Erin Bradner Biography

Erin is a Sr. Research Scientist at Autodesk Inc. where she researches the future of computer-aided design and has managed user-experience teams across several of Autodesk’s engineering and design products. Her research currently focuses on generative design which applies computation to solve against the multiple often competing objectives that characterize today’s complex design and engineering projects. Before Autodesk Erin consulted for start-ups in the 90s designing cloud storage and recommendation systems and she partnered on research in social computing with scientists at IBM Boeing and AT&T.
Erin has also conducted numerous software ethnographies. She’s observed architects designing skyscrapers from 3D virtual studios studied children programming gravity engines with the XBOX from their couch and documented aeronautical engineers designing emergency landings for the space shuttle.
Erin has a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a PhD in Information & Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. Erin’s academic research focused on the effects of communication technology on interpersonal behaviors such as persuasion deception and trust. She has published in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-aided design and has filed as co-inventor on three software patents.

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