Dr. David Gerber is Associate Director and Global Research Manager at Arup Foresight + Research + Innovation (FRI) and Arup University. Arup is a global independent firm in design and engineering consulting working across every aspect of today’s built environment. Arup FRI is a dedicated research team into Arup that works in partnerships with academia and other businesses to delivery more sustainable solutions and ideas that are ready to be put in practice across an ever-growing range of subjects and issues included circular economy.

Dr. Gerber is an Assistant Professor at the USC School of Architecture. His research focus is in the Applied Sciences and in design, design computation, AEC technologies, and fabrication, emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and Building Information Modeling as a means of design exploration and realization. As Vice President of Innovation, he has lead teams in consulting for architecture, engineering, and construction firms on global digital practice, BIM, simulation, advanced uses of design computation and technology integration. He concurrently works as an executive at Gehry Technologies Inc., a leading Building Information Modeling consultancy and technology company.

Dr. Gerber has worked as an architect in the US, Europe and Asia, for the Steinberg Group, Moshe Safdie, Gehry Technologies, and as a project architect for Zaha Hadid, among other firms. He has held appointments at MIT’s Media Lab as a research fellow, as well as numerous teaching and research fellowships at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and as Harvard University’s Frederick Sheldon Fellow. He has been an instructor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory in London, Innsbruck University, the EPFL Switzerland and has been a guest speaker and critic at Harvard and MIT. While working for Zaha Hadid Architects, David worked on a number of the recently built projects including the contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Museum in Wolfsburg Germany, the Hoenheim terminus in Strasbourg and a number of unbuilt projects. He was project architect and project manager for the One North masterplan in Singapore.