Panos Papalambros

Panos Y Papalambros, PhD, PE, is the James B. Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, the Donald C. Graham Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds emeritus faculty appointments in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Art and Design. 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 has co-authored the textbook Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation (1988, 2000, 2007). He is a Fellow of the Design Society, 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, ASEE Ralph Coats Roe Awards, and ASME Ben C. Sparks Medal. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a past president of the Design Society.

Rachael Hamilton

Rachael Hamilton is a Senior Administrative Assistant at the College of Engineering’s Integrative Systems + Design group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan in 2005 and has worked with the University since then, gaining editorial experience by assisting with the Stapp Car Crash Conference® and Journal. Additionally, she holds a part-time faculty position at Washtenaw Community College teaching developmental English, composition, and business writing

Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen

Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, PhD, joined Exeter (based in London) as a co-director of INDEX, and is the DIrector of DIGITLab an UKRI £12.M Centre, she moved from the Royal College of Art, where she was a Professor and Head of Design Products. She was formerly Deputy Head, and Professor (Design Engineering and Design Methodology) at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. She was a Professor at the Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark and led the Design, Engineering and Innovation Research Section. She conducted her PhD at the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at the University of Cambridge, where she was also an Engineering fellow of Edward Murray College. Her research interests focus on engineering design to develop tools and methods that improve design synthesis, creativity, support global product development and provide decision support throughout a product’s lifecycle. She has over 100 reviewed publications and works in close collaboration with industry, from aerospace, oil drilling equipment, medical devices, to consumer products such as headsets. A multidisciplinary approach including computer science, engineering, and psychology is adopted to research.

Albert Albers

Petra Badke-Schaub

Dr. Petra Badke-Schaub (PhD 1992, Bamberg University, ‘Groups and complex problem solving’) is a professor for Design Theory and Methodology since 2004 at the TU Delft, NL, prior to which she held academic positions at the Institute of Theoretical Psychology at Bamberg University, and was a member of the Max-Planck-Project Group ‘Cognitive Anthropology’ in Berlin from 1991 till 1993. As Head of the section Design Theory and Methodology, her group is doing design research and provides education in the Bachelor and Masters on all aspects of the design process related to the designer. With her background as a psychologist, she integrates topics such as creativity, cognitive conflicts and reflection into a theoretical framework “Human Behavior in Design” what comprises analysis and explanation of design behavior in context and ask from there the question how to support the designer.

Jean-François Boujut

Jean-François Boujut, PhD, is a Professor of Engineering Design at Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP). He is a member of the academic staff of the Industrial Engineering School of Grenoble INP and holds the responsibility of the innovation and creativity courses. He is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) and holds an Agrégation of Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. degree from University Paris 6. He earned his PhD in 1993 in Mechanical Engineering and his Habilitation in 2001 in the same discipline. He is a former member of the advisory board of the Design Society.

Jonathan Cagan

Jonathan Cagan, PhD, PE, is the George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments in the School of Design and Computer Science. He co-directs the Integrated Innovation Institute and Master of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services at CMU and serves as the Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the College of Engineering. Prof. Cagan is an expert in product development and innovation methods for early stage product development. His research focuses on design cognition, computation, and practice. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed research publications, and the co-author of three books: Creating Breakthrough Products, Built to Love, and The Design of Things to Come. He is a Fellow of ASME.

Marco Cantamessa

Marco Cantamessa is a Professor at the Department of Management and Production Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches Management of Innovation and Product Development. He has had a number of lecturing appointments at other European universities and business schools such as EPFL, SIMT, and ESCP. He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred scientific papers, of which several have appeared in international refereed journals. He is a founding member of The Design Society, where he currently serves on the Advisory Board and is a member of INFORMS, PDMA, and SMS. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Design and has served on the Scientific Boards of a number of international conferences. Since 2008 he is President and CEO of I3P, one of the leading European university incubators. Since 2014 he is President of PNI Cube, the Italian association of university incubators.

Amaresh Chakrabarti

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 is Associate Editor, AI EDAM, Area Editor, Research in Engg Design, Regional Editor, Journal of Remanufacturing, and held Advisory Editorships for 9 International Journals. 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). Seven of his papers won top paper awards in international conferences.

Lin-Lin Chen

Lin-Lin Chen is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Commercial Design at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) and Chair of Design and Realization of Intelligent Systems at the faculty of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. She received a BS degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and a PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She was Dean of the College of Design at NTUST from 2004 to 2010, President of the Chinese Institute of Design from 2007 to 2008, and convener for the arts (and design) area committee of Taiwan’s National Science Council from 2009 to 2011. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Design (SCI, SSCI, AHCI), Vice President of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), and Fellow of the Design Research Society. Her research focuses on product aesthetics, design innovation, interactive interface design, and geometric algorithms.

Wei Chen

Wei Chen, PhD, is the Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design at Northwestern University, USA. She is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Chair of the research faculty council of the Segal Design Institution. Dr. Chen received her PhD in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1995), her MS from University of Houston (1992), and BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China (1988). She is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. She co-authored the book “Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design”, Springer 2013. She is a review editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and served twice as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Dr. Chen was the recipient of NSF Faculty Early Career Award, ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal achievement award, and SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational award.

John Clarkson

John Clarkson is Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Healthcare Systems at Delft Technical University. He is also Director of the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre and Co-Director of Cambridge Public Health. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and PhD in electrical machines from the University of Cambridge and an honorary doctorate from KU Leuven. As well as publishing over 800 papers, he has written and edited a number of books on medical equipment design, inclusive design, and process management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Engineering Designers, and an international member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Fred Feinberg

Fred M. Feinberg is Handleman Professor and Department Chair of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, and Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan. He earned SB degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy and a doctorate in Quantitative Marketing, all from MIT, and was previously on the faculties of Duke University and the University of Toronto. His work focuses on using statistical models to explain complex decision patterns, particularly involving issues in Product Design Optimization, using methods from discrete choice, behavioural decision theory, Bayesian econometrics, and dynamic programming. He is Departmental Editor at Production and Operations Management, former Co-Editor of Marketing Science, and Associate Editor at Journal of Marketing Research. With Tom Kinnear and Jim Taylor, he is the author of Modern Marketing Research: Concepts, Methods, and Cases. He currently serves as President of the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science.

Ashok Goel

Ashok K. 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 the Director of the School’s Design & Intelligence Laboratory and a Fellow of Georgia Tech's Brooke Byer's Institute for Sustainable Systems. For over thirty five years, Ashok has conducted research into artificial intelligence and cognitive science with a focus on computational design and creativity, especially analogical design and biologically inspired design. In 2014, he co-edited a volume on Biologically Inspired Design published by Springer-Verlag. From 2008 to 2018, he was a Co-Director of Georgia Tech's Center for Biologically Inspired Design, and from 2012 to 2017 he served on the Board of Directors of The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute. He has served on the Editorial Board of AIEDAM since 1997 including as an Associate Editor from 2011 to 2017. From 2015 to 2020, he was an Associate Editor of Design Society's Design Science Journal. He is a Fellow of AAAI and the Cognitive Science Society.

Sean Hanna

Sean Hanna, EngD, is Reader in Space and Adaptive Architectures at University College London, Director of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment’s MSc/MRes programs in Adaptive Architecture and Computation, and Academic Director of UCL’s Doctoral Training Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation. He is a member of the UCL Space Group, noted as one of the UK’s highest performing research groups in the field of architecture and the built environment in the last two consecutive UK Research Assessment Exercises. 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 optimization techniques for the design and fabrication of structures, and he maintains close design industry collaboration with world leading architects and engineers (e.g. Foster + Partners), artists (e.g. Antony Gormley) and technology producers (e.g. Bentley Systems).

Yong Se Kim

Yong Se Kim is a Professor of Product Service System Design, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science in the Design Division of Stanford University in 1990. He also received his MS degree at Stanford. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea in 1983. He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,1990 – 1997, and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997 – 2000 as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor, respectively. He was a Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, 2000 - 2021 and at the University of Turku, 2022 - 2024. Yong Se Kim has served the full 12 year term as a member of the Advisory Board (2011 - 2023) and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Product-Service Systems SIG at the Design Society.

Terry Knight

Anja Maier

Anja M Maier, PhD, is Professor of Engineering Systems Design and Head of Department Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and also at DTU-Technical University of Denmark, where she was Head of Engineering Systems Design, Department of Technology, Management and Economics. She holds a PhD degree in Engineering Design from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Master’s of Arts degree in political science, communication science, and philosophy. Her research focuses on engineering systems design, with a particular emphasis on complexity and human behaviour. This includes design communication, network-based modelling and analysis in design, and design cognition. Prof. Maier serves on the Board of Management of The Design Society, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Design, as Associate Editor of the journal Design Science, is a member of the International Council on Systems Engineering, a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, a Board member of the Copenhagen Center for Health Technology (Cachet), and a member of acatech - the National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany and a member of the ATV – the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, Denmark. She works in close collaboration with industry and public organisations, predominantly in cleantech and healthcare, and has worked as a technical consultant in the manufacturing and software industries.

Seda McKilligan

Chris McMahon

Chris McMahon, FDS, FIMechE, HonFIED is retired Professor of Engineering Design and part-time Senior Teaching Fellow and Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol. After an early career in the railway and automotive industries, Chris’s academic career at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and the technical University of Denmark has involved a strong emphasis on design education and on research interests in computer-aided design, design methods and tools, information management, materials in design, and eco-design. He is co-author of CADCAM, Principles, Practice and Manufacturing Management (1992, 1998), editor of several research proceedings and author of a number of papers in conferences and journals. From 2010-13 he was President of the Design Society. He is a Fellow of the Design Society, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers and a member of the editorial boards of a number of design journals.

Yukari Nagai

Yukari Nagai is the Dean Professor at the School of Knowledge Science, Professor of the Research Center for Innovative Lifestyle, and Director of the Design Creativity Research Unit at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Chiba University and obtained her PhD in Computing Sciences from the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research interests are the “human aspect of creativity,” which includes cognition and morality, and the “social aspect of creativity,” which includes innovation, culture, and ethics. She believes that discussing the meanings of design will help clarify both aspects. Understanding people’s motivations in working with arts is a key model for her deep insights into design creativity. Currently, she is a Leader of the Special Interest Group of Design Creativity at The Design Society, an Advisory Board Member of the Design Society, a Fellow of Design Research Society, and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation (Taylor & Francis).

Don Norman

Don Norman is Distinguished Professor (emeritus) and Founder and first Director of the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego as well as co-founder and first chair of the Cognitive Science Department and prior to that, chair of Psychology. He has been a Vice President of Advanced Technology at Apple and an executive at HP. He is co-founder and principal of the Nielsen Norman group, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cognitive Science Society, ACM, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Design Research Society. He has served on numerous company boards, has honorary degrees from Delft, Padua, and San Marino, the lifetime achievement award from ACM’s Computer-Human Interaction group, and the President’s lifetime achievement award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has received the Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished service to design education from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1821, London, UK, the Design Guru Award from The Institute of Design, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur India. He is currently an advisor and honorary Professor of Design at Tongji University (Shanghai) and on the Advisory board for the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytech. He was a distinguished visiting professor at the Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) for three years. He has published 20 books translated into 20 languages including Emotional Design and Design of Everyday Things. His book “Four Design Maxims to Change the World” will be published in mid to late 2022.

Yoram Reich

Yoram Reich is the Engineering Design and Systems Engineering Chaired Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University. He practiced engineering design for more than 7 years; he worked as a researcher or visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, and Stanford University. He served several years as a board member and two years as the Chair of the Israeli Chapter of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Coauthored and coedited four books on design, biomimicry, and sustainable communities, and more than 250 papers; he is Editor-in-Chief of Research in Engineering Design and senior editor/board member of eight additional academic journals. He heads Tel Aviv University, Systems Engineering Research Initiative, and the MSc Program in Systems Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Reich is a co-founder and past co-chair of the Design Theory special interest group of the Design Society and a former member of its Advisory Board. Prof. Reich is an Honorary Fellow of INCOSE-IL, a Fellow of the Design Research Society, and a member of the Design Society and INCOSE.

Stephan Rudolph

Kristi Schmidt Bauerly

Kristi E. S. Bauerly, PhD, is a human factors engineer on Apple Inc.’s Industrial Design team in Cupertino, California. She holds a B.S.E. degree in industrial engineering with a focus in human factors from The University of Iowa and M.S.I.E. and PhD degrees in industrial and operations engineering specializing in ergonomics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 2006, she has worked with the industrial design team at Apple to optimize hardware user experience.

Colleen Seifert

Colleen M. Seifert, PhD, is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Institute for Social Research. She received a BA degree in psychology from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, and MS, MPhil, and PhD degrees in psychology from Yale University. She completed the interdisciplinary Cognitive Science graduate program at Yale, combining psychology and computer science. She has co-authored the textbook Learn Psychology (2013). She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and past president and executive officer of the international Cognitive Science Society. She was the recipient of an American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Spencer Foundation Fellowship from the National Academy of Education, and a University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award. She is currently the chair of the interdisciplinary Design Science graduate program at the University of Michigan.

Steven Smith

Steven M. Smith is a Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University, and is one of the founding members of the Creative Cognition group there. Dr. Smith's interdisciplinary work, which bridges his research on creative cognition with creative engineering design, business, patent law, and computer science, has dealt with creative conceptual design in engineering, and with information discovery in computer science, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation. He has given invited addresses on creative cognition research around the world, including England, France, Spain, Ireland, Colombia, The Netherlands, Japan, and China. His experimental work on context-dependent memory influenced memory enhancement techniques that are used forensically to enhance eyewitness memory, and he has served as an expert on eyewitness memory in numerous legal cases. Dr. Smith is the author of more than 100 articles in cognitive psychology, and his books include Creative Cognition: Theory, Research, and Applications (1992), The Creative Cognition Approach (1995), Creativity and the Mind: Discovering the Genius Within (1995), and Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes (1997).

Mitchell TSENG

Mitchell M. Tseng is the Chair Professor and Director of Advanced Manufacturing Institute at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also holds faculty appointments in MIT Zaragoza Logistics Center and School of Design, China Academy of Arts. He started his career in developing key enabling manufacturing technologies for computer industry, some of which, including the diamond machining for polygons in laser printers, are still widely used. He has been working closely with industry with more than 100 projects to help companies upgrading product design and manufacturing capabilities. He published more than 200 scholarly papers, case studies, and three books. He is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Production Research (CIRP), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES). He is the recipient of LEAD Award from SME, Franz Edelman Laureate (INFORMS), and Outstanding Industrial Engineer (Purdue). He and Prof. Frank Piller co-founded International Mass Customization and Personalization Conference, a premium bi-annual international conference bringing together academic and industry leaders in the field.

Pieter Vermaas

Sandro Wartzack

Kristin Wood

Dr. Kristin L. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During the 1997-98 academic year, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design & Manufacturing Division at The University of Texas at Austin. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Director of the Manufacturing and Design Laboratory (MaDLab) and MORPH Laboratory. After UT Austin, Dr. Wood was the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, a Professor of Engineering and Product Development (EPD, epd.sutd.edu.sg), founding EPD Head of Pillar, and Co-Director of the SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC, idc.sutd.edu.sg) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD, sutd.edu.sg). Dr. Wood Dr. Wood has published more than 500 refereed articles and books, has received more than 100 national and international awards in design, research, and education, consulted with more than 100 companies (MNCs, SMEs, and startups) and government organizations on Design Innovation and Design Thinking, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Maria Yang

Maria Yang is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and is founder and director of the Ideation Lab (ideation.mit.edu). Her research centers on the understanding the impacts of preliminary, ambiguous phases of the design process of both products and complex engineered systems. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the American Society of Engineering Education Merryfield Design Award. She earned her SB from MIT, her MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Yang previously served as Director of Design at Reactivity, a Silicon Valley startup now a part of Cisco Systems.

Bernard Yannou

Bernard Yannou, PhD, is a Professor of Design and Industrial Engineering in Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP). Deputy-director of Industrial Engineering Lab., he is in charge of the IE M. S. and the last-year Innovative System Design & Development curriculum. He holds a M. S. in mechanical engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENSC), a M. S. of computer Science from Paris-6 University and a PhD from ENSC. He conducted research for a number of industrial companies: Dassault Systemes, Renault, Schlumberger, Johnson Controls, Airbus, Eurocopter, Safran, Bouygues Construction, Schneider Electric. He coordinated eight textbooks in French language on design and innovation of industrial products. He is member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society, member of the ASME and Associate Editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design and Int. Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation. Areas of interest: design automation, innovation engineering, eco-design.