Brown-RISD Master of Arts in Design Engineering

Yiru Chen is a Design Engineer and former Senior Product Designer at ByteDance/TikTok with five years of experience bridging digital products, physical systems, and kinetic art. Grounded in her multidisciplinary background from NYU, her work sits at the intersection of artistic expression and embodied intelligence. At MADE, Yiru seeks to fuse engineering rigor with artistic inquiry—transforming motion, machine vision, and hardware into responsive, living artifacts.