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John Gero is an Australian educator, scientist and author. He is a research professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study of George Mason University.

Background

Gero was born on December 21, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary; the son of Emery Imre and Helene Gero. He arrived in Australia in 1948.

Education

Gero received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering from the University of New South Wales in 1965. A year later he earned his master's degree in Building Sciences from the University of Sydney. Also in 1974, John was given a Ph.D. from the same university.

Career

Gero began his career as a lecturer and then an associate professor of architectural science at the University of Sydney in 1966. From 1985 he was a professor of design science at that university. Also John held the position of a co-director at Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney.

He was a visiting professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation or Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University California Berkeley and Los Angeles, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, Loughborough University and at INSA Lyon.

Nowadays Gero works as a research professor in computer science and architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. In addition, he is a research professor in the Department of Computational Social Science at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study of George Mason University.

Achievements

  • Gero received the Harkness Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships and two SRC Fellowships. He is the author or co-editor of 50 books and over 650 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science.

Works

All works

Membership

John Gero is a fellow of the Institution Australian Engineers and Royal Society Arts, as well as a member of numerous professional organizations.

Interests

  • travelling

Connections

Father:
Emery Imre

Mother:
Helene Gero