Ming Cao, Dean, Professor, and Master's Supervisor of the School of Digital Technology & Innovation Design, Jiangnan University. He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from Wuxi University of Light Industry, and his master's and doctoral degrees from the School of Design, Jiangnan University. He serves as a specially invited individual council member of the China Industrial Design Association (CIDA), Deputy Secretary-General of the Design Research Professional Committee of CIDA, member of the Expert Working Committee of CIDA, council member of the Civil Aircraft Branch of CIDA, council member of the Automobile Industry Branch of CIDA, council member of the Rail Transit Branch of CIDA, Executive Council Member of the Jiangsu Province Industrial Design Association (JSIDA), and member of the Automobile Design Branch of China SAE. He is a Gold Award winner of the China Excellent Industrial Design Product Award, one of the Top Ten Educators in China's Design Industry, one of the Top Ten Outstanding Designers in China's Design Industry, a nominee for the Top Ten Outstanding Young People in China's Design Industry at the 2011 and 2013 Guanghua Longteng Awards, one of the Top Ten Prominent Figures in Industrial Design in Jiangsu Province, and a Jiangsu Zijin Cultural Talent. He has long been engaged in design education management and professional teaching, and has won two Second Prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award and one First Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Teaching Achievement Award. He has led or participated in multiple projects under the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, and the Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Program of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions. His personal works have won numerous core design awards at home and abroad, including the Gold Award of the China Excellent Industrial Design Award (the first national government award for industrial design), the Red Dot Concept Award, the iF Concept Award, and the Silver Award of the American IEDA Global Design Award.
曹鸣，江南大学数字科技与创意设计学院院长、教授、硕士生导师。本科毕业于无锡轻工大学工业设计专业，硕博毕业于江南大学设计学院。中国工业设计协会特邀个人理事、中国工业设计协会设计研究专业委员会副秘书长、中国工业设计协会专家工作委员会委员、中国工业设计协会民用飞机分会理事、中国工业设计协会汽车产业分会理事、中国工业设计协会轨道交通分会理事、江苏省工业设计学会常务理事、中国汽车工程学会汽车设计分会委员。中国优秀工业设计产品类奖金奖获得者、中国设计产业十佳教育工作者、中国设计产业十佳杰出设计师、2011年/2013年光华龙腾奖中国设计业十大杰出青年提名奖获得者、江苏省工业设计十佳推进人物、江苏紫金文化英才。长期从事设计教育管理与专业教学工作，获国家教学成果二等奖2项、江苏省教学成果一等奖1项，主持参与多项科技部国家重点研发计划项目、教育部人文社会科学基金项目、江苏省高校哲学社会科学研究项目。个人作品曾获得中国优秀工业设计奖金奖（工业设计首个国家政府奖）、红点概念奖、IF概念奖、美国IEDA全球银奖等多项国内外核心设计奖项。
Chen Zhu, Senior Director of Industrial Design at iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., and Secretary-General of the AI Branch of the China Industrial Design Association (CIDA). He is a recipient of the "iFLYTEK Star" Honorary Medal and a winner of the DDF Award · Top Ten Outstanding Young People in China's Design Industry. With 17 years of experience in design and management, he has long been committed to the research and practice of the "AI + Industrial Design" innovation paradigm. His career spans fields including home appliances, artificial intelligence, education, and healthcare. His design works have won honors such as the Gold Award of the China Light Industry Excellent Design Award, the Silver Award of the Red Star Design Award, and the Bronze Award of the American IDEA. He has also, on multiple occasions, achieved the international "Grand Slam" of the four major industrial design awards—Red Dot, iF, G-Mark, and IDEA—with a single work. He has participated in the drafting of more than ten standards, holds over 200 patents, and has received more than 50 major design awards at home and abroad. He has been invited to serve as a Talent Ambassador of the China Industrial Design Association, an external review expert for Design magazine, and a founding partner for the creation of Yantai as a "World Design Capital."
诸臣，科大讯飞股份有限公司工业设计高级总监，中国工业设计协会人工智能分会秘书长。"讯飞之星"荣誉奖章获得者，光华龙腾奖·中国设计业十大杰出青年。17年设计和管理经验，长期致力于"人工智能+工业设计"创新范式的研究与实践。职业生涯横跨家用电器、人工智能、教育医疗等领域。设计作品曾荣获中国轻工业优秀设计奖-金奖、红星奖-银奖、美国IDEA-铜奖等荣誉，并多次以单一作品同时囊括红点、iF、G-Mark、IDEA国际工业设计"四大满贯"记录。个人参与起草各类标准十余项、拥有专利200余项、获国内外设计大奖50余项。受邀担任中国工业设计协会人才大使、《设计》杂志外审专家、烟台"设计之都"创建合伙人。
Xinyuan Cai is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, an AI artist and digital light-and-shadow artist. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Design at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Distinguished Professor of Huazhong Excellence Scholars, Director of the Key Laboratory of Light and Shadow Interactive Service Technology (Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Director of the Hubei Engineering Research Center for Digital Light and Shadow Technology, Member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Animation and Digital Media of the Ministry of Education, Member of the Public Art Committee of the China Artists Association, Member of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the CPPCC, and Wuhan City Partner.
He has long been engaged in teaching and research in digital media art theory and education, AI art and creative design, digital light-and-shadow cultural tourism scenarios, and public new media landscapes. He has led more than 20 research projects, including major national cultural industry development projects, key projects of the National Social Science Fund of China (Art), the National Cultural Science and Technology Innovation Project, the National Science and Technology Support Program, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education. He has received honors such as China Design Person of the Year and the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. He has also led his team to complete a number of major national, provincial, and municipal cultural and technological integration projects, including the "Glorious Hubei" float for the 70th National Day celebration, the light and shadow show at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and the Yangtze River light show in Wuhan.
蔡新元，教授、博士生导师，中组部国家特聘专家，人工智能艺术家，数字光影艺术家；现任华中科技大学设计学院院长，华中卓越学者特聘教授，光影交互服务技术文旅部重点实验室主任，数字光影技术湖北省工程研究中心主任，教育部动画数字媒体专业教学指导委员会委员，中国美术家协会公共艺术艺委会委员，武汉市政协委员，武汉城市合伙人。长期从事数字媒体艺术理论与教育，人工智能艺术与创意设计，数字光影文旅场景与公共新媒体景观等领域的教学和研究工作。先后主持了国家文化产业发展重大专项，国家社科基金艺术学重点项目，国家文化科技创新工程，国家科技支撑计划，教育部人文社科基金等科研项目20余项；获中国设计年度人物、湖北省科技进步奖等荣誉。并带领团队先后完成了国庆70周年"光耀湖北"彩车，北京天安门广场光影秀，武汉长江灯光秀等多项国家、省、市重大文化与科技融合工程等。
Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and vice-dean of the School of Animation and Digital Arts, Communication University of China; Ph.D. in Radio and Television Arts. Her main research areas include television art aesthetics, digital media art aesthetics, and animation aesthetics. Her representative monograph Documentation and Interpretation: The Essence of Television Art Aesthetics won the First Prize of the Scientific Research Project of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television in 2004. She is also the author of Reconstructing Aesthetics: The Nature of Digital Media Art and other academic monographs. She participated in the completion of "The Establishment and Practice of an Undergraduate Program Integrating Art and Technology," which won the First Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award. In 2016, she was honored with the title of "Beijing Municipal Pioneer of Teacher Ethics." As the head of the Communication University of China for the "CAMPUS Asia" program, she presides over the China-Japan-Korea Animation Education Alliance cooperation.
贾秀清，中国传媒大学动画与数字艺术学院副院长、教授、博士生导师，广播电视艺术学博士，主要研究方向为电视艺术美学、数字媒体艺术美学及动画美学。代表著作《纪录与诠释：电视艺术美学本质》获2004年国家广电总局科研项目一等奖，另著有《重构美学：数字媒体艺术本性》等学术专著。参与完成"艺术与技术结合的本科专业的创建与实践"获国家级教育教学成果一等奖。2016年荣获"北京市师德先锋"称号。作为"亚洲校园计划"中国传媒大学负责人主持中日韩动画教育联盟合作。
Yangyang Song, Ph.D. in Economics from Renmin University of China, is a Distinguished Professor at Hunan University and a member of the Jiusan Society. He currently serves as Vice President (presiding over daily operations) of the Creative Industry Technology Research Institute, Renmin University of China, Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Cultural Brand Evaluation Technology, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and concurrently Vice President of the Beijing Dongcheng Cultural Development Research Institute. His main research areas include the integration of culture and technology and cultural industry studies. He has led more than 70 research projects commissioned by central ministries and commissions, including the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has served as editor-in-chief of several academic works, including Strategic Research Report on the Integration of Culture and Technology in China and Report on the Development of Cultural Consumption and Investment in China, and has published dozens of papers in core journals such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Statistics & Decision, and Science and Technology Management Research. As project leader, he presided over the formulation of cultural and tourism development plans for the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plan periods in Sichuan Province, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Chengdu Municipality, and other provinces and municipalities.
宋洋洋，中国人民大学经济学博士，湖南大学特聘教授，九三学社社员。现任中国人民大学创意产业技术研究院副院长（主持工作），文化品牌评测技术文化和旅游部重点实验室副主任，兼任北京东城文化发展研究院副院长。主要研究方向为文化科技融合、文化产业研究，主持中宣部、文化和旅游部、科技部等中央部委课题七十余项，主编《中国文化和科技融合战略研究报告》、《中国文化消费投资发展报告》等学术著作多部，在《人民日报》、《光明日报》、《统计与决策》、《科技管理研究》等核心期刊发表论文数十篇，作为课题负责人主持编制了四川省、内蒙古自治区、新疆维吾尔自治区、成都市等多个省市"十三五"、"十四五"文化和旅游发展规划。
Xu Jiang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, is Dean of the School of Design, East China Normal University, and a Distinguished Oriental Scholar of Shanghai. He formerly served as Vice Dean of the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. He is Director of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Deputy Director of China Good Design Award Committee, Deputy Secretary-General of China Innovation Design Industry Strategy Alliance, Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the World Green Design Organization (WGDO), Deputy Director of the Industrial Design Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Deputy Director of the Mechanical History Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Member of the Technical Innovation Committee of the Innovation Method Research Society of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Expert of Strategic Consulting Research of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has won the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the Special Prize of Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award, the Guanghua Longteng Award China Design Industry Top Ten Outstanding Youth, and the Outstanding Contributor to Innovation Design. He focuses on research in embodied intelligent interaction, innovation design strategy and design education, and has proposed theories such as analogical design and spatio-temporal knowledge phenomenology for future industrial innovation.
徐江，教授、博士生导师，华东师范大学设计学院院长，上海市东方学者特聘教授。曾担任同济大学设计创意学院副院长。兼任中国机械工程学会理事、中国好设计奖委员会副主任、中国创新设计产业战略联盟副秘书长、世界绿色设计组织WGDO学术委员会副主任、中国机械工程学会工业设计分会副主任委员、中国机械工程学会机械史分会副主任委员、科技部创新方法研究会技术创新专委会委员、中国工程院战略咨询研究专家等。荣获国家教学成果奖二等奖、上海市教学成果特等奖、光华龙腾奖"中国设计业十大杰出青年"、"推进创新设计事业杰出贡献者"等荣誉。专注于具身智能交互、创新设计战略、设计教育方面研究，面向未来产业创新提出类身设计、时空-知识现象学等理论。