Carmelo Ignaccolo

Founding Partner, Vice President of Research

Carmelo Ignaccolo is a Ph.D. Candidate in City Design and Development at MIT, DUSP, where he is a Research Affiliate at the Civic Data Design Lab. He is also an Adjunct Faculty of Digital Techniques for Urban Design at Columbia University GSAPP. His academic work employs urban analytics and mapping techniques to analyze the urban morphology of historic cities and investigate how the built environment affects human cognition and behavior.

Before joining MIT for his PhD, Carmelo worked as an Urban Planner for the United Nations (UN-Habitat) in the Nairobi Headquarter (Kenya) and for the AECOM Urban Design Studio in New York City. Carmelo received a Master in Urban Design from Columbia University, GSAPP as a Fulbright Fellow, and a 5-Year Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Architecture-Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy.