Zherui is a designer and researcher currently conducting his doctoral work between CEBD Thermal Architecture Lab and the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His cross-disciplinary research covers environmental building performance and structural form-finding, informed by architectural geometry, digital fabrication, and material. Previously, Zherui was a professional academic researcher at CHAOS Lab in Princeton University Andlinger Center for the Energy and Environment; and a faculty member at Penn, SUNY Buffalo, and Pratt Institute. He holds a post-professional MArch from Princeton University and a BArch from Pratt Institute.