AI + DIGITAL TWINS

You are cordially invited to attend the online talk by Karla Saldaña Ochoa organised by CDCD Lab as part of the course AR5959D Made in Singapore II: Assemblages.

Date: 4 Feb 2026
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: SDE 3, Level 4, Barrel Room / Zoom

AI + DIGITAL TWINS

Karla Saldaña Ochoa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida and a faculty affiliate at the AI2 Center, the Center of Latin American Studies, and FIBER. She directs the AI in Architecture Graduate Certificate program and oversees the SHARE Lab, a research group focused on developing projects that leverage the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence, applied to enhance creativity in architectural design and create tools to analyse big data of urban phenomena. At UF, Karla works with Digital Twins (DT), which she defines as intelligent environments, focusing on how this technology is applied across various scales—from buildings to city-wide infrastructure. She collaborates on international projects in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, and Ecuador.  Karla is an Ecuadorian architect and coder with a Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture and a PhD in Technology in Architecture from ETH Zürich. Her PhD research focused on integrating Artificial and Human Intelligence to achieve accurate, agile responses to natural disasters, utilising a multimodal fusion approach for machine learning inference.