Gerd Kortuem

Professor at TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.

I work on agentic engineering for sustained human-AI collaboration in design.

Design

Agentic design. Can autonomous design agents tackle complex, ill-defined design briefs? I am developing long-horizon agents and testing them against real design problems with ambiguous goals.
Benchmarking agentic design. How does an AI agent's design process compare with human design practice? I am developing ways to capture and analyse the sequence of design moves an agent makes and evaluate the quality of its output.

Education

Co-developing education with AI. I built and use agentic workflows for planning, developing, testing, and delivering university coursework, treating teaching materials like software.
Diagnosing AI risk in education. I develop agentic systems to investigate how hidden AI use by students affects education and assessments.

Practice

Auto-ethnography of AI collaboration. I use AI to analyse my own long-term collaboration with AI over weeks and months, to understand how design decisions emerge and how my working relationship with AI evolves.
Writing and publishing with AI. I am experimenting with AI to develop a sustained practice for writing and communicating my work.

I teach Intelligent Products and Generative AI and Design. I am trying to understand what design becomes when humans and AI work together over the long term.

Interested in any of this? Email me at g.w.kortuem@tudelft.nl.