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River Cheng

Work Experience

KOHLER (Senior Industrial Designer)

SEP/2013 - Present

- Electronic Consumer Products. Including Intelligent Toilet, Bathroom Heater, Mirror Cabinet, Steamer, Water Filtration.

- Product Interface / User Experience. Including KOHLER SMART HOME APP.

- Product Line Strategy. Including Planning Intelligent Toilet Product Line, KOHLER SMART HOME

IDEO (Product Designer) / Contractor

AUG/2012 - JUN/2013

- Induction Cooker, Innovation Product & Strategy Project (4 months) / Product Design (core team member)

- Hypermarket, Innovation Product & Strategy Project (3 months) / Human Factor & PD (core team member)

- Toy, Product & Strategy Project (1 month) / Product Design (core team member)

FORD (Advanced Product Group, Innovation Designer ) / Intern

JUL/2011 - SEP/2011

- Luxury Mini Bus - Interior Innovation Function Design

- Cross Car Line - Innovation Function & Product Design

Industrial Technology Research Institute

JAN/2006 - AUG/2010

- Innovation Design

- Integrated Circuit Design Engineer

- H.264 Image Processing Encoder/Decoder Chip Design

2010 - present

Education

Royal College of Art (Innovation Design Engineering)

2010 - 2012, MA

Imperial College London (Innovation Design Engineering)

2010 - 2012, MSc

National Taiwan University (Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering)

2003 - 2005, MSc

Awards

2013 MarketingEvent Awards 2013: Gold Award (Best Venue Experience)

2013 MarketingEvent Awards 2013: Gold Award (Best Use of Retail)

2012 Core77 Design Awards : Smart Touch (Runner up)

2012 Core77 Design Awards : E-Mailbox (Notable)

2012 Helen Hamlyn Design Awards, Royal College of Art : Smart Touch

2012 PININFARINA Design Contest : Smart Touch (3rd Prize)

2012 IDEA Student Award : Flexible Colander (Finalist)

2012 IDEA Student Award : Warning Wiper (Finalist)

2012 RSA Student Awards : Smart Touch (Highly Commended)

2012 RSA Student Awards : Pulse Glasses (Finalist)

2012 iF concept award : Electronic Magnifier (300 Preselection)

2011 Spark Awards: Concept_Fall_Winter : Flexible Colander (Bronze Award)

2011 Spark Awards: Concept_Fall_Winter : Injection Reminder (Finalist)

2011 Spark Awards: Concept_Fall_Winter : Breakdown User Guide Safety Vest (Finalist)

2011 D&AD Student Awards : In-Book Award: WindScreen Warning Wiper (Product Design)

2011 London 2012 Olympic Games Podium Design Competition (Finalist)

2011 iF concept award : BraillPadScan

2010 Red dot design award: design concept : Full-Rear-View WindScreen Monitor

2010 Red dot design award: design concept : Retractable Tape Cord

2010 Red dot design award: design concept : G.P.Stamp

2009 Winner Award in AIC Student Design Awards, Product Design

2008 6th Future Technology Creativity Contest, held by ITRI, Taiwan : My Eyes (3rd Prize)

2007 5th Future Technology Creativity Contest, held by ITRI, Taiwan : Vocal Bible (3rd Prize)

2006 MEN's UNO Model competition TOP 20, held by famous fashion magazine "MEN's UNO"

2004 MEN's UNO Model competition TOP 20, held by famous fashion magazine "MEN's UNO"

1994 11th Science Imaginary Painting Fair held by National Taiwan Science Centre（Excellent Work）

Bursary

2012 James Dyson Foundation Bursary

Patent & Paper

An Innovative Fume Extractor by Using Only One Motor to Blow and Extract Simultaneously

PATENT, 101211620, Applied Country: US, Taiwan, JUN/2012

Bandwidth Optimized Hardware Design for Motion Compensation Memory Access

PATENT, I386067, Applied Country: US, Taiwan, DEC/2007

The Current and Emerging Sensor Technologies, applied on Intelligent vehicle collision warning

JOURNAL, JUN/2006

Bandwidth Optimized Hardware Design for Motion Compensation Memory Access

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