Bio

Hi! Welcome to my Personal Website!

My name is Faraz Faruqi, and I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at MIT. My research is at the intersection of personal fabrication and Generative AI. I seek to leverage the recent developments in generative models for 3D, and Large Language Models to develop novel interaction and intent-specification techniques for computational fabrication. I am working in Prof. Stefanie Mueller’s HCIE group at MIT CSAIL.

I also participate in several community leadership and teaching programs at MIT. In the recent past, I have been a lead-instructor at the Brave Behind Bars, a university-accredited computer science and self-efficacy program for incarcerated individuals, with the goal of teaching them technical skills for career-readiness post-release.

Before joining as a PhD student at MIT, I worked with Prof. Sriram Subramanian at UCL, London as a visiting student, where we worked on visualizing 3D objects with acoustic levitation. As an undergraduate research student, I briefly worked at HCI Institute, CMU with Prof. Justine Cassell on a project involving creating virtual collaborative agents to elicit curiosity for science in young students through collaborative games.

Outside of research, I like to participate in the awesome sport of rowing, run along the Charles, and read books!