Speaker Li Shaobo

Dean, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor of the College of Fine Arts at Hunan Normal University, China; Chief Expert of the Hunan Provincial Research Base for Chinese Character Culture and Art; Visiting Professor at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Berlin, Germany; and Academic Committee Member of the Center for Chinese Font Design and Research, Ministry of Education of China.

He has designed and developed the FounderType Junhei Big5 Chinese and Western font library, the HanyiType Baman Big5 Chinese and Western font library, the cockpit screen font for the COMAC aircraft, and the user interface for the Chinese Kylin operating system.He has led national research projects on topics such as the evolution of Chinese character fonts and research on Chinese textbook fonts.