Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at SDU CREATE, focusing on construction robotics and machine learning. He completed his PhD in Architecture as a member of the Form and Matter (ForMat) Lab within the Stuckemen Center for Design Computing at Penn State University in 2024, specializing in advanced robotic fabrication, machine perception, and computational tool-making. Previously, he earned his Master’s in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University as a Fulbright scholar, where he was a member of CodeLab and Morphing Matter Lab, and a Bachelor’s in Industrial Design from Istanbul Bilgi University.
His contributions to the field have been recognized by the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) with the Young CAADRIA Award in 2020, and he has received the University Graduate Fellowship and the Alma Heinz and August Louis Pohland Graduate Fellowship at Penn State. During his doctoral work, he also spent time at Autodesk Research in San Francisco, developing a spatial perception pipeline for robotic assembly.