Gerd Kortuem

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

I build and study agentic AI for sustained human-AI collaboration in design, education, and research.

Current Projects

Agentic design. Can agentic AI tackle complex, ill-defined design problems? I am developing long-horizon agents and testing them against real design problems with ambiguous goals. I want to understand whether AI can design, how it designs, and what that means for design as a practice.
Context-driven agentic systems. Can we build agentic AI systems entirely from natural language, with no coded workflow? I explore systems where the instructions, standards, and constraints are written in plain language, and behaviour emerges from interpretation.
Co-developing education with AI. Can we develop and teach a course with a team of AI agents? I work with specialised AI agents on course planning, didactics, writing, and lecturing, and study the impact on my teaching.
Understanding Human-AI collaboration. What happens when humans and AI work together over weeks and months? I use AI to analyse my long-term working relationship with AI, to understand how my working and collaboration practices evolve over time.

I teach agentic AI and design at TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.

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

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