Online: MIE Distinguished Seminar Series with Professor Ashok Goel: “Biologically Inspired Design: Information-Processing Models and Computational Methods”

*ONLINE* 
April 1, 2022
Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the online seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca for the Zoom link.
Professor Ashok Goel – Georgia Institute of Technology (Intelligence Laboratory, School of Interactive Computing)
Biologically Inspired Design: Information-Processing Models and Computational Methods 
Abstract
Biologically inspired design is a promising paradigm for creative design as well as sustainable design. Nevertheless, transforming the paradigm into a repeatable and scalable design methodology remains a challenge. I will describe the main results of fifteen years of research on biologically inspired from cognitive and computational perspectives. The products of this research include both information-processing models and computational methods for design thinking, systems thinking, and analogical thinking in biologically inspired design.
Biography
Ashok Goel is a Professor of Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He conducts research into AI and cognitive science with a focus on computational design and especially biologically inspired design. 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 Institute. Ashok is a Fellow of AAAI and the Cognitive Science Society.