Co-founder and CEO

Azam Khan is the Co-founder and CEO of Trax, a cloud-based building code and standards platform. Prior to Trax, Azam was Director of Complex Systems Research at Autodesk Research leading a team of researchers, software developers, architects, and engineers. His professional experience also includes working as Research Scientist at Alias Systems, and as Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Adobe, and ATI.

Azam received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He founded the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) in 2010, has been Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and was the Velux Guest Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Design. He has co-authored over 80 research papers and is co-inventor of 29 patents.