Nimish Biloria

Dr Nimish Biloria has over 16 years of experience in transdisciplinary innovation within urban science, architecture, and interaction design across Europe, Asia, and Australia. After working at one of the world’s premier institutes for Architecture: The Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, he is currently working at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as an Associate Professor. His area of research: Empathic Environments, involves the study of human-environment interaction with its underpinnings in Urban Science, Human Behaviour, and Human-Computer Interaction. Under this research umbrella, he has amassed extensive research and design experience in leading multi-scalar transdisciplinary projects spanning the areas of Architecture, Smart Cities, Urban Informatics, Sustainable Mobility, Social Robotics, and Tangible and Embedded Interaction with a primary focus on enhancing human health and wellbeing.

His work involves interfacing fundamental research concerning sociopolitical and spatio-temporal components that shape our cities with multiscalar applied research, which fuse a range of information, and design computing technologies for modelling urban and architectural systems. This interface is deemed critical for addressing pressing spatial and allied liveability-related concerns in the urban domain. Topics ranging from indoor and outdoor thermal and visual comfort, machine learning approaches to enhance active ageing in the built environment, urban heat and its impact on health and wellbeing, psychophysiological mapping of human behaviour in the built environment, and agent-based modelling for simulating human and cultural behaviour, to name a few, are currently being investigated under his guidance.

He has also received multiple research grants from The European Union, The Federal Government, Australia, Not-for-profit organisations, Technology and Mobility organisations, Banking, and the Energy sector to conduct multi-scalar applied research investigations to improve the urban condition. This level of interest by multiple stakeholders and the transdisciplinary nature of his assignments positions his unique transdisciplinary research approach at the cutting-edge in the architecture and urban health and wellbeing research domain.