Rohit Sanatani

Rohit Priyadarshi Sanatani is a designer, researcher, and currently a PhD scholar in Design Computation and Advanced Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His work is supported by a Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) Fellowship. Rohit’s interests lie in data-driven lines of inquiry into the experiential and affective qualities of urban environments. His recent work has focused on the creation of design assistance and evaluation systems that help designers and planners to systematically engage with such complex and subjective qualities of the public realm. He has also been associated with the MIT Senseable City Lab, where his work has revolved primarily around large-scale urban visual analytics.

Rohit graduated with a dual Master of Science in Design Computation and in Computer Science from MIT. Prior to that, he was associated as Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, and also worked on multiple masterplan development schemes across India as Project Lead with Studio Lotus, New Delhi. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from IIEST, Shibpur, and a M.Arch (Urban Design) from CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Outside of his core professional domain, music and writing takes up much of his time. He is a classically trained violinist and pianist.