Lingyun Sun is a Professor of Design at Zhejiang University. He’s currently a deputy director of International Design Institute. He has interdisciplinary research experiences, including artificial intelligence, computer graphics, design cognition, interaction design, ergonomics and drama. He is taking part in the MIT-SUTD Teach-the-Teacher program and teaching courses regularly at SUTD.

He is the author or co-author of over 20 journal or conference papers on Industrial Design, Computer Aided Sketching and Interaction Design. He holds patents on inventions relating to interaction and sketching technology. He is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America, a member of the council of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society Industrial Design Institution, a member of China Computer Federation.