Vice Dean, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University

Vice President, International Council of Design (ICoD)

Vice Dean, Tsinghua Qingdao Academy of Arts and Sciences

Director, Institute of Health and Medical Industry Innovation Design, Tsinghua University

Secretary-General, Design Teaching Steering Committee, Ministry of Education

Prof. Chao Zhao specializes in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural design research and innovation, integrating culture, technology, aesthetics, and business through design innovation to realize the social attributes, human-centered experiences, and sustainable development of design. He co-established the Global Innovation Design Joint Graduate Program with the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, which won the First Prize in Graduate Teaching Awards.

He has published 9 academic monographs and textbooks in Chinese and English and has presented over 100 papers and keynote speeches at major international design research conferences. His design projects have won numerous prestigious awards, including the Red Dot Design Award, China Good Design Gold Award, Red Star Design Award, National Fine Arts Exhibition Excellence Award, China Emergency Rescue Innovation Design Gold Award, and National Key New Product Award.

Yuhan Liu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Media Arts, School of Design, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Master's Thesis Supervisor; Visiting Scholar at Harvard University sponsored by the Chinese government. She has led projects funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education, sub-topics of China's National Key R&D Program, sub-topics of national science and technology special projects, and Hubei Province Social Science projects. He has participated in several key projects including the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation for Art Studies, the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences projects, and Hubei Province's Key R&D Plan. She has published more than 20 high-level academic papers in journals indexed by SCI/SSCI/CSSCI and authored one monograph. He has made remarkable progress in cultural digitization, generative artificial intelligence design, and human-computer interaction. He is a recipient of multiple awards, including the Wang Xuan News Science and Technology Award and the Wuhan Social Sciences Award, and has guided students to win over 50 provincial and national design competition awards.

Anshu Hu, Intelligent Science & Technology Engineer at Wuhan University of Technology's Digital Communication Engineering Research Center, 2024 "Summer Capital Elite" Talent of Xining, has led Chinese National Key R&D Program and contributed to AI-powered cultural tourism and art digitization projects across Tibet, Hubei, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia. She holds multiple SCI and Chinese SSCI core journal publications, invention patents, and prestigious awards such as the Chinese National Third Prize of Wang Xuan News Technology Award (2023), Italy’s A’ Design Silver Medal (2024) and NY Product Design Silver Medal (2024). Her design works have been exhibited in institutions from China’s National Handicraft Museum to galleries in London, Paris, and Milan, featured in media like Harper’s Bazaarand The Guardian.

Vice Director of Modern Industrial Design Research Institute