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Amaresh Chakrabarti - Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, India
ac123@iisc.ac.in
Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Professor of Engineering Design at Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur), a ME in Mechanical Design (IISc), and a PhD in Engineering Design (University of Cambridge, UK). He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as a framework for doing engineering design research. He founded IDeASLab – the first laboratory in India for research into design. He is Programme chair for ICoRD – the first international design research conference series in India. He is Honorary Fellow, Institution of Engineering Designers, UK, and recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Cambridge Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1987) and UK MG MIAA Commendation Award (1994).
Gaetano Cascini - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
gaetano.cascini@polimi.it
Gaetano Cascini holds a Ph.D. in Machine Design and is Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests cover methods and technologies supporting design creativity and innovation, as well as design cognition and its experimental investigation. He has coordinated several projects including the European projects FORMAT (FORecast and Roadmapping for MAnufacturing Technologies), SPARK (Spatial Augmented Reality as a Key for co-creativity) and OIPEC (Open innovation Platform for university-Enterprise Collaboration). He has (co-)authored more than 150 scientific publications and is reported as (co-)inventor in 14 patents.
Katherine Fu - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
kfu26@wisc.edu
Dr. Kate Fu is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, from 2014 to 2021. She has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Her work has focused on studying the engineering design process through cognitive studies, and extending those findings to the development of methods and tools to facilitate more effective and inspired design and innovation. She is an NSF CAREER Awardee and was honored with the 2020 ASME Design Theory and Methodology Young Investigator Award.
Jianxi Luo - Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
luo@sutd.edu.sg
Professor Jianxi Luo is the Founder and Director of SUTD Data-Driven Innovation Lab. He holds a PhD in Engineering Systems and MS in Technology Policy from MIT, and MS and BE in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University. His research focuses on data science and artificial intelligence for engineering design innovation. He has various awards and honors from Design Society, ASME, INFORMS, etc. He is an Associate Editor of AI EDAM, Associate Editor of Design Science, Department Editor of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Guest Editor of Technovation, editorial board member of Research in Engineering Design, among other journals, and a former Chair of INFORMS Technology Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section.
Kristina Shea - Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
kshea@ethz.ch
Kristina Shea is Professor for Engineering Design and Computing in Mechanical and Processing Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2012. Her research focuses on designing innovative and optimized engineered systems as well as developing cutting-edge computational design methods. She investigates a wide variety of application areas across a number of industries including consumer products, robotics, space, automotive and healthcare. Currently, she is excited about designing high quality technical products with purposeful design that can make a social impact in low and middle income countries. She has held academic positions at EPFL, University of Cambridge, UK, and the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Joshua Summers - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
joshua.summers@utdallas.edu
Joshua D. Summers is Head and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Summers earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from ASU (design automation) and his MS (submarine design) and BS (fluidized bed design) from University of Missouri. He has worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (VR Lab and NCARAI). He was formerly a Professor at Clemson University (2002-2020). Dr. Summers’ research has been funded by government, large industry, and small-medium sized enterprises. His areas of interest include collaborative design, knowledge management, and design enabler development with the overall objective of improving design through collaboration and computation.
Ashutosh Tiwari - Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE), University of Sheffield, UK
a.tiwari@sheffield.ac.uk
Prof Ashutosh Tiwari (CEng, FIMechE, FIET) holds the prestigious RAEng/Airbus Research Chair in Digitisation for Manufacturing at the University of Sheffield. He brings extensive expertise in digitisation and responsive control of skill-intensive manufacturing processes using Internet of Things (IoT), simulation and machine learning. Renowned for research in digital manufacturing, he serves on the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for Manufacturing and is an executive committee member of the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub and the EPSRC Connected Everything Network Plus. He has a track record of leading cross Technology Readiness Level projects in digital manufacturing, worth over £10M through funding from EPSRC, RAEng, Innovate UK, AMSCI and KTP.
Yong Zeng - Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Canada
yong.zeng@concordia.ca
Dr. Yong Zeng is a Professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering at Concordia University. He is the president of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS). He was an NSERC Chair in Aerospace Design Engineering (2015-2019) and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in design science (2004 - 2014). Zeng’s research aims to understand and improve creative design activities through formal, computational and neuro-cognitive approaches. He has proposed a new design theory called Environment-Based Design (EBD). Specific topics of his research interest include the science of design, methodology for innovative and creative design, neuro-cognitive model of design creativity, AI based conceptual design, and interplay between linguistics and design creativity.
Frances Brazier - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
f.m.brazier@tudelft.nl
Frances Brazier chairs the Systems Engineering Group at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. With a background in human–computer interaction, design theory, multi-agent systems, AI, requirements engineering, and distributed computing, her current research focuses on value-based design of participatory systems: large scale complex socio-technical systems that embrace and orchestrate emergence and self-organisation merging realities. Examples of such systems include distributed energy management, demand supply networks, social networks, and crisis management. She holds a MSc in Mathematics and a doctorate in Cognitive Ergonomics from the VU Amsterdam, has over 250 scientific publications. Parallel to her academic career she co-founded the first ISP in the Netherlands: NLnet.
David C. Brown - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
dcb@cs.wpi.edu
David C Brown is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and had a collaborative appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was the Editor in Chief of AI EDAM from 2001-2011, and was involved in 1987 with the start of the journal. He has been a Vice Chair of the Design Computing and Cognition conferences and has been a member of the Advisory Committees for the AI in Engineering and IFIP WG 5.2 Conferences, as well as for various international conferences and workshops on Creativity, Configuration, Design Rationale, etc. Dr. Brown's research interests include design creativity, computational models of engineering design, and the applications of artificial intelligence to engineering and manufacturing. In 2012, with Clive L. Dym, he co-authored "Engineering Design: Representation and Reasoning", published by Cambridge University Press.
Jonathan Cagan - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
cagan@cmu.edu
Jonathan Cagan is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Carnegie Mellon University, with courtesy appointment in Design. He served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering in 2019, having served as associate dean the four years prior. Cagan co-founded the Integrated Innovation Institute for interdisciplinary design education at CMU, including its three innovative and highly successful MS programs in product, service and software innovation and entrepreneurship, and a start-up accelerator in Silicon Valley. Cagan’s research focuses on engineering design automation and methods, merging AI, machine learning, and optimization methods with cognitive science problem solving.
Matthew I Campbell - Oregon State University, USA
matt.campbell@oregonstate.edu
Ellen Yi-Luen Do - University of Colorado Boulder, USA
ellen.do@Colorado.edu
Ellen Yi-Luen Do (Professor, ATLAS Institute & Computer Science) invents at the intersections of people, design and technology. She works on computational tools for design, especially sketching, creativity and design cognition, including creativity support tools and design studies, tangible and embedded interaction and, most recently, computing for health and wellness. She has served on the faculties of University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2013 to 2016, she co-directed the Keio-NUS CUTE Center in Singapore, a research unit investigating Connected Ubiquitous Technology for Embodiments.
Alex H.B. Duffy - University of Strathclyde, UK
alex.duffy@strath.ac.uk
Alex Duffy is Professor of Systems Design and currently Head of Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management, at the University of Strathclyde. He was previously the Vice-Dean of Research in the Faculty of Engineering and a past Vice President and President of the Design Society, an international body encompassing all aspects and disciplines of design. His research focusses on the application and development of artificial intelligence and cognitive based design, knowledge modelling and re-use, performance and process optimisation, integrated design systems, and design co-ordination.
Donal Finn - University College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
donal.finn@ucd.ie
Donal Finn is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include the application of artificial techniques to energy management problems, in particular: energy flexibility and demand response in buildings and urban energy domains.
John S. Gero - George Mason University, USA
john@johngero.com
John Gero is a Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Formerly he was Professor of Design Science, University of Sydney and a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author/editor of 54 books and over 700 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, design cognition and design neurocognition. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at INSA-Lyon and University of Provence in France and at EPFL in Switzerland.
Ashok K. Goel - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
goel@cc.gatech.edu
Ashok Goel is a Professor of Computer Science and Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He is also the Director of Georgia Tech’s Design & Intelligence Laband the Chief Scientist for the Center for 21st Century Universities. For about thirty five years, Ashok has conducted research into artificial intelligence and cognitive science with a focus on computational design and creativity. He was a Co-Chair of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2019 . Ashok is the Editor of AI Magazine published by the Association for Advancement in AI (AAAI) and the Founding Editor of AAAI’s Interactive AI Magazine.
Kazjon Grace - The University of Sydney, Australia
kazjon.grace@sydney.edu.au
Dr Kaz Grace is a Senior Lecturer in Designing with AI at the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His research is in the intersection of design automation and computational creativity, with an emphasis on how intelligent systems can help artists and designers co-create.
Roderick A. Grupen - University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
grupen@cs.umass.edu
Sean Hanna - University College London, UK
s.hanna@ucl.ac.uk
Sean Hanna is Professor of Design Computing at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a member of the UCL Space Syntax Laboratory. His research is primarily in developing computational methods for dealing with complexity in design and the built environment, including the comparative modelling of space, and the use of machine learning and optimisation techniques for the design and fabrication of structures.
Yan Jin - University of Southern California, USA
yjin@usc.edu
Mark Klein - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
m_klein@mit.edu
Mark Klein is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Illinois in 1989, and since then has worked for the Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory, Boeing Research, Pennsylvania State University and (for the last 23 years) the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also had visiting appointments at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Zurich, among others. His research draws from such fields as computer science, economics, operations research, and complexity science to develop and evaluate computer technologies that enable greater 'collective intelligence' in large groups faced with complex decisions.
John C. Kunz - Stanford University, USA
kunz@stanford.edu
John Kunz is Executive Director, Emeritus, of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University and an active member of the board of Alice Technologies, a startup company that offers a generative simulation software platform for construction. Interests include engineering design and engineering practices, engineering informatics and Artificial Intelligence.
Chris McMahon - School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
chirs.mcmahon@bristol.ac.uk
Wolfgang Nejdl - Institut für Verteilte Systeme, Hannover, Germany
nejdl@kbs.uni-hannover.de
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl (born 1960) has been full professor of computer science at the University of Hannover since 1995. Prof. Nejdl heads the L3S Research Center, as well as the Distributed Systems Institute/Knowledge Based Systems, and does research in the areas of Information Retrieval, Web Science, Artificial Intelligence, Social and Semantic Web, Digital Libraries and Technology Enhanced Learning. He was PI of the ERC Advanced Grant ALEXANDRIA, from 2014-2019, working on foundations for temporal retrieval, exploration and analytics in Web archives. Current projects include NoBIAS, SoBigData++, IIP-Ecosphere and the International Leibniz Future Lab on Artificial Intelligence.
Panos Papalambros - University of Michigan, USA
pyp@umich.edu
Panos Y Papalambros, PhD, PE, is the James B. Angell Distinguished University Professor, the Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds a diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and M.S. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of ASME and SAE, and the recipient of the JSME Systems and Design Achievement Award, ASME Design Automation, ASME Machine Design, ASME Spira Outstanding Design Educator, and ASEE Ralph Coats Roe Awards.
H. Van Dyke Parunak - Vector Research Center, Jacobs Technology, USA
van.parunak@gmail.com
William C. Regli - The University of Maryland at College Park, USA
regli@umd.edu
Dr. Regli is a computer scientist who has focused his career on interdisciplinary and use-inspired problems spanning engineering, artificial intelligence and computational modeling and graphics. Dr. Regli’s current interests include computational tools to exploit the properties of advanced materials, additive manufacturing systems and enabling new paradigms for design and production.
Warren Seering - MIT, USA
seering@mit.edu
Professor Seering received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Missouri at Columbia. In 1978, Professor Seering was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has taught courses in design, product development, applied mechanics, system dynamics, and numerical methods. His research interests are in the areas of machine dynamics, product development, and engineering systems design, and in engineering students’ career development. Since 2010 he has held the position of Engineering Director of MIT’s master’s degree program in engineering and management, the System Design and Management Program. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Massachusetts. Professor Seering holds the Weber-Shaughness Faculty Chair in the School of Engineering at MIT. He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge University, Cal Tech, The University of California at Irvine, The University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Li Shu - University of Toronto, Canada
shu@mie.utoronto.ca
Robert B. Stone - Oregon State University, USA
rob.stone@oregonstate.edu
Rudi Stouffs - National University of Singapore, Singapore
stouffs@nus.edu.sg
Rudi Stouffs is Dean’s Chair Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research) at the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. At NUS, he leads the Architectural and Urban Prototyping lab, is Research Thrust Leader for Parametric BIM in the NUS Centre of Excellence in BIM Integration, and a Principal Investigator in the Future Resilient Systems II research programme at the Singapore ETH Centre. His research expertise and interests include computational issues of description, modelling, and representation for design, in the areas of building information modelling and analysis, virtual cities and digital twins. His special interest in AI-EDAM followed from an opportunity to edit a special issue on Design Spaces, with a markedly different format than usual.
Markus Stumptner - University of South Australia, Australia
mst@cs.unisa.edu.au
Markus Stumptner is Chair of Computing at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, where he leads the Industrial AI Research Concentration. He has worked on knowledge representation and reasoning in a variety of areas such as configuration, interoperability, and service composition, as well as work on AI methods for automated model creation from natural language, ontology learning, and big data architectures for analytics. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), and has been working on industrial data and information systems standards since 2004. He is currently Co-CTO of MIMOSA, a not-for-profit industry trade association dedicated to development and adoption of open, supplier-neutral IT and IM standards for physical asset lifecycle management, and is Program Lead: Digital Technologies and Interoperability of the Future Energy Exports Collaborative Research Centre (FEnEx CRC).
Tetsuo Tomiyama - The International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan
tomiyama.tetsuo@iput.ac.jp
Professor Tetsuo Tomiyama has been Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Technology at the International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo since April 2020. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor at Cranfield University in the UK between September 2018 and October 2012, Professor at Delft University of Technology between July 2002 and September 2012, and Professor at the University of Tokyo between April 1998 and June 2002. He is an expert in design theory and methodology, function modeling, systems architecting, maintenance engineering, and service engineering. Professor Tomiyama is Fellow of ASME (The American Association of Mechanical Engineers), CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering), and JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers). Currently, he is Vice-Chair of the CIRP Scientific Technical Committee Design.
Kristin Wood - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
kristinwood@sutd.edu.sg
Maria Yang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
mcyang@mit.edu
Maria Yang is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT. She is founder and director of the Ideation Lab. Her research centers on the preliminary phases of the design process and focuses on how the way designers design can impact outcome. She is an ASME Fellow and has received the NSF CAREER award and the ASEE Merryfield Design Award. Yang previously served as director of design at Reactivity, a Silicon Valley startup now a part of Cisco Systems.