Associate Professor at the School of Design, East China Normal University, PhD from Sapienza University of Rome. Research focuses on design history and theory, artificial intelligence and product design, and comparative studies of Chinese and Italian design. In recent years, published several books on design history and theory; related work has been selected for the key thematic publishing program of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, and numerous papers have appeared in SSCI- and CSSCI-indexed journals. Led multiple design research projects, supervised students to win international and domestic awards such as the Red Dot Award and the MUSE Design Awards, and holds more than 50 patents.