MS Thesis 2026
A Co-Creative Drawing Robot for Freehand Sketching and Analogical Thinking in Early-Stage Design Ideation
Hengyue Zhao
MSCD
Advised by Joshua Bard, Daniel Cardoso Llach

Hengyue Zhao is a first-year student in the MSCD program, with a bachelor's degree from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Hengyue is committed to transcending disciplinary boundaries, exploring from art to computation, programming, AI, and ecological crisis, he continually pushes the boundaries, extending technology into various fields, imbuing it with new life and potential.