Dr. John Gero is a Research Professor at UNC Charlotte, the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and in the Department of Computational Social Science and in the Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University. 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 50 books and over 600 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, and design cognition. He holds a number of software licenses. Dr Gero’s research is based on the notion that designing is itself a meta-discipline practiced in multiple disciplines such as engineering, architecture, industrial design and software design. John Gero's major contributions include promulgating the scientific approach to studying designing, the development of the FBS ontology of design and designing, artificial intelligence in design, novel protocol methods to study design cognition, situated cognition as the basis of computational models of designing, and the introduction of designerly thinking into studies of innovation.

Sponsor: this seminar is related to the International Collaboration Innovation Team Project of Tsinghua University (清华大学重点学科高水平国际合作创新团队支持项目)

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