Dr Silvio Carta is an architect (ARB/RIBA), Chartered Building Engineer (MCABE) and Associate Professor at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), where he is Head of Art and Design and Director of the Professional Doctorates in Design (DDES) and Fine Arts (DFA).

Silvio’s research includes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning design methods applied to the built environment, urban data science, data-driven approaches and computational design. He is currently the Section Editor of Computational Sustainability and Design, City and Built Environment (Springer/Nature), and a member of the technical committee: Data Sensing & Analysis (DSA) of the European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3).

Silvio is the author of Big Data, Code and the Discrete City. Shaping Public Realms (Routledge 2019) and Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design (Wiley 2022).

He is currently working on the research monograph: How Computers Create Social Structure - Accidental Collectives (Palgrave MacMillan/SpringerNature 2023).