Team

Instructors and guest lecturers for Maker-X Summer 2026

// 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

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Shimon Shmueli
Instructor  ·  SCA

Interdisciplinary educator and practitioner at the intersection of technology, design, and creativity. Leads the Maker-X course design and overall program direction.

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Daniel Koo
Instructor  ·  SCA

Designer and educator at SCA, bringing expertise in creative processes, form development, and human-centered design to the course.

梁俊睿
Instructor  ·  SIST

Faculty at SIST bringing technical depth in embedded systems, AI, and hardware integration — the engineering backbone of the course.

Xiaoyu Zhou  周晓宇
Instructor  ·  SEM

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

JunJun Shi  史珺珺
Guest Lecture — Week 1

"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.

Topics: Empathy mapping · Character archetypes · Personality-first design · Robot affect
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Espressif Engineers
Guest Lecture — Week 2

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.

Topics: ESP32 architecture · Wi-Fi & Bluetooth · ESP-Claw internals · AI integration patterns

Contact

For course enquiries or collaboration:

Shimon Shmueli sshmueli@shanghaitech.edu.cn