General Chairs
- Seungwoo JE (SUSTech School of Design)
- Ziyin 'Zinn' Liu (SciArt Co-lab, AIRS)
- Cedric Honnet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Commitee
- Xueliang Li (SUSTech School of Design)
- Pengcheng An (SUSTech School of Design)
- Xuesong Zhang (SUSTech School of Design)
- Ellie Cai (Seeed Studio)
- Suxuan Jiang (SciArt Co-lab, AIRS)
Advisors
- Xiaohua Sun (SUSTech School of Design)
- Ning Ding (AIRS, CUHK-SZ)
- Shaomin Shen (SciArt Co-lab, AIRS)
- Neil Gershenfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Joseph Paradiso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dream Team
- Atommann (SZDIY, Shenzhen Hardware Mentor)
- Jose Angel Torres (Source Parts Inc, Shenzhen Hardware Mentor)
- Noah Zerkin (Combine Reality, Shenzhen Hardware Mentor)
- Paul Hamilton (Shenzhen Hardware Mentor)
- Ryan Liang (SZDIY, Shenzhen Hardware Mentor)
- Terry Given (Tymphany, Shenzhen Hardware Mentor)
- More soon...
Host Institutions
SUSTech School of Design
Established in April 2020, the School of Design at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is educating students to be the next generation of technically literate, ethically responsible and socially engaged leaders in innovation, and the faculty members are conducting cutting-edge research and knowledge transfer for the development of the sustainable innovation ecosystem in the region. Currently, the School of Design has built up a cross-disciplinary and international faculty from several countries, including China, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and South Korea, and from diverse academic backgrounds, such as industrial design, interaction design, architectural design, mathematics, structure and material. sound, film-making, and sociology.
AIRS
Established in Shenzhen, one of the most dynamic and rapidly developing cities in the world, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS) is an institute for fundamental and applied researches in artificial intelligence and robotics (AIR). The main contributor of AIRS is The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, with collaboration with worldwide top institutions in AIR. AIRS is committed to creating a new research institution model that integrates top university resources, international collaborations, industrial demands, and incubation motivations, etc. As an active and constructive member in the global research community, AIRS has built up a highly qualified team, including Chinese and foreign academicians, prestigious scholars and industry experts, working in areas of special robots, intelligent robots, micro-nanorobots, swarm intelligence, machine learning and the application of AI in industry, healthcare, etc. The objectives of AIRS are to establish an internationally open institute, so that prestigious scholars worldwide can enjoy conducting researches in AIRS, gather and cultivate talents for future leaders, promote the industrialization of AI and robotics and make them available for the society like air to human beings, and ultimately, create a kernel city of AI and robotics for the world.
CUHK-Shenzhen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen was founded in accordance with the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Chinese-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools upon approval by the Ministry of Education. It strives to explore a new path of higher education featured by strong connections to both China and the world. The University is committed to providing top-quality higher education that features an integration of the East and the West and fostering an enriching research environment. It is CUHK-Shenzhen’s mission to cultivate innovative talents with a global perspective, Chinese cultural traditions and social responsibilities. Currently, more than 10000 students are studying at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. CUHK-Shenzhen encourages international experiences and seeks to nurture global awareness. As of now, it has signed agreements with more than 140 renowned universities in 30 countries across the globe, offering around 250 international programmes of different types. Over 60% students have credit-bearing overseas experience. Rising up to the challenges and opportunities of the Greater Bay Area and modern China at large, CUHK-Shenzhen is strengthening its research teams of experts and professionals in big data and data science, future intelligent network, bioinformatics, new materials and energy, finance and logistics, robotics and intelligent manufacturing, drug discovery and precise medicine, and other areas of sci-tech innovation.