Roya Rezaee is co-director of Energy Lab at Perkins&Will, and instructor at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture. She has a PhD. in High Performance Building, with an expertise in design and a broad areas of building technology including energy performance, daylight performance, water consumption, life cycle assessment, parametric design, optimization, building information modelling (BIM), model-based system engineering, and risk assessment in performance prediction. Her main career at the firm focuses on the development of a novel integrated platform that enables designers make informed multi-disciplinary decision from the early stages of architectural design.