Evan Shieh is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and educator. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) where he teaches as a full-time faculty member, and is also the director of Emergent Studio, a design & research office operating at architecture's intersection with urbanism, landscape, and infrastructure. He has practiced architecture & urban design professionally for over a decade in both the private & public sectors, and has also previously taught at a variety of other academic institutions including at the University of Virginia (UVA), Parsons School of Design, and the City College of New York (CCNY). As an emerging educator, he was awarded the 2023 Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award by NYIT, and the national 2023 New Faculty Teaching Award by ACSA/AIAS, in recognition of demonstrated excellence and innovation in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career. Evan’s interdisciplinary research investigates the urban and environmental crises that our mono-functional infrastructures and technologies are implicated in, with a particular focus on the spatial impact of mobility infrastructure and new mobility technologies on design, planning, and other key aspects of the built environment. He is the author of Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia (ORO Editions/AR+D Publishing, 2024), a two-volume book monograph that explores the latent & transformative impact autonomous vehicles will have on the future of cities. His research and design work has been curated and exhibited at venues around the world, including at the 2023 and 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the 2020 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. He received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where he was awarded the graduating Thesis Prize, Prize for Academic Excellence, Award for Design Excellence, and the Irving Innovation Fellowship Grant.