Yin Yu
Assistant Professor
Interior Architecture
SDSU
Bio
Dr. Yin Yu is an artist, designer, and engineer. Her research explores the potential of interactive multimedia environments and the intersection of architecture, music, and emerging technologies. Her practice covers a broad spectrum, including product design, furniture design, haptics, architectural design, interactive design, wearable design, and art installation. She has won several awards, including the Oregon BEST Red List Design Challenge, the Academic Excellence Design & Paper Award, and Lyman and Judith Johnson Interior Architecture Award. She was the recipient of the Olivia Long Converse Fellowship and the Nascence and UO Hong Kong Alumni Scholarship.
Dr. Yu’s works have been published and exhibited in international venues, such as the Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) conference (US), the Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID) workshop (FR), the Wearable Technology Exhibition (ES), the Expanded Animation Symposium at Ars Electronica (AT), and the Xenakis22 Symposium (GR).
She practiced in both technology firms and architectural design companies, such as Fortune 500 Global No.1 Design Firm AECOM, where she worked as the interior architect of the Apple China Campus project. She has also worked at local and international companies, such as BENOY (Europe Top 50 UK Design Firm), Optoplex (Top 13 in the Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Telecommunication), Group 70 International (A Hawaii Top 3 Architecture Design Firm), and SDC Solutions (a System Development Company based in Manchester, New Hampshire).
Dr. Yu joined the School of Art and Design in 2022. She has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering (SMU, China), a Master of Science in Information Technology (SNUH, US), and a Master of Science in Interior Architecture (UO, US). She received a Doctorate in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Education
- Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology
- M.S. in Interior Architecture
- M.S. in Information Technology
- B.S. in Electronic & Information Engineering
Areas of Specialization
- Multi-sensory Design
- Human-computer interactivity
- Wearable Technology
- Soft Robotics
- Responsive Design
- Computational Design
Certifications
Languages
Awards & Honors
- PSFA Dean’s Award for Achievement in Research Scholarship
- Creative Activity School of Art and Design Outstanding Faculty Award
Courses
- ART 250 Contemporary Interior
- ART 553 Commercial Design
- ART 596 Special Topics
- ART 596 Acoustic and Sound Design (forthcoming)
- ART 596 Artificial Intelligence for Design and Practice (forthcoming)
Research
Directed Student Research
Kayla Youhanaie, Tanya Vidhun, Bryan Mui, Highschool. Youhanaie, Kayla, Tanya Vidhun, Bryan Mui, and Yin Yu. 2022. EarBloom: A Bio-Inspired Intersection of High-Fidelity Hearing Protection and Fashion Technology. Journal of Student Research 10 (4). Houston, USA. https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v10i4.2190.
Varun Pal, Jaaron Leibson, Suhana Shrivastava, Highschool. Varun Pal, Jaaron Leibson, Suhana Shrivastava, Yin Yu, Lina Kim, Alanna Bartolini, Diarmid Flatley. 2021. The Piano Press: A Cable-Actuated Glove for Assistive Piano Playing. Journal of Student Research, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v10i3.2187
Jain, Ria, Kunal Kapur, Jiaqi Wang, Highschool. Jain, Ria, Kunal Kapur, Jiaqi Wang, Yin Yu, Diarmid Flatley, and Lina Kim. 2021. “Soft Robotics in Body Assistance: An Intelligent Rehabilitation Device With Soft Continuum Actuation”. Journal of Student Research 10 (1). Houston, USA. https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v10i1.1393.
Grants
Media
Wearable Technology to Aid in Post-Covid Loss of Smell https://psfa.sdsu.edu/news/2023/wearable-technology-to-aid-in-post-covid-loss-of-smell
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
Yu, Yin. Harris, Conrad. “Light Tectonics: The New Aesthetics in Iannis Xenakis’s Work.” In Meta-Xenakis. Open Book Publisher. Rouen: Éd. Centre Iannis Xenakis. In Press. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0390
PROCEEDINGS
Yu, Yin. “Towards a Morphogenesis: Light in Xenakis’s Work.” In Xenakis22: Centenary International Symposium. Athens and Nafplio, Greece. May 24-29, 2022. pp. 202 - 215. 2022. https://xenakis2022.uoa.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Xenakis-22_Proceedings.pdf
Yu, Yin. “airMorphologies: A Wearable Device for Social Interaction in Air Polluted Environments.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-4. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383165