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Melodie Yashar is a space architect, technologist, and researcher. She is the VP of Architecture & Building Performance at ICON, a construction technologies company focused on large-scale additive manufacturing. Melodie oversees the architectural direction of ICON’s built work as well as the performance of ICON’s building systems to deliver optimally-performing structures that shift the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and in space. Melodie is a professor at Art Center College of Design. In previous roles, Melodie was a research associate at NASA Ames, as well as a co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture, a research group developing human supporting design concepts for space exploration. Her background is in industrial design, architecture, and human-computer interaction with an emphasis in robotics.