PhD - Meet our PhD advisors | School of Design

PhD applicants are encouraged to identify and contact potential supervisors within the School of Design to discuss their intended research proposals prior to submitting their application through the online registration process. Supervisors may offer guidance and feedback on the proposal during these discussions.
Research within the School of Design is concentrated in specific areas aligned with the expertise of our academic staff. While applicants may indicate their preferred supervisors, the School Research Committee reserves the right to assign other qualified academic staff members as supervisors, based on their relevant professional background, experience, and expertise.

Eligible Chief Supervisors
Professor Name	Expertise
Bruyns, Gerhard	Transition Environment Design, Volumetric Morphology, Critical Environments, Systems and Strategies for Regional Design, Gameboarding Spatial Design.
Campbell, Angus Donald	Product Design, Design Research, Service Design, Co-design, Design for Sustainable Development
Choi, Sunny	Urban Design, Environmental Design, Ecosystem, Hyper-morphology, Interior urban environments and spaces
Duh, Henry	Augmented and Virtual Reality, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction
Elkin, Daniel	Housing Sciences, Design Making, Spatial Agency Research
Feast, Luke	Design Entrepreneurship, Higher Education Innovation
Gutierrez, Laurent	Strategic Planning, Urban Environment, Relationship between Design, Art and Politics in Asia
Hasdell, Peter	Architecture and Interior Design, urbanism and urban planning, social design, interaction design
Ho, Jeffrey	Virtual reality, perspective-taking experience, interaction design, information architecture
Hoorn, Johan	Social Robotics, Computational Creativity, AI and Design, Emotion Simulation, Epistemics, Data Analysis
Ivanov, Alexander	Advertising, data visualization, human-computer interaction design, group creativity, innovation, social aspects in UX, LEGO Serious Play, Virtual try-on technology
Kong, Anthony Pui Keung	Design for Hospitality, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media and Technology, Learning Design
Lee, Brian	Sustainable product and service system, sociomateriality, quality of life, design for ageing society, community art and public furniture
Lee, Kun-Pyo	UX Design, User-centered Design, Service Design, Interaction Design, Design Methods
Liu, Sylvia	Design management capability, design policy, design-driven entrepreneurship, integrated design thinking
Lo, Sky	Computational Architecture, Building Information Modeling, Gamification Application, Virtual Reality in VR, AR, MR, XR, Application of Digital tools to connect Rurals and Cities, Parametric and Digital Fabrication, Interactive Design, HCI and HVRI
Lu, Luca Qiuyu	Ecological HCI, Computational Design, Bio-inspired & Biomimetic Design, Digital Fabrication
Luximon, Tina	Ergonomic design, anthropometry, 3D human modeling, head and face products, AI design tool, HCI
Ma, Henry	Creativity research, design education, theories and applications of design thinking
Ng, Sandy	Art and Design History, Visual and Material Culture
Oh, Jae-Eun	Animation, animation storytelling, nostalgic animation, theme park studies, animation tourism, animation education, students' motivation, creativity
Park, Jaden	UX & Service Design, Entrepreneurship, Digital Innovation (Service Robot, Metaverse, AI)
Park, Shera Hyunyim	Service design, service system, digital platform, servitisation and customer experience particularly in technology enabled services and service ecosystems
Shih, Yiteng	Industry collaboration, design award, concept design, team design
Siu, Michael	Public Design, User Reception, Inclusive Design, Participatory Design, Public Design and Health, Design and Engineering Education
Tufail, Muhammad	Research & Analysis in Design, Co-design & Participatory Research in Design, Integrated Design-driven Research, Research through Design, Design for Elderly, UI/UX Design Research, Internet of Things in Design
Wang, Hailiang	Human Factors/Ergonomics, Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Intelligent Systems Design, Human Psychosocial Behaviors
Wang, Stephen	Innovative Design, Design Intelligence, Interaction Design, UX Design and Industrial Design
Wang, Norah	Social Innovation and Social Design, Resilience and Regeneration, Impact Economy
Wei, Huaxin	Interactive narrative, game design, game studies, human-computer interaction design
Wernli, Markus	Regenerative design, intersectoral collaboration; community/industry alliances; participatory citizen science; bioregioning; collectivized fermentation; food agency; eco-sanitation.
Vega, Luis	Collaborative making, sociomateriality, practice-led research, non-representational methods, onto-epistemology
Yu, Junnan	Child-Computer Interaction; Human-Computer Interaction; Interactive Learning Technologies; Design Research; Research Methods
Zhang, Feiran	Design-Based Learning, Emotion Awareness, Affective Technologies, Child-Agent Interaction
Zhou, Zhibin	Human-AI Interaction Design Methodology/Tools for AI-enhanced UX
Zhu, Wangda	Interaction Design, AI in Education, UX Research Methods

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Eligible Chief Supervisors