Jenny E. Sabin is an architectural designer whose work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice - one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of adaptive materials, structures, and environments. Sabin is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and Associate Dean for Design at Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning where she established a new advanced research degree in Matter Design Computation. Sabin is principal of Jenny Sabin Studio, an experimental architectural design studio based in Ithaca and Director of the Sabin Lab at Cornell AAP, a transdisciplinary design research lab with specialization in computational design, data visualization, digital fabrication. Sabin holds degrees in ceramics and interdisciplinary visual art from the University of Washington and a master of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania where she was awarded the AIA Henry Adams first prize medal and the Arthur Spayd Brooke gold medal for distinguished work in architectural design, 2005. Sabin was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts 2010 and was named a USA Knight Fellow in Architecture, 1 of 50 artists and designers awarded nationally by US Artists.

In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and was named the 2015 national IVY Innovator in design. Recently, Architectural Record's national Women in Architecture Awards selected her for the 2016 Innovator in design.In 2006, she co-founded Sabin+Jones LabStudio, a hybrid research and design unit, together with biologist, Peter Lloyd Jones. Sabin is also a founding member of the Nonlinear Systems Organization (NSO), a research group started by Cecil Balmond at PennDesign, where she was Senior Researcher and Director of Research. Sabin's collaborative research, including bioinspired adaptive materials and 3D geometric assemblies, has been funded substantially by the National Science Foundation; applied projects have been commissioned by diverse clients including Nike, Microsoft Research, Autodesk, Google, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the American Philosophical Society Museum, the Museum of Craft and Design, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, and the Exploratorium.