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Recordings of presentations from the CDFAM Computational Design Symposium held worldwide. Leading experts in computational design, AI and machine learning for industrial design, engineering and architecture from industry, academia and software development.
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Episodes
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- Form Follows Force: Data-Responsive Stochastic Algorithms For Additive Footwear · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 3CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Tokyo 2026 David Burpee · MorphXgen Many Additive footwear platforms promise a level of customization beyond traditional footwear…
- Sub-Optimal: Designer-Built Tools for Additive Manufacturing · 23 min · Season 8 Episode 2CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Tokyo 2026 Sarat Babu · SARAT Computational design approaches to optimization are often constrained by the tools available and the…
- Introducing AURA, A Reasoning Engine for Design Exploration and Synthesis by Braid · 24 min · Season 8 Episode 1CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Tokyo 2026 This episode is the opening keynote from CDFAM Tokyo 2026, presented by Guido Cossu and Ivo Timóteo of Braid. Braid was founded…
- The Era of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Generation of Building Materials · 21 min · Season 7 Episode 24CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Giorgia Cannici · Virginia Tech What if material fabrication could shift from assembly to growth—and be directed with precision…
- From Horns to Armor: Biomimicry, Computational Design, and the Future of Impact Protection · 20 min · Season 7 Episode 23CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Matthew Shomper · Not a Robot Engineering Nature has been solving the problem of impact protection for millennia, in order to…
- Before the Model: Aurora as AI-Grounded Climate Intelligence for Early-Stage Design · 23 min · Season 7 Episode 22CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Damola Michael; Elliot Glassman · CannonDesign The environmental design conversation typically begins too late, after massing is…
- Bridging the CAD-to-Simulation Gap: Integrating Meshing-free Isogeometric Analysis into Industrial Workflows · 15 min · Season 7 Episode 21CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Matthew Sederberg · Coreform The traditional “design-to-analysis” loop is often bottlenecked by the laborious process of mesh…
- AI-Native, Simulation-Driven Insight with End-to-End Traceability · 17 min · Season 7 Episode 20CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Mike Park · Flexcompute Computational design enables wider configuration exploration and reduces time to market, but turning…
- Optimal Lattice Selection for PCM Thermal Management · 20 min · Season 7 Episode 19CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Andreas Vlahinos · Advanced Engineering Solutions PCMs provide cooling without requiring an extra power source, unlike fans or…
- Git for Hardware: Version Control as the Foundation for Agile Systems Engineering · 15 min · Season 7 Episode 18CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026 Steve Massey · SysGit Software development was transformed when version control became infrastructure rather than afterthought…
- Artificial Intuition: Building an AI Mind for Electromagnetic Design and Engineering · 22 min · Season 7 Episode 17CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Michael Frei · ARENA Physica Most advances in computational design focus on mechanical structure — domains we can…
- AI-Enabled Assembly Configuration Spaces: Encoding Mechanical Intuition at the Design-Manufacturing Interface · 21 min · Season 7 Episode 16CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Sai Nelaturi · C-Infinity The gap between digital design and physical assembly is not primarily a geometry problem. It…
- Physics AI as a Strategic Advantage: How Physics-based AI Models Are Reshaping U.S. Defense Engineering · 20 min · Season 7 Episode 15CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Juan Alonso · Luminary The next decade of great-power competition will be won or lost in the engineering loop…
- From Text to Robotic Assembly: 3D Generative AI and Discrete Robotic Assembly for Making Physical Objects · 11 min · Season 7 Episode 11CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Alexander Htet Kyaw · MIT Recent advances in 3D generative AI make it possible to create object geometries directly from…
- Computational Design in Aerostructures: Topology Optimization for Conceptual Design and Trade Studies · 17 min · Season 7 Episode 9CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Brandon DeMille · General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Computational design methodologies, including topology…
- From Requirements to Manufacturable Systems: Agentic AI on a Live Engineering Knowledge Graph · 18 min · Season 7 Episode 10CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Chris Helmerich · Celedon Solutions Most ‘AI for engineering’ tools today sit beside the design process with a chat…
- Fast and Robust Design with Implicit Functions and Direct Simulation · 19 min · Season 7 Episode 14CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Jan Vandenbrande · nTop Current Computer Aided Design systems excel in static detailed design but are too fragile and…
- Solving Aerodynamics Problems With Quantum Computers · 20 min · Season 7 Episode 12CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 William Steadman · Quanscient We present the results of the largest CFD simulations to date deployed on IBM and IonQ…
- The Digital Thread In The Real World: Multiple Partners, Multiple Tools, One Truth · 21 min · Season 7 Episode 13CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Austin Herrema · Istari Digital As the Department of Defense accelerates adoption of digital engineering and advanced…
- When Failure Is Not an Option: Bringing Certifiable AI to Engineering Design · 19 min · Season 7 Episode 5CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Rhushik Matroja · Cognitive Design Systems Artificial intelligence is poised to automate a large share of design…
