Welcome to iyad's official online presence. iyad is a Milan-based American urban planner, designer, and amateur programmer.
Born in 1997 in Nashville (Tennessee, USA), iyad grew up in Jackson, Tennessee. He received his BA in Urban Design & Architecture from New York University in 2020 with a minor in Studio Art, and spent a semester in Shanghai (2018) studying Interactive Media Arts.
iyad left NYC for Milan in 2021 to pursue a MSc. in Urban Planning & Policy Design at the Politecnico di Milano via a Fulbright grant. He graduated in 2024 with a supplementary track in Geoinformatics and remains in Milan where he has founded a software startup related to personalized, spatiotemporal mapping called Portal.