Isla is passionate about using technology to create positive social impacts. She is a Ph.D. candidate in architectural technology at Princeton University. Her research includes multi-agent robotic construction at the Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL) at EPFL in Lausanne and creative robotics at Leonard Lab in Princeton. Her interests lie in collective human-robot construction in architectural contexts, ranging from design to computation to implementation.
She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2017 with a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Economics, along with minors in Architectural History and Global Sustainability. She received her M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture in 2019. She also has expertise in VR/AR, tech transfer, and business development. She has experience co-founding startups, developing VR games and wellness apps, and assisting in teaching courses at Princeton on startups and robotics.
