Shajay is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich, where he is a research assistant in the Block Research Group. He also heads the research activities of the Computation and Design (co|de) group at Zaha Hadid Architects, London and works as a studio master at the AA DRL Master’s program.

Previously, he worked at Populous, London and completed his Master’s Degree at the AA School of Architecture, London in 2006. He has taught and presented work at various events and institutions including Tensinet Istanbul '13, ICFF Bath ‘12 , Designers Gallery AU ’11, Design computation symposium AU ‘10 , simAUD ‘10 , Siggraph ‘08, Yale University and University of Applied Arts , Vienna.

His current interests & responsibilities include developing design research and maintaining computational platforms for the same at ZHA.