About

John S. Gero, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University. Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Gero was a Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Previously he had been a Research Professor in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies and before that the Professor Design Science at the University of Sydney and the Director of its Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.
Dr. Gero uses computational models, cognitive methods and cognitive neuroscience methods, and brain imaging (EEG, fNIRS and fMRI), to study design thinking and creative thinking. He works collaboratively with multiple labs in the US, UK, Finland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Sweden and Switzerland.
Dr. Gero has published over 900 articles including 57 authored or edited books, as well as numerous conference presentations on design neurocognition, design cognition, artificial intelligence in design and design theory. His publications have been cited over 32,000 times and have an h-index of 80 and an i10-index of 400+. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (funding has come from the CMMI, CNS, DRL, EEC, IIS and SBE Programs), DARPA and NASA, amongst others. He is the founding editor and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Design Science and is an Associate Editor for multiple journals including the Creativity Research Journal. Dr. Gero is the founder and chair of the international conference series Design Computing and Cognition, a highly cited conference series, which has been running since 1991. Dr. Gero has received numerous honors and distinctions for his research. He 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 for the Arts, amongst others. Dr. Gero 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.

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Organizational Affiliations

Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology), College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University