managing teams of software developers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific. Kean engages regularly with Autodesk’s developer and computational design communities, providing technical content and insights into technology evolution.
Areas
Watch to see how Kean’s long history at Autodesk has allowed him to build prototypes while working with multidisciplinary teams. He discusses his role in research engineering, specifically his work on integrating IoT and BIM data for visualizion in 3D which paved the way for Autodesk’s platform for building digital twins in the AEC space. Kean is currently leading research exploring the human experience inside architectural spaces.
Publications
2023
Algorithms for Voxel-based Architectural Space Analysis
This approach provides a simple and robust way to compute…
2022
Path Counting for Grid-Based Navigation
Counting the number of shortest paths on a grid is a simple procedure…
Projects
2019
Project Dasher: Real-Time Building Performance in BIM
Project Dasher is an Autodesk research project using a BIM-based…
2019
Project Discover: Workflow for Generative Design in Architecture
This project involves the integration of a rule-based geometric…
2018
Autodesk @ MaRS
Using generative design in architecture to work around work style,…
Blog Articles
2023
Is 2023 the Year AI and ML go Mainstream?
Kean Walmsley shares his thoughts on AI and ML potentially going…