Waleed Farouk Elshanshoury — computational design and research

WALEED FAROUK ELSHANSHOURY

Waleed Farouk Elshanshoury, also known as Waleed Farouk and Waleed Elshanshoury, is a computational designer and R&D leader with over ten years of experience in architecture, product design and space research. His work focuses on generative design, advanced manufacturing and building performance.

As Head of Research and Development in Industrialized Construction, he leads work on automation, design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA), and computational tools for off-site construction.

His project experience includes Katara Lusail Towers in Qatar, Al Maktoum International Airport in the UAE and Egypt’s New Capital Central Business District. With SEArch+, he contributed computational modelling and environmental analysis to NASA’s Project Olympus lunar habitat research.

A Fulbright Scholar and UK Global Talent awardee, he holds an MSc in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and is completing a PhD at UWE Bristol on graph neural networks for urban energy prediction and generative urban design. He has also worked with design technology startups in the US and UK.