Research Interest
Irmandy is an Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Professorship) at the Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore, where he directs the Soft Technologies Lab. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zurich and an S.M. and Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab. Irmandy has worked with various companies and institutions in fields such as fashion and wearable technology, flexible-stretchable devices, and consumer electronics.
His multidisciplinary research explores digital fabrication and the system integration of intelligent textiles and sensor-actuator networks across scales, with applications spanning health and well-being, human-computer interaction, interactive arts, architecture, and beyond. Irmandy’s work has been featured in academic and media outlets across art, design, science, and technology, including IEEE, ACM, Nature, Popular Science, TechCrunch, Dezeen, and Domus Magazine. His projects and installations have also been exhibited in several venues, including Burning Man, SXSW, the MIT Museum, Cambridge Science Festival, Boston Fashion Week, Lexus Intersect Tokyo, and the World Economic Forum.