Short Biography 
Professor Kalay is Director of the Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. He is also the editor-in-chief (for Architecture) of Automation in Construction (an international refereed journal published by Elsevier), and a founding member and past president of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). Twice he has held the Lady Davis Professorship at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He has authored and/or edited six books, and published 71 refereed articles on various topics related to computer-aided design, including building representation, performance evaluation, multi-disciplinary collaboration, knowledge-based design, and virtual place-making. Professor Kalay teaches courses in computer-aided architectural design, evaluation and prediction in design, design collaboration, multi-user virtual environments, semantically-rich representation of design, the nature of design knowledge, design decision-making, design process management, and research methods in design theory and new media. His current research focuses on web-accessible multi-user virtual environments (MUVE) and multi-disciplinary collaborative design.

Books/Publications
Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (MIT Press, 2004)
Knowledge-based Computer-Aided Architectural Design, Ed. (Elsevier, 1994)
Evaluting and Predicting Design Performance, Ed. (Wiley, 1992)
Modeling Objects and Environments (Wiley, 1989)
Computability of Design, Ed. (Wiley, 1987)
Graphical Introduction to Programming (Wiley, 1987)

Courses
ARCH 132: Introduction to Computing in Architecture
ARCH 239A: Architecture and the Internet
ARCH 239B: Evaluation & Prediction
ARCH 239C: Design Knowledge Representation
 ARCH 239X: Collaborative Design
CNM 200: Research Methods in New Media

Philosophy
Computing and telecommunication have become the new media of architecture. They impact the methods architects use to design buildings, the buildings themselves, and even how they are used. My efforts are directed towards understanding the impacts of New Media on the processes, and the products, and the profession of Architecture, towards educating students to become professionals who can operate in this new environment, and to have some measure of influence on its direction.