# Yicheng Sun

> Product & Innovation Leader | Healthcare AI + Digital Health | IDEO | Stanford

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yichengsun

I build products, services, and ventures in healthcare.

I’m a product, strategy, and transformation leader at IDEO in San Francisco, where I lead the healthcare portfolio across payers, health systems, pharma, medtech companies, public-sector partners, and venture-backed startups. My focus is turning ambiguous opportunities into clear product direction, aligned teams, and offerings that can launch and grow.

My work sits at the intersection of care delivery, digital health, AI, behavioral design, and service design. I’ve led programs ranging from small skunkworks teams to enterprise-scale initiatives, working across design, engineering, research, clinical operations, and product management. A lot of what I do is figure out what should be built, what it will take to make it real, and how to help teams deliver it inside complex organizations.

My work has contributed to products and platforms across public and private sectors. For the California Department of Health Care Services, I helped design and launch Soluna, a statewide youth mental health platform that has since reached more than 156,000 young people across California, delivered more than 62,000 coaching sessions, and achieved a 97% recommendation rate. I’ve also contributed to cancer research platforms, clinical tools, payer innovation, and AI-enabled care models aimed at improving engagement, adherence, and access.

I’ve been a lecturer at Stanford since 2020, teaching Design for Healthy Behaviors, where students work alongside patient-volunteers with chronic conditions to improve long-term health. I also teach Design for Extended Realities, where students examine VR, AR, AI, and other emerging technologies through a human-centered lens.

I hold an electrical engineering degree from Princeton University, where I developed a love of tinkering, building, and healthy doses of solder. In my free time, I make ceramics and run absurdly long distances.

## Work Experience
### Senior Portfolio Director, Healthcare Product & AI Innovation @ IDEO
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead a multi-million dollar healthcare portfolio across payers, health systems, the public sector, and venture-backed startups. Drive product strategy, relationship growth, and cross-functional delivery, helping teams turn ambiguous opportunities into launch-ready offerings, new lines of business, and products that can launch and grow.

### Senior Product Lead, Strategy & Design @ IDEO
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led product direction across healthcare and emerging technology programs, translating research and strategic bets into roadmaps, pilots, and launchable products. Worked across design, engineering, research, and operations to help teams make decisions, test ideas, and move from concept to product.

### Senior Product Designer & Prototyper @ IDEO
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed and built digital products, prototypes, and interactive systems across healthcare, fintech, and emerging technology. Worked across interaction design, software prototyping, data visualization, and physical-digital experimentation to help teams define what to build and make it tangible.

### Lecturer, Course Founder, Design for Extended Realities @ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )
Jan 2024 – Present | Stanford, CA
Founded and teach an annual full-quarter Stanford course on XR and spatial AI, where students from design, engineering, and MBA backgrounds learn to prototype virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences with both ambition and criticality. Student work has spanned healthcare, education, social connection, and mobility.

### Lecturer, Design for Healthy Behaviors @ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )
Jan 2021 – Present | Stanford, CA
Teach an annual Stanford course on behavior change and health, where 20–30 students per cohort work alongside patient-volunteers with conditions including Type 2 diabetes, chronic pain, and mental health challenges to design for lasting health impact. Combines human-centered design and behavioral science toward systems-level thinking, not just product solutions.

### Co-Founder @ SonderLabs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Co-founded a digital product consultancy and led remote teams building websites, apps, and early AI products for clients across creator economy, entertainment, education, and consumer tech.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Princeton University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yichengsun

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Last updated: 2026-04-13