Gerd Kortuem

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

I build and study agentic AI for sustained human-AI collaboration.

I develop experimental systems where people and AI work together over many steps and many months - especially in design, education, and research.

Agentic Design

Agentic design. Can agentic AI tackle complex, ill-defined design briefs? 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.

Building with AI

Co-teaching with AI. I am building a set of AI experts that advise and collaborate with me on course planning, didactics, writing, and lecturing. Together we develop and deliver courses such as Intelligent Products and Generative AI and Design.
Diagnosing AI risk in education. How robust is teaching when students use AI throughout the learning process? I develop agentic systems to investigate how hidden AI use affects education and assessments.

Personal AI Practice

Studying my own 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.
Writing and publishing with AI. I am trying to develop a sustained writing and publishing practice with AI.

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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