Karl D.D. Willis is a Senior Research Manager at Autodesk Research focused on data-driven design software for manufacturing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University and has presented his research internationally at conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM UIST, and ACM CHI. His work at Autodesk has won numerous awards including Fast Company Innovation By Design Honoree and Core77 Design Awards Research and Strategy Honoree.