Professor John S Gero

Research Professor
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study (Krasnow) and
Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
George Mason University

Visiting Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Adjunct Professor
Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS)
University of Technology, Sydney

Formerly Professor of Design Science
Co-Director, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (KCDC), University of Sydney

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Research Areas

Cognitive studies of designing: protocol studies of designing; role of drawings in designing more
Cognitive neuroscience of designing: the behaviour of the brain while designing more
Computational models of creative design: evolutionary systems; analogy; emergence; situated agents more
Evolutionary systems in design: genetic engineering; style emergence, complex evolution more
Ontologies: the development of the Function-Structure-Behaviour ontology and its application to designing, to designed objects and to designing processes more
Situated design computing: computation founded on situated cognition concepts that allows the acquisition and re-use of experience more
Visual representation and reasoning: emergence in design; shape representation; qualitative representations more

Current and Former Research Students

Conferences

Publications

Author, editor or co-editor of 43 books and over 550 published research papers.

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Short CV

John Gero is a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and at the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University and a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly he was Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of 43 books and over 550 papers in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL-Lausanne in Switzerland. His former doctoral students are professors in the USA, UK, Australia, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.

He has been the recipient of many excellence awards including the Harkness Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships, two SRC Fellowships and various named chairs. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals related to design science, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering and is the chair of the international conference series Artificial Intelligence in Design, the new conference series Design Computing and Cognition and the international conference series Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design.

Professor Gero is also an international consultant in the field of computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and technology policy.