Nirvik Saha

Digital Innovation Technologist

Contact    im.nirviksaha@gmail.com

Access to projects    Github Repository

 

Digital Innovation Technologist, Boston, US (present)

 

Postdoctoral Fellow , Center for Architectural Science and Ecology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy and Brooklyn, New York, US

• Develop Cloud-based Open Data Infrastructure

• Develop Node Red plugins

• Setup, Maintain and Deploy apps on lab's virtual machines

 

Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US.

• Graduate Research Assistant at Digital Building Lab, GT:

  • Implemented novel space planning grasshopper-plugin DOTS LINK

  • Full-Stack 3d-web-application for large urban networks (Dr. Perry Yang) PLUGS-WEB

  • Developed software for several research projects at P+W (Dr. John Haymaker), since 2016

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School of Architecture, GT: computer graphics and web development with Dr. Dennis Shelden (‘fall, 2019).

 

Internships at Perkins & Will, Atlanta, Georgia May-Aug 2017, 2018, 2019 Consultant, Perkins & Will, Chicago, Illinois 8/2020-21

 

Technology & Skills:

• Programming Languages: C,  C++, Java, C#, Python, Javascript, Visual Basic

• Web/Frameworks: Node.js / Express.js, Django, Flask, Html/CSS & Bootstrap

• API/Frameworks: OpenCV, Three.js, SDL, Openframeworks, Processing

• Database: MongoDB, SQL

• BIM-API: Rhinopython, Revit, Grasshopper, Dynamo, Rhino API

 

Publications:

• Pieter Pauwels, Dennis Shelden,Jan Brouwer, Devon Sparks, Nirvik Saha, Tim Mc Ginley, Open data standards and BIM on the cloud in Buildings and Semantics (2022), DOI:10.1201/9781003204381-6 (Book Chapter)

• Okhoya, Victor, Marcelo Bernal, Athanassios Economou, Nirvik Saha, Robert Vaivodiss, Tzu-Chieh Kurt Hong and John Riker Haymaker.Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice. International Journal of Architectural Computing 20 (2022): 645 - 672.

• Saha, Nirvik; Haymaker, John; Shelden, Dennis (2020) Space Allocation Techniques ACADIA 2020: DISTRIBUTED PROXIMITIES

• Soowon Chang, Michael B. Tobey, Nirvik Saha, Yoshiki Yamagata, Perry P. J. Yang,Urban Systems Design, 1st Edition, Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era (2020), ISBN: 9780128160558(Book Chapter)

• Yang PP-J, Chang S, Saha N, Helen C, Data-driven Planning Support System for a Campus Design, (2020),  Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science Manuscript ID EPB-2019-0299 

• Chang S, Saha N, Castro-Lacouture D and Yang PP-J (2019a), Multivariate relationships be-tween campus design parameters and energy performance using reinforcement learning and parametric modeling. Applied Energy 249. Elsevier: 253–264. DOI: 10.1016/J.APENERGY.2019.04.109

• Chang S, Saha N, Castro-Lacouture D and Yang PP-J (2019b), Generative design and performance modeling for relationships between urban built forms, sky opening, solar radiation, and energy. Energy Procedia 158. Elsevier: 3994–4002. DOI:10.1016/J.EGYPRO.2019.01.841

• Rezaee, R., Marshall, T., Bernal, M., Saha, N., Haymaker, J. (2019). Constructing and Exploring Building Configurations Based on Design and Multi-Performance Criteria. IBPSA Building Simulation Conference, Rome, Italy.

• Vasanthakumar, Saeran; Saha, Nirvik; Haymaker, John; Shelden, Dennis, 2017, Bibil: A Performance-Based Framework to Determine Built Form Guidelines, ACADIA 2017: DISCIPLINES & DISRUPTION [Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-96506-1, Cambridge, MA 2-4 November 2017), pp. 630- 639

 

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