Professor Robert Woodbury holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University where he was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal in Architecture in 1981. He earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He has held faculty positions at CMU, Adelaide University, the Technical University of British Columbia and is now at Simon Fraser University. Currently he is Scientific Director of the Canadian Design Research Network, the national association of design researchers in Canada. Dr Woodbury’s research is in computational design. From his research group have come many of the implementations of generative design systems, including the Genesis system, which was further developed and deployed at Boeing. He has been awarded numerous national competitive and private foundation grants for both research and teaching.