Dr. Cheng Yao is Executive Dean of International School of Design, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China. He’s also Director of Information Product Design Department, College of Software Technology at Zhejiang University and Executive Deputy Director of Engineering Research Center of Computer Aided Product Innovation Design, Ministry of Education. He is also Guest Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), University of Nottingham, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). He was acting as visiting scholar at HCII, Carnegie Mellon University from 2014 to 2015. And been awarded IBM 2014 visiting scholarship. He is the member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), China Industrial Designers Association (CIDA). The author and co-author of more than 70 refereed papers, he is one with multi-discipline backgrounds who possesses the ability to combine design research and design practice into design education. His research interests lie in interaction design, AI aided design and interaction, design methodologies, cultural and technology impacts on design and intelligent products. He has won and supervised more than 30 international design awards including red-dot, iF awards, etc.. And he was invited as jury leader or committee member in more than 30 international and national design competitions.