Her research expertise includes building science and sustainable design, emerging building technologies and digital design. She directed Perkins+Will’s Building Technology Laboratory (“Tech Lab”), one of the first practice-driven research laboratories focusing on advanced building technologies, high-performance buildings, computational design, and building facades. Dr. Aksamija has contributed to several books and has published over seventy research articles. She is the author of two books, Sustainable Facades: Design Methods for High-Performance Building Envelopes (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) and Integrating Innovation in Architecture: Design, Methods and Technology for Progressive Practice and Research (John Wiley & Sons, 2016). Dr. Aksamija is the founder and editor of the Perkins+Will Research Journal.