Ariel Noyman

PhD Candidate, City Science Group
MIT Media Lab 20 Ames Street
E15-368 Cambridge, MA 02142

noyman@mit.edu
ArielNoyman.com
media.mit.edu/people/noyman

About

I'm a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab City Science Group, a lecturer at Northeastern University, an architect and an urban designer working to fuse cities and technology. My research is on novel methods urban modeling and simulation, future mobility and decentralized participation. In recent years, I've coordinated and deployed a worldwide network of City Science Living-Labs (in Boston, Hamburg, Shanghai,Andorra and Helsinki) in an effort to confront my lab work with real-world challenges. My work received awards from the European Commission, the OECD, the Israeli Gov., was featured by The Guardian, 60 Minutes, The New York Times and was displayed in exhibitions, conferences and summits worldwide. I have a Master of Science from MIT and a Bachelor in Architecture (cum Laude) from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.

Education

‘18 – ‘21 (exp) PhD in Media Arts & Science City Science Group, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

‘13 – ‘15 Master of Science in Architecture & Urban Design Studies (SMArchS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (GPA 5/5)

‘03 – ‘08 Bachelor of Architecture The Department of Architecture ‘Bezalel’ Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (Magna Cum Laude)

Work

Research Scientist, City Science Group, MIT Media Lab

Lead Researcher for MIT collaboration in Hamburg, Germany. Lead R&D of CityScope urban modeling and simulation platforms

Architectural Designer, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF NY)

Studies and detailed design for high-end retail and residential projects in the US and China

Researcher, Center For Advanced Urbanism SA+P CAU, MIT

Researcher and designer for Rebuild By Design, a multimillion dollar federal initiative for post disaster resiliency in the Tri-State area

Project Manager, Chyutin architects

Lead designer of Institutional and academic projects. Winning design competition for the new Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem

Project Manager, EKA architects

Lead design and construction of major public projects as the Tel-Aviv City Museum and the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem

Architect, Margalith Arch & Urban Planners

Architecture, design and construction of Academic, medical and high-end residential projects

‘15 - ‘17

Cambridge, MA

June-Sept ‘14

New-York,

‘13 - ‘14

Cambridge, MA

‘10 - ‘12

Tel-Aviv,

Israel

‘08 - ‘09

Tel-Aviv,

Israel

‘06 - ‘08 Jerusalem, Israel

Tools

Code

Data

Web

Sim

Model

Render

CAD

Fab

GIS

Graphics

Python, C#, Processing

Numpy, Pandas, Tensorflow, Keras, SKlearn

ES6, React, Angular, WebGL, Node

Unity, SUMO

Rhino/Grasshopper, 3DSmax, SketchUp

Vray, Maxwell, THREEjs

AutoCAD, Revit

CNC, Laser, 3d Printing

Qgis, ArcGIS, Carto, Mabox, Leaflet, deckGL

Adobe CC

Teaching

MIT Media Lab

MAS courses instructor

Northeastern University

Adjunct Professor of architecture & urbanism

MIT SA+P

Design studio instructor

Bezalel Academy for arts & design

Adjunct Professor of the Practice

‘16-’18

‘15-’16

‘15

‘08-’10

Projects
City Science Group, MIT Media Lab, Research Scientist, Project Leader, Instructor Cambridge MA	Since ‘14
Lead Researcher, MIT Media Lab and the City of Hamburg collaboration establishing and managing MIT+HCU CityScience Lab in Hamburg, Germany CityScope Grasbrook: Multi-participant platform for design, collaboration and evaluation of design proposal for the HCH Grasbrook site competition FindingPlaces: Public participation process using CityScope for data-driven planning for 80,000 refugees PortCity: Using ABM to optimize travelers routes in-and-out of Hamburg Port Lead Developer, MIT CityScope: An urban modelling, simulation and prediction platform BRT For Boston: a novel urban decision-making toolkit for BRT transit corridors impact assessment CityScope Rothenburgsort: Studies for 2024 Olympic bid urban development in Hamburg, Germany CityScope Playground: Analysis and prediction of zoning envelops impact on Kendall Sq. redevelopment CityScope Andorra: Tourism analysis through telecom data and ML models CityScope Aalto: Optimizing public facilities usage via dynamic sharing model CityIO & CityScopeJS: Open-source, microservice architecture for real-time urban analytics and prediction

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), Architectural Designer New-York, NY	‘14
Spring City 66 Kunming Dongfeng Plaza, a Commercial, office and luxury serviced apartments complex. Design studies and construction documentation
Center For Advanced Urbanism, Researcher MIT, Cambridge, MA	‘13-’14
Rebuild by Design (RBD) ‘The New Meadowlands’: Winning entry for $150M HUD multistage planning and design competition following hurricane Sandy in the Tri-State area
Chyutin Architects, Project Manager Tel-Aviv, Israel	‘10-’12
The Museum Of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel. Winning entry for an international competition and design towards construction of a $260M campus, including two museum exhibitions, a children's museum, conference center, a 500-seat banquet hall, an 800-seat lecture hall, a 1000-seat outdoor amphitheater and two viewing theaters The National Library, Jerusalem, Israel. Inverted international competition The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Shiva, Israel. $22M Academic biotechnology laboratory building


EKA \| Efrat Kowalski Architects. Project Manager Tel-Aviv, Israel	‘08-’09
Beit Hai'r Tel-Aviv city Museum A city museum and a cultural center in Tel-Aviv’s old City Hall building The Israeli Museum Reconstruction and extension of the Israeli Museum, Jerusalem Ordos 100 a 1000sqm villa project in inner Mongolia, China. Curated by Ai Weiwei, Herzog & de Meuron 15 Maserik Place Transformation of a 1950’s Social Security building into a modern apartment complex (competition entry, 2nd place)



Moshe Margalith AIA & Associates, Architect Jerusalem, Israel	‘06-’08
The Yaakov Herzog Center for Jewish Studies Academic Campus, Kibbutz Ein-Tzurim, Israel Lapa House 1600sqm luxury villa, Herzelia, Israel Bezalel Academy for Art & Design Campus International competition entry Red Crescent Medical Center Medical complex for the Red Crescent Society Hospital on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem



Ariel Noyman, Architecture & Design Tel Aviv, Israel & Geneva, Switzerland	‘11-’12
Campus design for an educational institute conference hall and a dining room building (300sqm) and a 35 room dormitory building (800sqm) Williams house spa hotel, Eilat, Israel Winning entry for a boutique spa hotel and resort competition, the Red Sea shores Tel Aviv 'Lev-Hai'r square' high-rise complex, Tel Aviv Design and execution of a ‘0sqm luxury apartment


Selected Publications A. Noyman, R. Doorley, Z. Xiong, L. Alonso, A. Grignard, and K. Larson, Reversed Urbanism: Inferring Urban Performance Through Behavioral Patterns In Temporal Telecom Data Environ. Plan. B Urban Anal. City Sci., vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1480–1498, 2019. A. Noyman, T. Holtz, J. Kröger, J. R. Noennig, and K. Larson, “Finding Places: HCI Platform for Public Participation in Refugees Accommodation Process in Procedia Computer Science, 2017, vol. 112, pp. 2463–2472. R. Doorley, A. Noyman, Z. Xiong, L. Alonso, A. Grignard and K. Larson, RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data 2019 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/SCSP.2019.8805683 Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and an HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019 A. Noyman, A. Stibbe, and K. Larson, Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces Twenty-third Am. Conf. Inf. Syst., pp. 1–10, 2017. A. Noyman, Y. Sakai, and K. Larson, CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform CHI ’18 CHI Conf. Hum. Factors Comput. Syst. (to be Publ., 2018. T. Alrashed et al., An Observational Study of Usability in Collaborative Tangible Interfaces for Complex Planning Systems, Procedia Manuf., vol. 3, pp. 1974–1980, 2015. A. Noyman, PowerStructures: the Urban Form of Regulation, SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015.
Exhibitions
World Government Summit Dubai, UAE. FindingPlaces project in Edge of Government Exhibition	‘19
The Road Ahead NYC, USA. CityScope in the ‘Road Ahead’ NYC Cooper Hewitt exhibition	‘18
Smart City Expo World Congress Barcelona, Spain. Andorra Project Participatory Platforms: CityMatrix, AndorraScope, AndorrAR	‘16
American Planning Association Phoenix, Arizona. City Science Group CityScope & CityIO Participatory Platforms	‘16
Space Packing Architecture Ostrava, Czech Republic and Wroclaw, Poland. The Life and Work of Alfred Neumann. Curated by Prof. Rafi Segal	‘15
Autodesk University Las-Vegas. Interactive demonstration of the Play/Ground platform (CityScope VI)	‘14
Water Towers - New perspectives Jaffa Harbor Gallery, Israel. Competition entry exhibition	‘11
Urban Fantasy Shalom Tower Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Alternative approaches to future design of ‘Ha’medina’ square	‘09
Innovative Ideas for Porto Water Tanks Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. Competition entry exhibition	‘08
GreenPeace IAA Center, Jaffa, Israel. Competition entry exhibition	‘07
Synagogues as Spaces of Equality The museum of Israeli art, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Competition entries exhibition	‘05
Teaching
MIT Media Lab City Science 4.557 MAS.S65 Instructor Creative Places \| Understanding & Enabling Entrepreneurial & Vibrant Urban Hot Spots	‘16-’18
Northeastern University Architecture and Urbanism Adjunct Professor Spring ‘16 - ‘ADUs in Boston’ Master Thesis Fall ‘15 - 4th year undergrad Intro to Urban Design	‘15-’16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Core II Studio (with Prof. Rafi Segal) Public Figures - Public library building in Cambridge	‘15
Bezalel Academy for arts & design, Jerusalem Studio Instructor
'Reuse' Studio (with Prof. Zvi Efrat, Arch. Meira Kowalsky) Rethinking urban periphery in southern-Israeli provincial town	‘10
‘Big Buildings’ Studio (with Arch. Erez Ella) Multi-program structures along intense urban infrastructures and edges	‘09
'MKarov' Studio (TA with Arch. Gal Tevet) Prefab experiments on the verge of Porto city’s waterline	‘08
Scholarships and Awards
Eropean Union UrbanAct Award for ‘FindingPlaces’ project	‘18
MIT Full Departmental Fellowship, $350K	‘13,’17
Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Architecture graduated Cum Laude History & Theory Department graduated Magna Cum Laude Extraordinary graduates of the History & Theory Department Institute pick Azrieli Foundation Award for thesis project excellence Scholarship for excellence in 4th year design studies Award for excellence in 4th year theory studies Scholarship for excellence in 3rd year design studies Award for excellence in 3rd year theory studies Scholarship for excellence in 2nd year design studies	‘08 ‘08 ‘08 ‘08 ‘07 ‘07 ‘06 ‘06 ‘05

Design Competitions

Re-Public The Union of Architects of Russia (UAR), RIBA

Station No.5 Berkeley University, SPIHS, Bezalel Academy, IL

The 8th souk Magazine architecture A2 Dubai

GreenWash Water the municipality of Porto, Portugal

Green/Peace Ministry of Environmental Protection, Israel

Mosaic Ministry of Education, Israel

JerusaLame Bezalel Academy with Akerstein Co.

Septum ‘Kolech’ Organization, Women Forum for equality

International competition

National Students competition

Students Competition

National competition

Finalist

Third place

Honorable mention

First place

Third place

First place

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‘06

‘05

About

Education

Work

Research Scientist, City Science Group, MIT Media Lab

Architectural Designer, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF NY)

Researcher, Center For Advanced Urbanism SA+P CAU, MIT

Project Manager, Chyutin architects

Project Manager, EKA architects

Architect, Margalith Arch & Urban Planners

Tools

Teaching

Projects

City Science Group, MIT Media Lab, Research Scientist, Project Leader, Instructor

Lead Researcher, MIT Media Lab and the City of Hamburg collaboration

Lead Developer, MIT CityScope: An urban modelling, simulation and prediction platform

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), Architectural Designer

Center For Advanced Urbanism, Researcher

Chyutin Architects, Project Manager

EKA | Efrat Kowalski Architects. Project Manager

Moshe Margalith AIA & Associates, Architect

Ariel Noyman, Architecture & Design

Selected Publications

Exhibitions

Teaching

Scholarships and Awards

Design Competitions