Hyeok ”Dean” Song
Hyeok “Dean” Song is an automotive and humanoid designer based in Austin, Texas, United States. He is currently an Industrial Design Intern – Humanoid Design at Apptronik, where he has been working since September 2025 on-site in Austin. In this role, he focuses on the design of humanoid robotics, combining industrial design thinking with real-world engineering andproduct developmentrequirements.
Before joining Apptronik, Dean completed a Creative Design Internship at General Motors from May 2025 to August 2025 in Pasadena, California. His responsibilities included exterior design development, visualisation work, and automotive design using tools such asAdobe Photoshopand Blender. He also served as an Exterior Design Intern at Nissan Motor Corporation from January 2025 to April 2025 in San Diego, California, where he contributed to exterior vehicle styling and concept development.
Dean has over two years of professional experience at KLIO DESIGN in South Korea. From July 2022 to August 2023, he worked full-time as a Designer and Researcher, supporting OEM advanced design research and development, production car design, and autonomous mobility design. Prior to that, he completed a design internship at KLIO DESIGN from June 2021 to July 2022, where his work included the DaeDong GS100 electric scooter production design (with his theme sketch selected), KIA The All New RAY Gravity trim wheel design (final design selected), andMahindraXUV3XO facelift production design, where his front design theme and component designs were selected for production.
Earlier in his career, Dean worked as a Mobility Design Intern at MOVI Mobility Vision Co. Ltd. in Seoul from November 2020 to March 2021, contributing to electric scooter concepts, mobility concepts, and UI/UX design. In 2019, he also served as a Design Process 2 Teaching Assistant at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.
Dean is currently completing his Bachelor of Science in Transportation Design at ArtCenter College of Design, where he has been enrolled since 2018 and is in his 6th term, with an expected graduation in December 2026.
His core skills include automotive exterior and interior design, humanoid design, autonomous mobility design, CMF design, UX design, visualisation, and product development, using professional tools such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Fusion 360, Blender, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
