UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture will host John Gero, research professor in psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University, for a lecture at 4 p.m. on Nov. 4 in the Stuckeman Family Jury Space. Co-hosted by the Department of Architecture, the talk will also be live-streamed via Zoom.
In his talk, titled “The Minds and Brains of Designers,” Gero will explore what one’s mind and brain tell us about designing with and without cognitive offloading, such as generative artificial intelligence (AI). His research draws from mind and brain studies of architects, engineers and industrial engineers while they design.
Prior to his appointment at Drexel, Gero was a professor of design science and director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney. He has been a visiting professor of architecture, AI, civil engineering, cognitive psychology, computer science, computational social science, design and computation, or mechanical engineering at MIT, Columbia University, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and George Mason University in the United States, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France, and at EPFL in Switzerland
He is the author or editor of 57 books and has published some 900 research papers with over 34,000 citations.
Gero is an elected fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, an elected life fellow of the Design Society and a life fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.