As co-founder and CEO of Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spinout, Honghao Deng is an award-winning innovator and computational designer that created the field of responsive, context-aware architecture. Deng holds a Master of Design Technology with Distinction from Harvard GSD. He formerly was a researcher at City Science Group, MIT Media Lab. Under his leadership, Butlr is recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and has earned several awards in the field of smart city and building technology.