Shuya Gong

Preceptor in Engineering Sciences; Associate, Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (TECH), SEAS

Shuya Gong is a Preceptor in Harvard University’s Master in Design Engineering program. She also teaches ES 139: Innovation in Science and Technology, was a Design Innovation Fellow, and is an Associate at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), where her research currently focuses on emotional ergonomics and how cyberphysical systems are reshaping human interaction, behavior, and value creation.

Previously, Shuya was an investor and Creative Director at IDEO CoLab Ventures, and served as a Design Director within IDEO’s Emerging Tech, Climate, and Systems Change practices. Her work spans collaboration with Fortune 50 companies including Citi, Nasdaq, Fidelity, H&M, and Target, helping to prototype future strategies, launch new ventures, and develop consumer brands such as Good & Gather, now a multi-billion dollar product line at Target. Across her work with corporations and ventures, she examines how emerging system dynamics position collaborative advantage as the defining factor in organizational competitiveness.

Shuya is also developing new methods and practices in regenerative design, advising a toolkit on Biodiversity+ Design, an initiative recognized by the UN, as well as building Wildtake, a culinary studio transforming ecological imbalance from invasive species into luxury goods, and apprenticing at Agape Healing, her family’s traditional Chinese medicine practice. Shuya holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University.