Carmelo Ignaccolo, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in 2024/2025 as an Assistant Professor, specializing in urban design, technology, heritage, and climate resilience. Carmelo’s work bridges urban design and city planning scholarship through spatial analytics, community-based research, and historical methods. He leverages geospatial analyses and digital humanities techniques to examine the relationship between urban form and spatial inequality, focusing on neighborhood change, environmental vulnerabilities, and heritage challenges. Prior to joining Rutgers, Carmelo held research and teaching positions at MIT DUSP and Columbia University GSAPP, where he contributed to international projects in the Mediterranean region, East Africa, and China. Beyond academia, Carmelo practiced as an Urban Designer at AECOM in New York City and as an Urban Planner for the United Nations Habitat Programme in Kenya and Saudi Arabia. Carmelo received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from MIT DUSP and a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University GSAPP.