Faculty &
Leadership

Kelvin, also known as Mr. Du, is an industry practice teacher with experience as a senior admissions officer. Through inquiry and ongoing guidance, Kelvin helps students turn their interests into projects they can carry out, reflect on and present. The work connects traditional Chinese culture with contemporary methods and technologies. Guided projects include archaeology and heritage conservation, Nuo cultural traditions, Zisha craftsmanship, specimen preparation and short-form web dramas.

• Archaeology and heritage conservation
• Traditional performance and craftsmanship
• Specimen preparation and nature observation
• Short-form web drama and cultural storytelling

Andy, also known as Mr. He, organizes interdisciplinary practice projects and guides students through their development. Projects have explored meditation, fragrance development, yak-milk ice cream, fine chemicals, nutrition and traditional approaches to well-being, Chinese and Tibetan medicinal materials, and Jewish history. Andy focuses on how different subjects connect in practice and on the details needed to carry a project through.

• Fine chemicals and product development
• Nutrition and traditional medicinal materials
• Meditation
• Jewish history

Shawn, also known as Mr. Qiu, organizes interdisciplinary projects that bring together care for others, technology and creative exploration. Projects include companionship for children with serious illnesses, digital documentation of the Bulang language, an English learning platform for schools in Xizang, and AI projects involving Devanagari script. Shawn also guides glacier fieldwork, game development, merchandise featuring original characters, and museum-inspired AI short films. By connecting students with researchers and practitioners, Shawn supports collaboration, experimentation and sustained work on projects.

• Community care and language documentation
• AI-supported education and language resources
• Glacier fieldwork
• Games and digital storytelling

Chris, also known as Mr. Xu, works in international education and coordinates short-form video production for the Industry Practice Department. Chris has guided projects on guide dogs, jellyfish care, fan culture and astronomy, connecting youth culture with social observation. In the guide-dog project, Chris guided students through home visits and follow-up interviews with people with visual impairments. Students used these experiences and personal stories to make documentaries.

• Documentary and short-form video production
• Accessibility and community interviews
• Jellyfish care and observation
• Astronomy

Johnson Zheng specializes in interdisciplinary engineering education and research mentoring for secondary school students. Johnson helps students turn engineering questions into feasible studies and prototypes through first-principles reasoning, clear problem definitions, analysis of constraints, data and reproducible experiments. Areas of work include robotics, the Robot Operating System (ROS), reinforcement learning, neural signal processing and scanning probe microscopy. Guidance covers concept design, hardware testing, data collection, research writing and business feasibility, with an emphasis on iterative development and system-level verification.

• Robotics and machine learning
• Neural signal processing
• Prototyping and system validation
• Research writing and feasibility analysis