Faculty
Dina El-Zanfaly
Associate Professor
Dina El-Zanfaly is a computational design and interaction researcher and Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. She directs hyperSENSE: Embodied Computations Lab, which focuses on new roles of computational design and physicality in embodied sense-making — including human perception, cognition, and experience.
Her research investigates computational methods to augment sensory experiences, the agency of computational creative modes of production, and designing interactions with intelligent systems from a critical human-centered lens. She asks: how can intelligent machines learn from us, and how can we learn from them?
Dina holds a PhD and MS in Design and Computation from MIT, where she was a Fulbright scholar. Before CMU, she was a Research Associate at MIT Design Lab and a visiting professor at Northeastern University. She is co-founder and co-director of Fab Lab Egypt, the first community makerspace in northern Africa and the Arab world.