Demi Fang (pron. DEE-mee FAHNG) is an incoming Assistant Professor (active July 2025) with an affiliate appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering. Her research addresses the intersections of data-driven design, the human experience of structural design, and environmental impacts of structural systems.
As an educator, Demi is passionate about building intuition of structural principles in the future generation of designers, as well as equipping designers with key computational workflows to not only streamline design processes but also to enable creativity and emissions reductions at early stages of design.
Since 2022, Demi has also been an active contributor as a subcommittee member of SE 2050, a commitment program under the Structural Engineering Institute urging the structural engineering profession to reach net zero embodied emissions by 2050. She has contributed to a variety of SE 2050 resources and guides and led the first round of analysis and reporting of the SE 2050 database. Having worked at firms such as Thornton Tomasetti, SOM, Silman, and Guy Nordenson and Associates, Demi also values engaging directly with practitioners to enhance research impact while contributing directly and meaningfully to the profession.
During her graduate studies, Demi was awarded the MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship as well as a 2022 Summer Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to research sustainability in historic and modern Japanese structural design. She is also trained in evidence-based teaching methods through the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program.
Departments
Architecture
Education
- PhD in Building Technology, MIT Department of Architecture
- SM in Computational Science and Engineering, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
- SM in Building Technology, MIT Department of Architecture
- BSE in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Structures Track), Princeton University