ABOUT
Designer and researcher with years of experience in industrial/product design, graphic design, and user experience. Skilled in design, research and analysis. Familiar with 2D and 3D software, including SolidWorks, Rhino, Keyshot, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe XD. Passionate about teaching as well, having teaching experience in higher education in the UK and the US, supporting a variety of courses around design, product design and industrial design.
Graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Industrial Design in November of 2019.
Currently studying at Loughborough University as a PhD student, focusing on the areas of design intervention, behaviour change, cooking behaviour and healthy diet.
Graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Industrial Design in November of 2019.
Currently studying at Loughborough University as a PhD student, focusing on the areas of design intervention, behaviour change, cooking behaviour and healthy diet.
EDUCATION
10/2021 - Present
Loughborough, England, UK
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Design
Loughborough University
Design Intervention | Behaviour Change | Cooking Behaviour | Healthy Diet
09/2016 - 11/2019
Savannah, GA, USA
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Industrial Design
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
09/2012 - 07/2016
Wuxi, China
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Industrial Design
Jiangnan University
SOFTWARE
Industrial Design
Rhino
SolidWorks
KeyShot
Blender
Alias SpeedForm
AutoCAD
UI / UX
Adobe XD
Sketch
General
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
LANGUAGE
Mandarin Native
English Fluent
SKILL
Industrial/Product Design CAD Modeling
Infographic Design Rendering
Graphic Design Prototyping
Research & Development
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
11/2022 - Present
Loughborough,
England, UK
Module Tutor Loughborough University
Undergraduate Part A module: Signs and Meanings
- Supported digital skills training, specifically CAD skills in Solidworks.
- Supported teaching Illustrator graphics skills, specifically adding graphical components to create 2D carton packaging graphics.
- Supported studio-based workshop sessions to help students with their tasks and offer advice/guidance. The activities covered creating brand mood boards, brand dissection to create 2D bottle sketches, personas and the user experience, and packaging usability testing.
- Provided group tutorials to review the progress of students' coursework.
- Assessed students' submissions.
Undergraduate Part A module: Design at SDCA
- Supported Design Studios sessions to teach sketching (hand-drawing).
- Supported Design Crit and provided feedback to students’ coursework in group tutorials.
Undergraduate Part B module: Advanced CAD / Digital Skills for Design 1
- Supported the teaching of CAD and digital skills, specifically Rhino, Rhino SubD tools and SolidWorks, for Industrial Design and Environment Design.
- Assessed students' submissions.
Undergraduate Part B module: Advanced Visualisation / Digital Skills for Design 2
- Supported the teaching of CAD and digital skills, specifically rendering in Blender.
- Assessed students' submissions.
Foundation Year module: Introduction to Design Practice
- Supported the Studio Workshop and industrial design sketching fundamentals (hand drawing & digital drawing with Sketchbook).
03/2019 - 05/2019
Savannah, GA, USA
Teaching Assistant Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
- Served as a teaching assistant for undergrad level class: Portfolio and Résumé Development, and grad level class: Professional Practices in Industrial Design.
- This course served as a forum to discuss and prepare for the concerns of the professional world. Emphasis is placed on budgeting skills, portfolio preparation, presentation refinement and professional practices, including ethical issues related to the profession.
09/2018 - 11/2018
Savannah, GA, USA
Teaching Assistant Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
- Served as a teaching assistant to teach Computer-aided Product Design. Course contents included Rhino and Keyshot.
ACTIVITY
27/07-04/08/2023
Loughborough,
England, UK
Summer School - Global Project-Based Learning program (Transport-Related)
- Facilitated students from Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) to collect and analyse data for two mini research projects: The safety of E-scooters & The transferability of UK’s roundabouts in Japan.
06-07/06/2023
Cheltenham,
England, UK
Cheltenham Science Festival 2023
- Served as a demonstrator to help demonstrate body illusions to thousands of visitors with the exhibit components.
- Showed an interactive and fun combination of hands-on illusions to visitors to make their body feel different to how it normally does to understand how the brain represents our own body.
22-24/05/2023
Loughborough,
England, UK
Pint of Science Loughborough 2023
- Served as a part of the Events Manager Team to help run cross-disciplinary events over 3 evenings, helping speakers from departments all over Loughborough University to showcase their work.
- Supported greeting guests, answering questions, and making sure people feel comfortable during the talks.
- Helped with the prior advertising of the event, setup and clearing away.
PROJECT
09/2017 - 11/2017
Savannah, GA, USA
Solve the issue within a non-designer organization by using creative thinking
- Aimed to clear up the issue within a non-designer organization by using creative techniques, and solve it through a verbal-visual co-creation activity.
- Designed and facilitated a co-creation workshop and conducted it with a local non-designer organization, Savannah Constuming Academy (SCA), to reshape how a group of people from an organization acquired knowledge and explored issues and ideas through hands-on creative exercises.
- The main outcome was a framework which could help non-designer organizations discover and solve internal problems. It included three main stages: problem exploration, idea generation, and implementation. Different techniques were given to each stage, allowing the user to choose the suitable technique according to their different situations, therefore applying this framework in different areas and industries.
10/2015 - 06/2016
Wuxi, China
Exploration of Innovative Eco-Agriculture—Ecological Farm Service System Design
Poverty Alleviation Project in Dalinggou Village, Hebei Province, China
- Helped poor farms to establish sustainable sales channels and build contact with corporate entities who can provide funds and services, in order to improve the service system, and finally establish an eco-farm brand and service system that can take into account agricultural product sales, the environment, and sustainable development of agricultural communities.
10/2014 - 03/2015
Wuxi, China
Urban Agriculture Design
2015 Milan EXPO “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”
- An urban agriculture design project for Vanke Kunshan Farm, an urban agriculture farm beside communities, aiming to rebuild the trust between users and providers.
- Through research on domestic and foreign farms, a service system was established to increase user viscosity and participation. This service system, named "The Adventure of Seeds", enabled children and their parents to take part in eco-tourism activities and agricultural education courses along with the growth process of seeds, thereby improving the agriculture experience.
- This project took advantage of Milano Expo 2015, "Feeding the planet, Energy for life", and defined the theme: "Feeding the Planet, Connecting to Communities", standing on the links between people and agriculture & food.