Maximilian E. Ororbia, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Maximilian E. Ororbia, Ph.D.
Address

Office:
712H Boyd Graduate Research Building
200 D.W. Brooks Drive
Athens, Georgia 30602

 

Research Lab:
UGA STRENGTH Laboratory
Engineering Research and Education Center
Athens, GA 30605

Dr. Ororbia’s research includes the development of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) design, decision-making, and optimization processes and fabrication technologies for exploring, assessing, and generating design spaces for the smart built environment. His research team contributes to the development of approaches for sustainable and resilient infrastructure informed by modern and smart technologies, such as advanced manufacturing and construction, materials, as well as artificial intelligence. Overall, Dr. Ororbia and his students’ research goal is to enable the academic-industrial AEC community to explore new, vast and more complex design spaces, to seek out and realize creative and novel concepts, allowing designers to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Education
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2023
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Bucknell University, 2017
Professional Appointments
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Polyhedral Structures Lab, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2025
Awards & Honors
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. Fellowship
Areas of Expertise
  • Structural Analysis & Design
  • Design Space Generation and Exploration
  • Sustainable Design & Materials
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Decision Making
  • Topology Optimization
  • Computational Form-Finding
  • Advanced manufacturing and construction
  • Concrete 3D-Printing
  • Pre/Post-Stressed/Tensioned Structures
  • Experimental Structural Testing
Publications

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