The director of Design Interaction Visual Lab (DIV), Vice Dean of School of Creativity and Art of ShanghaiTech University and professor of Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, LA, USA. Dean, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China.

As a professor and scholar, he focuses research on design history and theory. His field covers architecture, product design, graphic design, fashion, city planning, illustration and entertainment design. He published books in Chinese such as A History of Modern Architecture, A History of Modern Design, A History of Fashion, A History of Graphic Design, A History of American Illustration, Nordic White Night – A Tour of Scandinavian Design, Chinese Complex of Heart, etc. His books were widely taken as the guiding reference of Chinese different design institutions. 

He also works as chief design director and chief advisor of different estate companies.  

The director of Center for Adaptive System Engineering (CASE), the director of Shenyang advanced materials research and development center of Institute of metal research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a doctoral supervisor. He graduated from University of Cambridge in 1992 with a doctor's degree. He was the chief scientist of 973 projects of the Ministry of science and technology of the people's Republic of China on basic problems of material computing design and performance prediction, scientific basic problems of performance oriented material integrated design and basic scientific problems of material design based on integrated computing. He is an expert in material technology and has long been committed to the research of light, high strength, high temperature metal materials and their near net forming technology. The new materials and parts manufacturing technology developed by him has been applied to national key projects in the fields of aviation, aerospace and deep sea.

He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from University College London (UCL), UK. His doctorate research mainly focuses on multi-agent system, reinforcement learning and generative model. Many of his research results were published on first-class international conferences in related fields such as NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI and CoRL. He is the primary member of UCL's EXIT, a team that developed algorithm independent of and parallel with Google Deepmind AlphaGo. He has served as a PC member of NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI and other world-renowned conferences, as well as a reviewer of many international journals and conferences such as ACM Computing Surveys, Frontiers of Computer Science, etc.

Dr. Zhenbo Zhang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at the Center for Adaptive System Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, where he leads the M³ (Manufacturing, Microstructure, Mechanics) Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Chongqing University in 2008 and his M.S. from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) / Risø National Laboratory in 2014, and subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK, from 2014 to 2019, before joining ShanghaiTech University.

His research lies at the intersection of physical metallurgy, additive manufacturing (AM), and multiscale mechanics, with the goal of developing high-performance structural alloys — primarily titanium alloys and nickel-based superalloys — with high strength, damage tolerance, and reliable service performance. His group focuses on two complementary directions: (i) exploiting the unique non-equilibrium metallurgy of AM to expand the compositional and microstructural design space of alloys (Materials Design by AM, MDbAM), exemplified by new Fe-rich titanium alloys with fully equiaxed, texture-free microstructures and architected heterostructured or dual-phase cellular alloys; and (ii) revealing the deformation and failure mechanisms of alloys under near-service conditions — including hydrogen exposure and elevated-temperature fatigue — through multiscale characterization combining synchrotron radiation, in-situ SEM/TEM, and high-resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC), with particular expertise in strain localization at phase boundaries, grain boundaries, and twin-boundary complexions.

Dr. Zhang has published 56 peer-reviewed papers with over 2,780 citations and an H-index of 26, including first- and corresponding-author works in Nature Communications, Acta Materialia, Additive Manufacturing, and Materials Research Letters. His research has been supported by more than ten competitive grants as Principal Investigator.

Group Website: https://zbzhang85.github.io/zhang-research-group/

A transdisciplinary designer and design researcher. He holds a PhD from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). His research areas include transmedia design, posthumanism, pop culture, philosophy of technology and environment humanity. He is conducting speculations on the future of everyday life towards ecological well-being by combining design research and design practices and bringing further studies of posthumanism in design. For him, design practice is an interdisciplinary poetic and relational inquiry mode, and he used his design works as research objects to write publications. His works have been exhibited globally, such as in Stockholm, Milan, and London Design Weeks.