Researcher, Entrepreneur in Design AI.
Ling Fan is Professor in Design AI at Tongji University, founding director of its Design Artificial Intelligence Lab, and founder and chairman of Tezign. Trained as an architect at Princeton and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he studies the computability of creativity: how designers can shape AI itself and, through it, redesign systems and organizations. His research is carried into AI systems used by more than 200 enterprises and over one million professionals.
Current research · The Computability of Creativity
Subjective World Model
atypica.AI: a foundation model that simulates human behavior, decisions and feelingsCan a model represent people as they actually differ, in taste, judgment and story, rather than as an average?
02Creative Reasoning
A reasoning model that puts divergent thinking before convergent thinkingWhat would a reasoning model look like if its goal were to discover new possibilities rather than converge on one correct answer?
03Agentic Creativity
A long-horizon creative agentCan an agent take part in the whole arc of creative work, and extend what a team can imagine rather than automate it?
Entrepreneurship
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