Speakers of Sub-Forum 07

Yixin Zou, female, PhD & Postdoctoral Fellow, Master Supervisor, is a Young Hundred Talents Category A Talent and Distinguished Associate Professor at Guangdong University of Technology, and Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of Technology. She is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London, UK, and Executive Deputy Editor of the journal Design for Augmented Humanity. She is Youth Committee Member & Program Committee Vice Chairman of Industrial Design Committee of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and Member of Brand Innovation and Packaging Design Committee of Guangdong Cosmetics Society. Her research directions include AI-assisted design, affective computing, digital fashion, sports equipment design, medical device design, and experience design.

Yanping Yuan, male, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, PhD in Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005; Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2008), is Party Secretary of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, and Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for Building Energy Efficiency and Green Building, co-built by the Ministry and Province. He was selected into the National High-level Talent Plan (2021), National Hundred Thousand Ten Thousand Talent Project (2019), National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions (2019), enjoys the Special Government Allowance of the State Council (2020), was selected as a New Century Excellent Talent of the Ministry of Education (2011), and Sichuan Provincial Academic and Technical Leader (2018). He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief and current Editor-in-Chief of Energy and Built Environment international journal (indexed by EI and Scopus), Field Editor of Journal of Thermal Science, Deputy Editor of Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Editorial Board Member of Renewable Energy, Editorial Board Member of Sustainable Cities and Society, and Deputy Editor of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. He is President of the International Society ISEBE, Vice President of the International Association IAQVEC, E2 Committee Member of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), Director of Chinese Association of Refrigeration, Member of Academic Committee, Member of Science Popularization Committee, Executive Director of Underground Space Branch of Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Director of Thermal Power Branch of Architectural Society of China, and Chairman of Sichuan Provincial Association of Refrigeration. He has presided over 33 national/provincial-level projects, including 1 key project and 4 general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published 175 SCI journal papers as first author/corresponding author, including 7 ESI highly cited papers and 1 ESI hot paper, with an H-index of 37.

Dr. Jin Ma graduated from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013 and is currently a Research Fellow and Publishing Platform Director at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. She is also Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Operations Editor of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation (published by Elsevier), and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Visual Art Practice (published by Taylor & Francis). Her learning and teaching experience in industrial design at Tongji University stimulated her interest in exploring fundamental questions about design, especially individual design experience in complex system design activities. Her research areas include design philosophy, design knowledge and methods, and design education. Currently, she focuses on new academic publishing forms serving design and the development trends of design disciplines. Her work on the publishing platform is dedicated to creating an academic publishing ecosystem centered on the She Ji journal, promoting emerging design theories and practices in frontier fields to more readers through publishing proceedings, translation series, and organizing academic conferences.

Kejun Zhang, PhD, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor (Design Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Technology, Electronic Information), is a Baosteel Excellent Teacher and Zhejiang Provincial Leading Talent Teaching Master. He currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Director of the Department of Intelligent Design, Zhejiang University, Vice Dean of the International Design Research Institute, and Executive Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Education and Teaching Research Center. He is also Director of the Design+X Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Virtual Teaching and Research Office (Ministry of Education pilot construction), Director of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Computer Technology and Engineering (Zhejiang University), and Director of the Organizing Committee of the China University Computer Competition - Mobile Application Innovation Competition. He has undertaken more than 10 projects including National Natural Science Foundation projects, major social science projects of the Ministry of Education, national culture and tourism science and technology innovation engineering projects, and national key research and development program projects related to innovative design knowledge service systems, virtual simulation support platforms for lunar exploration engineering aerospace missions, Hangzhou Asian Games Smart Asian Games One-stop Service, symbol music generation models, and artificial intelligence seal cutting software and hardware platforms. His achievements have been published or accepted by ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Science China-Information Science, Leonardo, Design Studies, The Design Journal, Chinese Journal of Computers, Decoration, etc. He has won the World Artificial Intelligence Conference Excellence Leading Product Award, the Second Prize of Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, and the Good Design Elite Award of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.

Lei Zhang, born in October 1981, is an Associate Professor and Master Supervisor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, and Director of the Institute of Modern Design and Engineering Innovation. He is Deputy Editor and Column Manager of the Journal of Machine Design, Editorial Board Member and Responsible Editor of the Journal of Tianjin University of Technology, Editorial Board Member of Advanced Design Research, and Review Expert of journals such as Industrial Engineering and Management, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Public Health. He is also Secretary-General of Tianjin Design Society, Director of Tianjin Mechanical Engineering Society, Expert Committee Member of China Good Design Award, and Deputy Director-General of Industrial Design Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. His main research directions include mechanical optimization design and human-machine system reliability design. He has presided over more than 10 national and provincial-level scientific research projects.

Yanli Huang, born in 1979, male, from Shuangliao, Jilin Province, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He studied at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy as a national-sponsored visiting scholar from 2013 to 2014. He is currently Vice Dean of the School of Home and Art Design, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Executive Editor-in-Chief of Furniture and Interior Decoration magazine, and person in charge of the Hunan Provincial Social Science Popularization Base (Chinese Traditional Home Culture Popularization Base). He is mainly engaged in research on furniture and home design theory and methods, and lighting design. He has presided over more than 20 national and provincial-level scientific research projects including National Social Science Fund Art projects, National Art Fund projects, and China Association for Science and Technology science popularization projects; published more than 60 academic papers, published 5 monographs and textbooks, and obtained 15 national invention patents and utility model patents; guided students to win more than 50 national and provincial-level design competition awards, presided over 7 National Furniture Graduation Design Works Competitions, and trained nearly 40 master students.

Cunshou Liang, Senior Editor and Director of Art Branch, Higher Education Press. For a long time, he has been fully responsible for the research and development of art books and resources of Higher Education Press, including fine arts, art design, music and dance, drama and film and television. He has been conducting strategic cooperation with top art universities across the country on teaching material research and development, teacher training, project application, book display and promotion. He has planned more than 60 planned teaching materials including the 11th Five-Year Plan, 12th Five-Year Plan, national resource sharing course teaching materials, national first-class course supporting teaching materials, and iCourse teaching materials, with 4 winning the first National Teaching Material Construction Award in the art category. In addition to his rich practical experience in the field of book research and development, he has also been engaged in research and teaching in art disciplines for a long time. He has presided over and participated in 8 national-level projects, and published more than 10 articles in journals such as Art Research. He is also Member of the Chinese Calligraphy Education Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, Master Supervisor of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Visiting Professor of Innovation Design Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Master Supervisor of School of Fine Arts of Hainan Normal University, Director of China Art Education Promotion Association, and Executive Director of Design Education Professional Committee of China Higher Education Society.

Yuan Feng, Associate Professor and Master Supervisor at the Department of Industrial Design, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (Cum Laude). Her research directions include intelligent interaction design, aging human-computer interaction, social robot interaction, and multimodal interaction. Her research field is the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Cognitive Engineering, dedicated to exploring, developing, and evaluating virtual-real integrated intelligent interactive technologies that can promote human cognitive performance (including attention, memory, presence, etc.) and emotional experience. She has published 1 monograph (first author) and more than 10 papers in international high-level journals and conferences (3 SCI-indexed international journal papers, 2 in JCR-Q1 zone). Her works have been selected and exhibited at the Dutch Design Week and DIA 2019 China Design Intelligence Award exhibition. She serves as a reviewer for SCI journals and conferences such as Int J Social Robotics, Int J Human-Computer Interaction, CHI, RO-MAN, ICSR, HAI, etc.