School of Engineering
Brown-RISD Master of Arts in Design Engineering

Xitong Yuan (Rocky)

Biography

Xitong Yuan is a Design Engineering dual master's student at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design with honors from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George Washington University.  He is passionate about digital experience design in AI-Human Interaction. He has a strong passion for exploring the potential of tangible interfaces with AI's future possibilities, aiming to make information communication more intuitive and meaningful. He has also dedicated his efforts to enhancing the UX design of Mixed-Reality interfaces, earning an XR certificate from Professor D. Fox Harrell at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In the future, he aims to integrate spatial experience design with hardware wearable design to blend the digital world with reality, shaping how individuals interact within our society.