Sumanth Thummala
Scholar since:
2025-09-01
Scholarship received:
Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship
Education:
University at Buffalo
Hometown:
Buffalo, NY
Sumanth Thummala is a Designer at Colliers Engineering & Design in Buffalo, NY. With 4+ years of experience, he works in civic, healthcare, and commercial markets. He holds an M.Arch and an MBA from the University at Buffalo and his interest is in project strategy, program efficiency, and evidence-based decisions that reduce lifecycle costs and improve program delivery. At Colliers, Sumanth works in the architecture discipline across multiple markets and collaborates with the healthcare team on business development and would like to focus on pairing design with data analytics to improve efficiency, program function, and financial performance. His interests extend beyond design; he is interested in using operational data to refine adjacencies and increase financial & program efficiency to the owner and the user, specifically in healthcare and private development.
Sumanth has been active in the Buffalo/WNY architecture community, serving as the President of AIAS at UB (2022-2024) and currently the chair of the AIA Buffalo/WNY Emerging Professionals Committee. He has also been selected as the 2025 MillerKnoll (HermanMilller) Healthcare Scholar. He is committed to licensure and to advancing a practice culture that treats data as a design material: clear, actionable, and human centered so architecture performs as well as it looks.
Sumanth has been active in the Buffalo/WNY architecture community, serving as the President of AIAS at UB (2022-2024) and currently the chair of the AIA Buffalo/WNY Emerging Professionals Committee. He has also been selected as the 2025 MillerKnoll (HermanMilller) Healthcare Scholar. He is committed to licensure and to advancing a practice culture that treats data as a design material: clear, actionable, and human centered so architecture performs as well as it looks.