Caitlin Mueller is a researcher and educator who works at the creative interface of architecture, structural engineering, and computation. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Architecture and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she is the Director of the Building Technology Program. Since 2014, she has led her own research group, Digital Structures. Mueller’s work with her group focuses on new computational design and digital fabrication methods for innovative, high-performance buildings and structures that empower a more sustainable and equitable future. Key research projects have focused on multi-physics design, optimization, and fabrication of low-cost, low-carbon concrete structures, and on harnessing emerging techniques in machine learning to develop more human-centric computational design processes. Recently, she has developed and tested algorithmic design approaches for unconventional material use in building structures, focusing on underutilized wood sources and reassemble-ble concrete parts. Mueller holds three degrees from MIT in Architecture, Computation, and Building Technology, and one from Stanford in Structural Engineering.