• Multimodal Interactive Design
• Virtual and Physical Integrative Prototyping for Design and Manufacture
• Design Education
• Design Thinking
• Design for Additive Manufacturing

Expertise Summary

Bingjian is a professional industrial designer and design academic. He received his BEng, MSc and PhD (Full Scholarship, Loughborough University) in the area of industrial design. He was the founding programme director of the department of industrial design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). In September 2018, he joined Ningbo Nottingham University (UNNC) and was immediately appointed as the Director of Product Design and Manufacture Programme. Apart from design education and research, he also has close collaborative relationship with industry, including Hisense and CRRC which he designed the 500KM/H high speed train concept for in 2018.

MMME1014 Industrial Design and Professional Practice 1

MMME3034 RSA Design Projects

MMME3095 Major Design Project Preparation

MMME3033 Major Design Project

PhD and Masters Supervision

Current PhD students 

1. Name: Fang Yang (full-time)/Supervision status: onging
2. Name: Yuqi Hu (full-time)/Supervision status: onging
3. Name: Hui Cheng (full-time)/ Supervision status: onging
4. Name: Yuhan Luo (full-time)/ Supervision status: onging
5. Name: Yufei Zhang (full-time)/ Supervision status: onging
6. Name: Yifan Jiang (full-time)/ Supervision status: onging

Completed PhD Supervision

1. Name: Siyuan Zhou (full-time)/ Supervision status:  Successfully Completed.
2. Name: Jing Ma (full-time)/ Supervision status:  Successfully Completed.
3. Name: Ruiheng Lan (full-time)/ Supervision status: Successfully Completed.

Current Masters students supervision

1. Name: Xiangqin Shi (full-time)/ Supervision status: onging
2. Name: Yifan Chen (full-time)/ Supervision status: onging

Completed Masters students supervsion:

1. Name: Qiwen Zheng (full-time)/ Supervision status: successfully completed

Internal Examination of PhD and MPhil degrees

Title of project: Personalized in-vehicle information system design for autonomous vehicles. (Internal accessor)

Title of Thesis: Leveraging Digital and Behavioural Data for Adaptive Cybersecurity (Internal Examiner)