Design Scientist 2026 Incubation Program

Environmental Scientist 

Felix is a sustainability leader with over a decade of experience in climate change, ecology, and nature-based solutions. Holding a PhD from the University of Exeter and a Master and Bachelor from Imperial College London, he currently serves at CUHK, managing the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, where he coordinates climate education programs and develops interactive exhibitions to raise climate change awareness for Hong Kong. He is also an ecologist, a certified arborist, and an active policy advisor. 

Lecturer, digital designer, PhD researcher.

Provides Ng is a Lecturer at the QS#1 Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and a doctoral researcher at the CUHK. She is the founder of Digital Common(s) Initiative, which works to improve digital literacy in underprivileged communities. She serves as panel members on the Development Bureau and LCSD, and was recognized as one of Global 15 by the Falling Walls Science Summit at the Berlin Science Week 2025. 

PhD, Architect, Analyst

Liza investigates AI's role in urbanism. She completed graduate degree at SPSUACE, Saint-Petersburg and was a practicing architect between 2011-2015. She was a tutor in UPC-BarcelonaTECH’s Building The City Now urban design educational program in 2014-2015 and at Strelka Institute 2017-2020. She worked at Strelka KB urban consulting bureau in Moscow as an analyst and co-founded Lion&Unicorn collective which is a contributor of a digital project within Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Architect, educator, PhD researcher.

Tifa is a PhD researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the founder of Tifa Studio, a design and research practice working across architecture, spatial analysis, and emerging technologies. Based in Hong Kong, his work explores how space, culture, and artificial intelligence shape perception, behavior, and everyday life, bridging academic research, design practice, and public discourse.

 Registered Architect.

Larissa has diverse experience in interior and architectural design, heritage conservation, mixed-use developments, and public infrastructure projects. After graduating from CUHK, she has worked on local, PRC, and overseas projects. Her experience covers design, construction, and project management across scales. She values close collaboration and stakeholder engagement as key to developing a holistic design vision, and is committed to problem-solving and transforming design concepts into thoughtful built outcomes.

UK registered architect and researcher 

Carson works at the intersection of spatial design and digital praxis. He currently practices at The Oval Partnership, where he contributes to an array of high-profile urban placemaking, regeneration and masterplanning projects across Asia.

Studied at the Architectural Association (UK), Carson's work interrogates the relationship between carbon accounting, data-driven urbanism, and robotic fabrication. 

Social Communication Practitioner | Design Strategist | Social Activist

Tracy explores how everyday actions relate to social challenges through visual and spatial design. She aims to improve quality of life by creating opportunities for participation and shared experiences, rather than fixed endpoints. Tracy is a Placemaking & Visual Designer at AaaM and worked as Designer & Engagement Facilitator at the Architecture Commons. She is also an experienced graphic designer in exhibition and brand design, with a Master Degree from RMIT, Australia. 

Architect, Computational Designer

Jing Chang is an architect and computational designer working at the intersection of architecture, HCI, and intelligent systems. Trained at the University of Hong Kong and Harvard GSD, Jing has professional experience in large scale architectural practice and research focused on digital design, Al assisted workflows, and embodied interaction. Her work spans data driven architectural analysis, interactive and kinetic prototypes.

Robotics Specialist & Material Research

Yaoyao is an award-winning interdisciplinary designer and UK Global Talent. She is a robotic specialist at the Architectural Robotics Lab, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Her research explores robotic fabrication, circular design strategies, and waste material regeneration to address resource scarcity, rising waste, and embodied carbon in construction. By integrating computational design with additive manufacturing, she develops bespoke, large-scale, and sustainable building systems.

Advanced Digital Designer, Architect. 

Carlos Rivera Salaverry is an architect by Universidad Ricardo Palma (URP) and educator in basic architectural design and experimental parametric modeling based in Lima, Peru. Focuses on computational design strategies oriented toward digital fabrication, with special interest in form optimization through climatic and structural variables. Explores sustainable approaches to digital fabrication of formal complexity at small and medium scale, integrating advanced computational methods to bridge design experimentation with fabrication efficiency.

Architect, Engineer, Researcher

Weihao Yin is an architect and founder of Atelier Guerrilla, holding a Master degree from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). His practice spans architecture, urban design, and experimental digital approaches, focusing on the intersection of narrative, public space, and emerging technologies. With also a background in civil engineering, he brings a multidisciplinary approach that combines problem-solving, collaboration, and the translation of conceptual ideas into built and digital outcomes.

Foresight Strategist

Diana Pang is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher working at the intersection of cities, care and culture. Now a Senior Foresight Analyst at Arup, she translates complexity into equitable and regenerative transitions through strategic foresight and design futures. Diana began her career in banking and strategy, with a background in applied mathematics from the London School of Economics and experience at Goldman Sachs, before consciously transitioning into design. She later spent a year in Costa Rica learning to design with and for nature, shaping a research‑driven, trauma‑informed practice. Her work has received a Core77 Design Award and been exhibited at Design Weeks in Singapore, Dubai, and Milan.

PhD Researcher, Architect, GIS Digital Cartographer

Nabi Agzamov is a PhD Candidate in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie co-funded REDI program (RMIT European Doctoral Innovators) and a researcher at 5th Studio in London. His doctoral research focuses on ecological urbanism and climate adaptation strategies across cities in the North Sea and western Baltic regions.  In 2024, he co-edited North Sea Rising: A Case for Water-Based Commons (VI PER Gallery), advocating for cooperative and ecologically balanced water management approaches. From 2019 to 2022, he led the Center for Urban Resilience and Ecology at Strelka KB. Previously, he worked at SCAPE in New York, contributing to the Ecological Citizens exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale.

Agzamov holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the New York Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University, where he received the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize. He is also an alumnus of The New Normal research program at Strelka Institute.