Students | Institute of Design

In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
This website is an archive of the impactful and inspirational work produced by the ID community before that transition.

László Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, treating design as a discipline that was teachable, testable, and consequential. Nine decades on, its scope had widened from the things people use to the systems they depend on: hospitals, government agencies, classrooms, supply chains, digital platforms. Along the way, ID community members developed the published research, methods, and frameworks that designers rely on every day.

Chief among them is human-centered design: close attention to how people actually live, and advocacy for what that research reveals. It shaped designers who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: curious, rigorous, inclusive, and stubbornly optimistic about design's ability to change the systems that shape our lives.

To every one of them, who taught, studied, built, critiqued, and stayed late in the studio: thank you, and keep designing.

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Get to know our current students. Click on a photo below and you’ll reach available LinkedIn profiles and learn more about our community’s diverse interests and professional backgrounds—which range from anthropology to engineering, marketing to religion and more.

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By the Numbers

135

135 Current Students

7

7 Average Years of Professional Experience

64

64% Women

63

63% International

Current Students

Portait of PhD student Noor Abdal

Noor Abdal

PhD 2027

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Naomi Echeandia Abud

MDM 2025

Abeer Asem

Abeer Abuhejleh

PhD 2027

Portrait of MDes student Baffour Adu

Baffour Adu

MDes 2027

Asawer Ahyad

Asawer Ahyad

PhD 2026

Sai Allena

MDes + MBA 2024

Portrait of MDes+MBA student Ben Anderson

Ben Anderson

MDes + MBA 2027

Mariana Andrade

MDes 2026

Alvaro Delgado Aparicio

PhD 2026

Portrait of MDes+MBA student Ohene Appau

Ohene Appau

MDes + MBA 2027

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Amina Awad

MDes + MPA 2024

Amelia Ayomoh

MDes 2026

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Gilvan de Azevedo

PhD 2029

Deaa Bataineh

Deaa Bataineh

PhD 2025

Rebecca Beltran

Rebecca Beltrán

PhD 2027

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Helen Bentley

PhD 2027

Zubair Bhaidani

MDM 2025

Mrinal Bhatia

MDes + MBA 2024

Arundhuti Bhattacharya

MDes + MBA 2026

Faysal Biobaku

Faysal Biobaku

MDes 2025

Salena Burke

PhD 2026

Samantha Chandra

Samantha Chandra

MDes 2025

Han Wen (Vanessa) Chang

MDes + MBA 2024

Avani Chaturvedi

MDes 2024

Rutuja Chavan

MDes 2024

Zeya Chen at ID.

Zeya Chen

PhD 2027

Portrait of MDes student Jiahe Chen

Jiahe Chen

MDes 2027

Terah Delancy

MDes + MBA 2024

Brian Dexheimer

MDes + MPA 2026

Ruhi Dholakia

MDes + MBA 2024

Anurag Duddu

Anurag Duddu

MDes + MPA 2025

Regina Ellis

MDes + MBA 2026

Aimee Feuser

MDM 2026

Symone Fogg

Symone Fogg

PhD 2026

Portrait of PhD student Kristin Gecan

Kristin Gecan

PhD 2026

Michael George

Michael George

MDes + MBA 2025

Portrait of MDes+MBA student Benedicta Gokah

Benedicta Gokah

MDes + MBA 2024

Preksha Gupta

MDes 2026

Grace Parks Hall

MDes + MBA 2024

Nayoung Han

MDes 2026

Michael Ho

MDes + MBA 2024

Roger Hong

Roger Hong

MDes 2025

Xuci Hu

MDes 2026

Tzu-Chi Huang

MDes 2026

Shruthi Iyer

MDes 2026

Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson

MDM 2026

Sheethal Jacob

MDes + MBA 2026

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Shraddha Jain

MDes 2024