We are excited to welcome new PhD students Juliana Covarrubias and Douglas McGowan to the Co-Design Lab. Juliana joins the lab from MIT, where she completed her BS in Mechanical Engineering and Design in 2024. Douglas joins from Penn State University, where he completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2025. Welcome!

We also say goodbye to our postdoctoral scholar, Gaëlle Baudoux. Gaëlle worked on several projects relating to idea generation, analogical stimuli, and Generative AI. Good luck on your exciting future endeavors!

Members of the Co-Design Lab attended the 2025 International Conference on Engineering Design in Dallas, Texas this past week. Along with presenting their work, Elisa, Nicole, Gaëlle, and Kosa were able to meet many wonderful engineering design researchers from different countries, attend interesting talks, and visit Texas icon Buc-ee’s!

Our group is excited to present several papers at the ASME IDETC ‘25 conference! We plan to see everyone in person in Anaheim!

Simulating Design Theory Using LLM Agents: A Case Study of C-K Theory
Authors: Kevin Ma, Eric Reynolds Brubaker, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Human-Gen AI Co-Design: Exploring Factors Impacting Trust Calibration
Authors: Chenjun Guo, Antoni Borghini, Kosa Goucher-Lambert, and Gaëlle Baudoux

Data-Driven Sustainable Design Opportunities from Automated User Insights
Authors: Nicole Goridkov, Zhe Wee Ng, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert

RECALL-MM: A Multimodal Dataset of Consumer Product Recalls for Risk Analysis using Computational Methods and Large Language Models
Authors: Diana Bolaños, Mohammadmehdi Ataei, Daniele Grandi, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Our group is excited to present several papers at the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED) ‘25! We will see everyone in person in Dallas!

Multimodal generative AI for conceptual design: Enabling text-based and sketch-based human-AI conversations
Authors: Gaëlle Baudoux, Chenjun Guo, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Generating Preinventive Structures: AI-Driven Creativity in Product Repurposing
Authors: Elisa Kwon and Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Harnessing digital vs physical design for sustainable behavior strategies: A review
Authors: Nicole Goridkov and Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Kosa was awarded a 2025 Berkeley Collegium Grant for Building Teaching and Research Connections. The project is titled “Reimagining Human-Centered Design through AI Expeditions” and will help develop a new course in which traditional human-centered design education is augmented by AI methods and tools.