Derek Lomas

Derek Lomas is an assistant professor of Positive AI at TU Delft, working on bridging Human-Centered Design and Artificial Intelligence.

Founder of three ed-tech companies reaching 5M+ students, and builder of Source Library — an open archive of 41,927 historical texts with 17,159 new English translations.

  • 75+
    publications
  • 1,500+
    citations
  • 5M+
    students reached
  • 41,927
    rare texts digitized
  • 17,159
    new translations

Recent work

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Earth Love

Every cloud on Earth, as five weather satellites saw it, ten minutes at a time, on a globe you can turn and play back.

Design

Quantum Resonance

Interactive art exhibit shown at UNESCO for the International Year of Quantum. Uses cymatics — visible sound vibrations — to make quantum physics tangible through resonant standing waves and interference patterns.

Esoteric

Source Library

41,927 historical texts in 114 languages, 17,159 translated into English — the largest open archive of Hermetic, alchemical, and pre-modern scientific writing.

Design

LANDSHAPES

AI-generated landscape art installation for climate exhibitions. Morphing photorealistic landscapes that never existed, sparking wonder about climate change.

Research

NeuroAesthetic Resonance

EEG-based cybernetic aesthetic experience exploring neural correlates of beauty and resonance through real-time brainwave feedback.

Research

Quantum Vibecoding

AI as the interface between humans and quantum. AI agents replicated 6 landmark quantum papers on 3 real chips through natural language — 93% of claims held, with zero quantum code written by hand.

Design

Envision Glasses

AI-powered smartglasses for the visually impaired with text recognition, face recognition, and remote sighted-person assist. Student: Ferkan Metin.

AI

Smart Paper

AI for paper assessments by EdOptimize. Computer vision turns hand-completed worksheets into instant feedback — reaching 5+ million students across India.

Design

Resonance Pod

Enclosed environment using warm pulsing lights, soft vibrations, and music to reset breathing rhythms. Exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2020.

Currently

September 2026

Positive AI at TU Delft

Designing AI systems that promote wellbeing — supervising PhD work on aesthetic alignment, EEG-based meditation feedback, and AI-as-design-research-instrument.

MakeMode

Building a sovereign AI coding agent on European infrastructure, so anyone in a school, lab or company can turn an idea into working software.

Earth Love

A globe of every cloud on Earth, as five weather satellites saw it, ten minutes at a time.

Source Library

Expanding the open archive of pre-1700 Hermetic, alchemical, and natural-magic texts. Recent translations: Rithmomachia, the Philosopher's Stone literature, first-translated works.

Writing & Lab

Long-form essays on building with AI, plus interactive Three.js experiments — most recently a GPU ocean-current simulator and an animated Sankey of 280 years of occult publishing.

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