Research Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences
Drexel University
transitioning from
Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Formerly Research Professor, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
Formerly Professor of Design Science and Co-Director, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney
John Gero is a Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a member of the Charlotte Neuro-Cognitive Interaction Lab. Previously he was a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Computational Social Science, 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 57 books and over 850 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design cognition, design neurocognition, design computing, and artificial intelligence (citations = 32,000+, h-index = 80, i10-index = 400+). He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation or Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, CMU and GMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL in Switzerland. His former doctoral students are professors in the USA, UK, Australia, Finland, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan. He is listed as among the top 2% of international researchers by the Stanford Annual Assessment.
Current and recent research funding has been from the NSF (CMMI, CNS, DRL, EEC, IIS and SBE Programs), DARPA and NASA.
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 Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Design Science. He is the chair of the international conference series Design Computing and Cognition and the international conference series Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Life Fellow of the Design Society and Life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, among other learned societies .
Professor Gero is an international consultant in the fields of design research, design cognition and neurocognition, artificial intelligence in design and technology policy.
Twelfth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition - DCC'26
Talk to the Design Society tracing the history of Professor Gero's research