Shruti is an emerging licensed architect and an inter-disciplinary urban designer and researcher. Her strong principle of sustainability and resiliency portray a scholarly profile that contextually exploits research foundations on response of physical and socio-cultural aspects on the urban environments. She enthusiastically engages in sparking conversations and collaborations for innovative ideas and problem-solving methodologies to arrive at comprehensive design solutions receptive to physical, social, economic and environmental paradigms. She pursues her passion of research by engaging in neighborhood and community development projects by promoting ecologically designed built-environments, facilitating food production systems that align with smart city planning solutions.

After Shruti’s move to Miami in August 2016, her work is replete with engagements in ongoing multidisciplinary research on campus and outside. By participating in diversified subjects related to food, she has fostered active design-research collaborations with faculty and professionals in the field. Her teaching and research assistantships aided in honing the skills for writing proposals and grants that bolsters her portfolio for working on design research projects. Prior to her recent Master degree, her three years of experience include working as an academician, architect and urban designer and as a researcher. She has participated in numerous architecture and urban design competitions and was a Finalist in the prestigious 2013 Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition. She continues to freelance as landscape architect, interior and graphic designer in the design field and data analysis and documentation along with grant and proposal writing and blogging in the research arena.