06TEAM

A cross-boundary team,building a real world model

East Mind combines AI research, engineering, industry execution and global resource coordination. The team brings research depth in world models and multimodal intelligence together with the ability to translate Eastern culture into products, industry systems and verifiable action.

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06 / POSITION

We organize disciplines through harmony without uniformity, and test technology through the unity of knowledge and action.

12+core members and research advisors

60+high-quality research papers

4complementary execution capabilities

06.01FOUNDER

Rooted in Eastern culture, connecting research, engineering and global business.

The founder leads the world-model direction, cross-boundary resource integration and industry execution, translating Eastern views of relationship, sequence and wholeness into researchable and engineerable questions.

01FOUNDER & CEO

East Zhang

Founder & CEO; initiator of the Eastern-culture foundation model and intelligent-hardware ecosystem.

Degrees across software engineering, programming, applied finance and information systems
Shenzhen Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent
Shenzhen returnee representative and founding go-global service committee member
Guest lecturer at Lingnan University Hong Kong
Chongqing high-level talent and returnee innovation representative
Co-founding deputy secretary and guest lecturer at Southwest University
Chief AI expert at Jinan Modern I-Ching Research Institute
Chief youth innovation liaison at the International AI Industry Alliance
Honorary external-relations director of the Australia China PhD Forum and DMEXCO Young Leader
Founder of Ijoy Education and NaviToAI; former APAC director at Hong Kong Wanzhong Technology

InterdisciplinaryGlobal BusinessEastern AI

06.02CO-FOUNDERS

Research, engineering, brand and growth move together.

The core team covers the complete path from model research to product engineering, market adoption and global growth.

01AI RESEARCH

Rui Li

CSO & Co-founder, leading AI research and international academic collaboration.

PhD in artificial intelligence with top journal and conference publications
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
External Relations Director, Australia China PhD Forum

AI PhDTSE Reviewer

02ENGINEERING

Ace Yu

CTO & Co-founder, leading model engineering, platform architecture and product R&D.

Three computer-related degrees
Former core R&D engineer at ByteDance Dongchedi
Former core R&D engineer at PDD TEMU

ByteDancePlatform Engineering

03BRAND & BUSINESS

Kong Chen

CMO & Co-founder, leading brand, market and organizational development.

Former HR manager at OCT Group
Former wealth director at ICBC-AXA
Serial entrepreneurship and organizational leadership

EntrepreneurshipBrand

04GROWTH

Tomsin Tang

CGO & Co-founder, leading commercial growth and industry ecosystem partnerships.

Founder of Inweino Technology
Former Tencent executive
Core commercial-growth contributor during Tencent’s early public-company phase

TencentGrowth Ecosystem

06.03SCIENTISTS

Ground the world model in credible interdisciplinary research.

Our scientists span human–computer interaction, virtual reality, affective recognition and software engineering, translating research questions into testable model capabilities.

01HCI & METAVERSE

Yi Wang

Research lead across virtual reality, requirements engineering and HCI.

PhD across virtual reality and requirements engineering
Author of 30+ high-quality international journal and conference papers
International reviewer and former IEEE VR vice chair

HCIVirtual Reality

02RESEARCH ADVISOR

CZPROFILE

Chengzu Dong

Research advisor connecting international academic collaboration and world-model research.

Assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong
Author of 40+ high-quality international journal and conference papers
Long-term participant in international review and cross-regional research exchange

World ModelsInternational Research

03AFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Ju Zhou

Affective-intelligence scientist.

PhD in emotion recognition and postdoctoral researcher at CAS
Contributor to national and regional affective-interaction projects
Researches the long-term relationship between affective signals and intelligent interaction

Emotion RecognitionCAS

06.04PRODUCT & ECOSYSTEM

Turn research into products, brands and global connections.

Design, marketing and ecosystem members bring model capabilities to users, industry partners and international markets.

01GLOBAL MARKETING

Chao Jing Yong

Global marketing partner connecting Chinese and European markets.

Startup project director at a French incubator
Supported four brands in overseas expansion
Long-term China–Europe market development

Go-globalChina–Europe

02DESIGN

Lucas Liu

Design expert across brand, interaction and content expression.

Former designer at multiple major technology companies
Dual degrees in design and communication
Operator of a million-follower content account

Experience DesignContent

03GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM

Martin Ma

Global ecosystem expert for industry resources and digital partnerships.

Former operations director at Yunrui Group
Former core operator at Huawei AppGallery
Hands-on enterprise digital-transformation experience

HuaweiDigital Transformation

04ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Weibo Sun

Ecosystem development expert for strategic partnerships and business connections.

Ecosystem partnership and development experience
Industry-resource integration and partner-network building
Strategic partnerships and business development

Strategic BDEcosystem

06.05THE EASTERN METHOD

Eastern culture is a working method, not team decoration.

Classical concepts are translated into principles that can be discussed, tested and connected to responsibility.

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Harmony without uniformity: preserve disciplinary difference while coordinating around shared goals.
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Investigating things to extend knowledge: build understanding from real objects, data and contexts.
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Unity of knowledge and action: test model judgments through products, industry action and feedback.
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Following natural patterns: respect human rhythm, environmental constraints and system evolution.

06.06TEAM FOUNDATION

Resources, research, engineering and commercialization form a dual engine.

Together, these capabilities move the Eastern-culture model, intelligent hardware and industry solutions from research toward scale.

0101

Resource integration

Connect universities, research organizations, technology ecosystems, industry partners and global markets.

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Research depth

Doctoral research across AI, HCI, affective intelligence and software engineering.

0303

Engineering execution

Full-stack and major-platform experience across models, software and hardware.

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Growth & commercialization

Growth, operations, marketing and ecosystem teams validate products and expand markets.

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