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Gerd Kortuem

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

PhD candidates and master students I have supervised at TU Delft.

PhD Candidates

5 current, 8 completed.

Current

2023Hosana Morales. (topic in development)
2023James Broadhead. (topic in development)
2023Tianhao He. (topic in development)
2024Shatha Degachi. (topic in development)
2025Rachel Chen. AI-Mediated Knowledge Discovery for Design Education

Completed

2026Wo Meijer. 360° Video for Design, by Design
2025Yunzhong Zhou. Perceived Appropriateness: A Novel View for Resolving Inappropriate Robot Behavior in Socially-Aware Navigation
2025Di Yan. Pair Sensemaking of Personal Data
2024Alejandra Gomez Ortega. Sensitive Data Donation
2024Roos Teeuwen. Measuring children's access to urban greenspace
2024Kars Alfrink. Contestable Artificial Intelligence
2020Maximilian Wegner. Seat Comfort Objectification
2020Peter Kun. Design Inquiry Through Data

Master Theses

56 graduated, 2016–2026.

2026
J.B.D. Boumans. Designing a Human-Computer System for Systematic Learning in Bacterial Cellulose Production
E.E. Furia. MAIK: Modular Artificial Intelligence Kit
X. Zhou. Designing Surgeon-AI Interface Systems for Intraoperative Tumour Removal Assessment
2025
Y. Li. Designing Multi-Agent AI Dialogue for Post-Conflict Emotional Reflection: Breaking Rumination Patterns in Young Adults
S.D. Rasoga. Digitizing the Future of High Engineering
B.C. Hong. AI for AI: Exploring the Use of LLM Chatbots for AI Compliance
J.A. Spaanderman. Exploring Multi-Agent Systems for Request for Proposals
K.D. Chopade. Reimagining Type 1 Diabetes Care
R.B. Jung. Towards Environmental Sustainability of GenAI
2024
Luc Verduijn. DESIGNING TOMORROW - The impact of generative AI on the Strategic Design Process
F.M. Jocker. Mindful Power
2023
P.R. Patalay. Innovaiting Responsibly
H. SUN. Design for Responsible Use of Surveillance Cameras in Public Space
L.J.C. van der Jagt. Social Navigation
T. Silluzio. Computational Design in Industrial Design: An Initial Investigation
H.C. Hasenaar. The sustainable last mile
2022
J. Hogerheijde. A blueprint to Monitor and Evaluate the impact of sustainability solutions in redevelopment projects of the public space
M.T. Puglia. Seamless Mobility
A. Esquinas Buenache. Tools and Brokers: Implementing the Innovation Ecosystem at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
K.R.J. Callebaut. CombinaTorch - Creating a Multi-Task, Multi-Dataset Framework for Deep Learning
M.I. Jimenez Lluva. Delft Inclusive Design: A platform to grow awareness and provide resources for IDE faculty in order to promote an inclusive design perspective
I. Jimenez Arroyo. Development of a product that uses 3D Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to bridge the gap between the digital and physical world
2021
C. Yeh. Exploring the design space for Wellbeing in the context of digital experience
C. Li. Feel data: Public data visualization as a medium to motivate data donation
Ellard Volmer. Artificial intelligence in local governmental agencies
2020
Siddharth Daswani. Responsible Technologies in Public Spaces
Hosana Morales Ornelas. Bo
Paloma Esquivel Duran. Empowering smart city residents through legibility
Xin Guo. Design of a data supported care planning process
Anindya Paramaarti. LIVEsense: A Continuous and Collaborative Goal Setting System using Sensor Data for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Patients
Winnie Chen. Improving Shared Understanding with Hart
B. Bao. Designing Energy Partnership between Users and Intermittently Powered Device
2019
Dima Politin. Active wheelchair
Clement Heinen. Creating liveable cities by democratising streets
Yasaman Mavvaj. Ambient Lighting Design for Persuasive Environments
Himanshu Shah. Development of an attention test using the VitalSky
Nien-Hua Gu. Digitalization of Retailing with Machine Learning
Silvio Hochuli. Innovation in Internet of Things
Haotian Gong. IPS as a tool for designing to improve the care for people with dementia
Dhaval Shah. A Day in a Wheelchair
Ruben Baldewsing. A lighting infrastructure for data visualisation
2018
Songshan Liu. The quantified wheelchair
Tom Eigenraam. Design for Learning
Lizzy Berendsen. A design framework for city-wide open data displays with connected bikes
Joric Koghee. Designing a data enabled product to support daily cooking practices
Steve Jonk. Regaining Control
Juline Wilkinson. A data driven lighting design for a 3D printed bridge
Laurien Albeda. Pass the ball: Designing accountability into the socio-technical context of algorithmic systems
Guillermo Marquez Alvarado. Sensory Augmentation by means of Wearable Technology
2017
Joeri de Graaf. Connecting Swapfiets
Diana Gonzalez Sanchez. Internet of Things for Circular Economy
Anna Lena van Iersel. Interpretzel - redesigning the web analytics workflow
Karthik Mahadevan Karthik. Envision
Eline Koelman. Creating an effective peer-to-peer alarm network in social housing neighbourhoods for Homies
O. van Nieuwmegen. QuantiFire Smart Technology for Future Firefighters
2016
T.L. Ruedisulj. Innovation Continuity in an IT Incubator

Theses link to the TU Delft repository.