Trained as an architect, Behnaz Farahi is an award-winning designer and critical maker based in Los Angeles. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice from USC School of Cinematic Arts. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Design, California State University, Long Beach.

She explores how to foster an empathetic relationship between the human body and the space around it using computational systems. Her work addresses critical issues such as feminism, emotion, perception and social interaction.

Farahi has won several awards including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Digital Design Award, Innovation, By Design Fast Company Award, World Technology Award. She is a co- editor of 'Interactive Design: Towards a Responsive Environment' (2023) and ‘3D Printed Body Architecture’ (2017).