Haoyu Dong 董 皓 宇
PhD | Design researcher | Adventurer
born in a small town in Dongying, in the northern part of China. She completed her bachelor's education at Tongji University in Shanghai, where she studied Transportation Design, an interdisciplinary programme jointly offered by the Department of Automotive and the Department of Design & Innovation. In 2018, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue a Master's degree in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. During her studies, she focused on haptic and tangible interaction design, exploring how abstract information could be communicated through the body. Her works were exhibited at Dutch Design Week (DDW) as part of the 4TU exhibition. In 2020, she completed an internship at Accenture Industry X.0, and graduated with her project “Exploratory Design for Haptic Symbols: On-body Vibrotactile Patterns to Convey Specific Information”. Afterwards, she continued her PhD journey in the same department, where she brought together her background in automotive engineering, industrial design, and interaction design. Throughout her PhD, she presented her work at international conferences and engaged in collaborative research activities across institutions. In 2025, she received international exchange funding from the department to become a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney. In the same year, she joined Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd as a PhD intern for three months, working as a user researcher within the Intelligent Vehicle Solution Business Unit.
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Photography > My photo works
Visualism & art > My art works
Chinese calligraphy > Check out the workshops I provide
Bouldering (6c+/V5)