Rate My Professor Ahmed El Antably

Professor Ahmed El Antably is the British Academy Global Professor at the York School of Architecture, University of York. He positions his research interests at the intersection of history, theory, and digital technology, examining these topics from a multidisciplinary perspective that continually crosses boundaries between architecture, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and computer science. He is particularly interested in the perception of design media, virtuality, and gaming, as well as the theoretical and practical potentials of emerging digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and the metaverse on the representation and perception of the built environment. El Antably's research specializations include design media and technical mediation, design computation, digital heritage, virtuality, and multi-modal representation of space.

Prior to his appointment at the University of York, El Antably served as Professor of Design Computation and Digital Heritage at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport in Egypt, where he also held the position of Dean of Education at the South Valley campus for five years. He completed his doctoral degree in Design Theories and Methods, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media, at the University of California, Berkeley. El Antably is the author of the book Experiencing the past: The virtual (re)construction of places (2013) and has contributed book chapters including Sounds from the roots: The digital reconstruction of sabil wa kuttab Ismail Al-Maghlawi (2025) and Everyday living in Cairo’s City of the Dead (2022). His peer-reviewed journal articles encompass Researching children’s physical environment: A systematic review of research methods (2025), Water plays: The architectural and acoustic reconstruction of sabil wa kuttab of Ismail Al-Maghlawi (2024), The pecking order: A Bourdieusian look at authority in virtual peer crits (2024), Knowledge-based HBIM for conservation: The case of Yahya Al-Shabih mausoleum (2023), Agent-based modeling and simulation of pandemic propagation in a school environment (2022), and It’s hard to be down when you’re up: Interpreting cultural heritage through alternative media (2013). As Principal Investigator, he leads the Nubian Chronicles project, funded by a British Academy Global Professorship award of £875,449, which reconstructs the submerged cultural landscape of Lower Nubia using virtual heritage technologies and generative AI. Earlier projects include Virtual Sirkap, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.