Hi! I’m a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Mechanical Engineering department at UC Berkeley. I’m advised by Prof. Kosa Goucher-Lambert in the Co-Design Lab, where I do research on sustainability and human-centered design processes, helping enable designers to apply sustainability principles in the early stages of design. I am affiliated with the Berkeley Institute of Design and am generously supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. More broadly, I am interested in the intersection of design methods, environmental sustainability, and AI tools.
Previously, I received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, where I worked on ocean acidification research with Dr. Carolina Bastidas at the MIT Sea Grant.
Below you can find my published research projects.
Empowering designers to create life cycle informed products: heuristics for extracting insights from LCA reports
Nicole Goridkov, Ye Wang, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Design Science. (2025).
Data-Driven Sustainable Design Opportunities from Automated User Insights
Nicole Goridkov, Zhe Wee Ng, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Proceedings of ASME IDETC. (2025).
Harnessing digital vs physical design for sustainable behavior strategies: A review
Nicole Goridkov and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Proceedings of the ICED Conference. (2025).
What’s in this LCA Report? A Case Study on Harnessing Large Language Models to Support Designers in Understanding Life Cycle Reports
Nicole Goridkov, Ye Wang, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Proceedings of CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering. (2024).
Challenges in Extracting Insights from Life Cycle Assessment Documents During Early Stage Design
Nicole Goridkov, Kelly Ye, Ye Wang, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Proceedings of the ICED conference. (2023).
Embedding experiential design knowledge in interactive knowledge graphs
Ye Wang, Nicole Goridkov, Vivek Rao, Dixun Cui, Daniele Grandi, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Journal of Mechanical Design. (2023).
Capturing designers’ experiential knowledge in scalable representation systems: a case study of knowledge graphs for product teardowns
Nicole Goridkov, Vivek Rao, Dixun Cui, Daniele Grandi, Ye Wang, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. Proceedings of ASME IDETC. (2022).