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HO Jin Teck, Daryl

SUTD Faculty Fellow
EMAIL
daryl_ho
sutd.edu.sg
RESEARCH AREAS
Architecture Design
Computation

Biography

Daryl Ho is a Faculty Early Career Award (FECA) Fellow in Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Daryl’s research operates at the intersection of extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), and philosophy, exploring how immersive technologies and spatial media can open new paradigms of cultural and epistemic praxis. His current work explores the development of XR platforms as critical design instruments that engage with discourse surrounding spatial experience and technological mediation, bringing philosophy of technology and media theory into productive dialogue with design research and creative practice at a moment when XR and AI are fundamentally reshaping the conditions of embodied practice and epistemic access.

 

Daryl received his PhD from SUTD, where he was awarded the President Graduate Fellowship. As part of his broader engagement with computational approaches to territorial and environmental design, Daryl has held a visiting research position at Aalto University under the Computational Methodologies in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism department. In parallel, he is actively involved in teaching and conducting workshops that critically examine the role of digital media and emerging technologies in design practice and pedagogy.

Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • MArch, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Research interests
  • Philosophy of Technology and Media Theory
  • Extended Reality (XR) and Platform-Making
  • Spatial AI and Embodied Interaction
  • Immersive Environments for Creative and Design Cognition
Publications
  • Ho, D. 2026. Virtual Reality: A Programme. PhD Dissertation, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
  • Ho, D., Boon, H. K., Chen, J. and Castro, E. 2025. ‘Co-Create: Exploring New Avenues of Collaborative Design in Virtual Reality through Asymmetry and Spatialised Tracking of Design Iterations.’  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).
  • Lim, S., Ho, D., Yu, J. and Wang, Y. 2024. ‘Virtual Reality “Space Agent” as a Socially Interactive Design Partner: A Study Investigating Users’ Perception of and Interaction with Socially Interactive Virtual Environment (SIVE) as a Design Partner.’ Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.
Awards
  • President Graduate Fellowship (2021)
  • Keppel Award of Excellence (2019)
  • Singapore Institute of Architects Award (2019)