Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Kosa Goucher-Lambert is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as Associate Director of M.Des at the Jacobs Institute and is an Affiliate Faculty member at both the Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation and the Berkeley Institute of Design. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Occidental College (2011) and M.S./Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2014, 2017).

His research investigates engineering design decision-making through mathematical analyses, computational modeling, human cognitive studies, and neuroimaging. Key focus areas include sustainable design, analogical reasoning, creativity methodologies, preference modeling, and crowdsourcing applications in product development. His 2023 Amazon Research Award project (LCAssist) targets life-cycle-informed sustainable design systems.

Major Awards & Fellowships:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• ASME Design Theory & Methodology Best Paper Award (2014)
• Excellence in Design Science Award (2019)
• 2023 Amazon Research Award (Sustainability)

He teaches courses on integrated product development addressing socio-technical challenges and leads the Co-Design Lab. No student advisees or publication details are listed in the source material.