BS, Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology BS, Art & Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.Arch, Yale University

Melissa Shin is a principal and co-founder of Shin Shin, an award-winning architecture firm based in Los Angeles and Detroit. She previously worked in the offices of Greg Lynn FORM (Los Angeles), Herzog de Meuron (Basel, Switzerland and New York), and Gehry Partners (Los Angeles). She has held teaching positions at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) and the Yale School of Architecture. She is a licensed architect in California and Michigan.