Team
// INSTRUCTORS · 教师团队
Meet your team · 认识你的团队
A joint offering of Kedao College, SCA (School of Creativity and Art), SIST (School of Information Science and Technology), and SEM (School of Entrepreneurship and Management) at ShanghaiTech University.
Instructors
Interdisciplinary educator and practitioner at the intersection of technology, design, and creativity. Leads the Maker-X course design and overall program direction.
✉ EmailDesigner and educator at SCA, bringing expertise in creative processes, form development, and human-centered design to the course.
Faculty at SIST bringing technical depth in embedded systems, AI, and hardware integration — the engineering backbone of the course.
Associate Professor & Assistant Dean at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech. PhD in Business Administration from Peking University. Brings entrepreneurship, pitching strategy, and startup ecosystem expertise to the course.
Guest Lecturers
// GUEST LECTURES · 特邀讲座
"Empathy as the starting point for designing robot personality" — how human insight shapes the soul of a machine. A lecture and workshop that bridges design thinking and character design in the context of AI-powered physical products.
Engineers from Espressif Systems — the company behind the ESP32 — give a deep dive into the hardware platform and the ESP-Claw framework, straight from the people who built it.
Contact
For course enquiries or collaboration:
| Shimon Shmueli | sshmueli@shanghaitech.edu.cn |