Han Ting, professor at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, serves as a doctoral supervisor and a concurrent professor at the Institute of Medical Robotics. He holds several prestigious positions including the Vice Chairman of the Industrial Design Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, the Vice Chairman of the Computer-Aided Industrial Design Committee of the China Graphics Society, and is a member of the National Education Steering Committee for Postgraduate Degrees in Design, the Ministry of Education's Industrial Design Teaching Steering Subcommittee, and the Academic Committee of the Xie Youbai Design Science Research Fund. He leads the Shanghai Municipal Science Commission's Innovative Design Workstation, the Shanghai Design Innovation Center (Intelligent Medical and Health Design), and the city's university student cultural and creative practice base, and is a director of the Shanghai Design Capital Promotion Center.
Recognized as a "Yangtze River Scholar" young scholar by the Ministry of Education in 2019 and a distinguished professor in 2022, Han Ting has also been awarded the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, the National Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award. He is one of the top ten educators in the China Industrial Design Association. Under his leadership, more than ten national and provincial-level projects have been conducted, including key national research and development topics, the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, and the Shanghai Social Science Fund. He has undertaken research projects for the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Science and Technology Committee of COMAC, the Shanghai Municipal Science Commission, and the "Global Research Outreach Program GRO" project of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea. With three published monographs, over 50 high-level papers indexed in CSSCI, SCI, SSCI, and more, he holds more than ten patents and software copyright authorizations.
His accolades include the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award (ranked fourth), the first prize of the Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award (ranked first), the second prize (ranked first), and the second prize for academic works in the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award (ranked uniquely).
Han Ting has been distinguished with several prestigious awards and positions in the academic and professional fields. His accomplishments include:
Additionally, he holds various leadership roles:
User research and experience design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2016.06.
1) National Key Research and Development Program "Industrial Software" Key Project during the 14th Five-Year Plan, supporting research on modeling the design process of problem restructuring and solution evolution, January 2023 - December 2025, ongoing, leading;
2) General project of the National Social Science Fund, building a clinical care model for the elderly based on narrative medicine and experience design, June 2018 - June 2023, completed, leading;
3) Sub-project of the major project of the National Social Science Fund, application practice research on design morphology for industrial products in the context of design morphology and engineering, 2018 - 2022, completed, leading;
4) Project of the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund, strategies for optimizing the service experience of medical products based on PCC, June 2017 - December 2020, completed, leading;
5) Sub-project of a major consultation project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, research on roadmap for enhancing innovative design capabilities through innovative design education, 2013-ZD-15-10-3, September 2014 - December 2015, completed, leading;
6) Study on the competitiveness of enterprise (industry) design, key consultation sub-project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, June 2015 - December 2017, completed, leading;
7) Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan, 2013, Design Studies;
8) Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" planning project, 2012BCK001, research on the cognition of cultural goods by designers and consumers against the backdrop of a creative city, January 2013 - December 2018, completed, leading;
9) International cooperation project, Research on Users’ Experience and Design Value on Paper Use with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, October 2012 - October 2013, completed, leading;
10) Cisco Systems (China) Co., Ltd., usability testing and user experience research for Cisco's "Spring Roll" system, completed, leading;
11) Hongtao Industrial Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., interface design and system development for the Niu Finance website platform, completed, leading;
12) Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute, research on the visualization evaluation platform for interior design of commercial aircraft, completed, leading;
13) Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute, experiments on parametric representation and visual efficacy evaluation of cockpit interior design, completed, leading;
14) Danyang Prosthetic Factory, industrial design for medical prosthetics, completed, leading;
15) Shanghai Shengyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., industrial design for portable "medical emergency kits", completed, leading;
16) Shanghai Shengyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., industrial design for "public place AED emergency kits", completed, leading;
17) Hanshin Corporation of Korea, field study and development issue extraction on the living situation of single residents in China and Korea, completed, leading;
18) Shanghai Shengshang Culture Communication Co., Ltd., user experience and interface design for the mobile version of Love for Tao Class, completed, leading.