Kermin Chok is an Associate Principal with Arup who currently leads the structural group in Chicago. He has been with Arup for about 10 years having started his journey in their Los Angeles office. Throughout his career at multiple firms, he has repeatedly contributed to architecturally expressive projects with high levels of geometric and structural complexity. Such project demands coupled with the needs of performance based seismic design on the west coast has led him to advance the state of the art of computational design as applied in the structural engineering domain.