Rohit Priyadarshi Sanatani

Rohit Priyadarshi Sanatani is an urban researcher, currently pursuing the doctoral program in Design Computation with a concentration in Advanced Urbanism. As a Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) fellow, 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.   

Rohit graduated with a dual Master of Science in Design Computation and in Computer Science from MIT. He has also been associated with the MIT Senseable City Lab, where his work has revolved primarily around large-scale urban visual analytics. Prior to MIT, he was 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.