Dr. Rezai is an engineer, a design visionary and an educator. He is a Global Design Director in Ramboll, and a proponent of Regenerative Design and System Thinking in the built environment. One of the initiators of the concept of “fusion engineering”, he is the first and only engineer to receive the coveted title of “Designer of the Year” from the President of Singapore. He is very passionate about the process of advanced computational design, and a holistic approach to architecture + structure + environment. Dr Rezai’s high-profile contributions to industry discourse include his involvement on the 13th cycle Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s Master Jury in 2016, as a jury member for the Singapore President’s Design Award (2017-2018), and as Vice Chair (2019-2020) and as Jury Chair (2021-2023).

His latest initiative, fusing Advanced Computational Design with Regenerative Thinking aims to redefine the collaborative nature of designers working with machines to be regenerative, and to overcome the compound challenges faced by the building industries, and the environments within which they are deployed.