Derek Lomas recently assumed a position as a professor at the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft) in the Netherland. He teaches courses in industrial design engineering, industrial design, as well as design aesthetics. Prior to joining TUDelft, Lomas spent two years as a postdoctoral scholar and Design Fellow in the Design Lab at UC San Diego, an interdisciplinary research center bridging the theory and practice of design. He used large-scale experiments in online learning products to test scientific theories of learning, and investigated the design of artificial-intelligence systems to nurture human intelligence.  Starting in 2009, Lomas was a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2014 with a dissertation on “Optimizing Motivation and Learning with Large-Scale Game Design Experiments.” Earlier, Lomas completed his MFA in Social Design at UC San Diego.  Since 2012, Lomas has also been CEO, Chief Learning Scientist and co-founder of Playpower Labs, based in San Diego. The company helps education companies create next-generation learning products based on cognitive science, machine learning and human-centered design. Earlier in his career, Derek Lomas did an internship with Qualcomm, Inc., in its Mumbai R&D office in India, where he conducted urban and rural ethnographic design research for a project on the mobile phone as first computer. His research was used to develop new wireless prototypes designed consumers at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’. Lomas is currently at work on a book about harmony as a design principle.