Niyati Naik

Dr. Niyati Naik has a well-rounded experience in practice, research, and teaching in Architecture. In her doctoral research she investigated on how adaptive external façade shading systems can be designed to influence indoor environmental variability and occupant s thermal pleasure perception. In her teaching activities at University of Oregon, she taught technical courses to architecture students. The courses involved topics in climate science, building energy performance, thermal-visual comfort, daylighting, water-fire management, and acoustics. Right after her PhD, she had a short stint as a Sustainability Specialist at CallisonRTKL, California. At CRTKL she helped design teams in making necessary decisions for creating high-performance and Net-Zero buildings designed by the firm in countries like Saudi Arabia, UK, South Korea, and China. As an architecture practitioner in India, she has an experience in working on commercial-institutional projects like the office blocks in L&T Knowledge City, Baroda and Institute of Plasma Research in Gandhinagar. Moreover, she has worked in the design team that developed master plan for TATA Steel s Noamundi township in Jharkhand, TATA Autocomp s industrial set-up in Pune, Maharashtra, and a multi-family housing development in Pen, Maharastra.