Yicheng Sun (Lecturer)

Personal bio
Yicheng 'YC' Sun is a director in IDEO's health portfolio, specializing in building digital products and emerging technologies. Some of YC's market-facing impacts include designing the future of clinical trials experience for underserved populations, improving neurological disease treatment and prevention, and making personal wellbeing engaging through digital interventions in sleep, mental health, and movement. Embracing the mindset of a player-coach, YC also shares his expertise as a sought-after conference speaker, workshop facilitator, startup advisory board member, and graduate-level lecturer. YC is an adjunct professor at Stanford Design School. He teaches "Design for Healthy Behaviors," a graduate-level course where students apply design thinking alongside patient-volunteers with chronic conditions to improve their long term health. He also teaches "Design for Extended Realities," where students explore and experiment with state-of-the-art technologies like VR, AR, XR, and the metaverse in a critical, intentional, and human-centered way.

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