ABOUT
Innovation Designer | Interactive Media Artist
His innovative design approach is celebrated for crafting cutting-edge solutions that advance sustainable development and multi-sensory experiences. His award-winning innovations, which explore the intersections of technology and human perception, as well as sustainability, have been recognized by the Industrial Designers Society of America, Terra Carta Design Lab, and Core77. Yechen’s work in pushing the boundaries of lighting design, spatial olfaction computing, and biomaterial research has garnered acclaim in both the design and tech communities.
Outside of the school, you may find him doing strength training and photographing. A condensed portfolio in PDF format could be provided upon request. Regarding the teaching portfolio, this link corresponds to the course "Air Materialized" that he taught during RISD Wintersession 2024.
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Jan. 2022 - Jun. 2024
Rhode Island School of Design, USA
Fall 2022
Brown University, USA
Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021
Shanghai University, China
Mar. 2020 - Jun. 2020
Degree: Master of Industrial Design GPA: 3.78/4.0
2022, 2023 Fellowship, Fred M. Roddy Scholarship
Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design Conferred with Collegiate Teaching Experience
Course Registration: Biomedical Engineering Design and Innovation
Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts Major: Digital Media Art GPA: 3.62/4.0
Three consecutive years of academic scholarship (¥5500)
2019, 2020 Outstanding Student Award
2021 Shanghai Municipal Scholarship (¥8000)
2021 Shanghai City Honor Graduate
Exchange program
University of Wollongong, Austraia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nov. 2024 - Present
Jul. 2021 - Nov. 2021
Jun. 2021
Sep. 2020 - Mar. 2021
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
BrainCo, China
Shanghai RDR Culture & Communications Co., Ltd
Shanghai International Institute of Design & Innovation, China
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Wintersession, 2024
Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Sep. 2022 - May 2024
Apr. 2022
Self-designed course ID-3780 Air Materialized
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Manager of the E-Lab at RISD ID
Dancing with materials 3-day workshop
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Sep. 20223- May. 2024
Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023
Dec. 2022
Aug. 2021 - May. 2022
Oct. 2020 - Jun. 2021
Jun. 2020 - Nov. 2020
Sustainability Design Lab, RISD
RISD Research Assistant
RISD ID Health & Wellness Fund Project
Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab, US
Tongji-MIT City Science Shanghai Lab, China
Center for Digital Innovation, Tongji University, China
EXHIBITION
Sep. 2024
Sep. 2023
Mar. 2023
Oct. 2022
May 2022
Climate Week NYC
Design Week RI
RISD MID Biennial
RISD ID Triennial
MIT Museum Studio
AWARDS
Core77 Design Award 2024
Terra Carta Design Lab
17th Annual International Design Awards (IDA)
12th User Experience Design Award (UXDA)
Student Notable Emerging Technologies Award
RISD Top Ten Finalist
Silver, Bronze
Bronze
PUBLICATION
Sep. 2024
(First Author) IDSA International Design Conference & Education Symposium
Jun. 2024
RISD Master Thesis
Sep. 2020
(First Author) Published in 2020 5th International Conference on Automation, Control, and Robotics Engineering. IEEE
Mar. 2020
(First Author) Published in the magazine "Design" sponsored by China Industrial Design Association. Demo based on this concept
Dec. 2017
(First Author) This paper was accepted in thhe "Youth in the Age of Innovation" book, pressed by Shanghai University.
SKILLS
SOFTWARE
FABRICATION
LANGUAGES
Adobe Creative suite, Arduino, Max/Msp, Processing, p5js, Figma, Principle, Rhinoceros, Keyshot, 3Ds Max, Tajima, Clo3D
3D printing, Laser Cutting, Digital Embroidery, CNC Milling, Woodworking, Sewing, Shoemaking
Mandarin (native), English (fluent)
