Timeline

A life in milestones.

19

2024

Interdisciplinary STEAM coursework at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ranked 8th of 4,000 participants in the RUCODE programming contest.

Scored 1490 on the SAT (Math 790, English 700).

20

2025

Started a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence at East China University of Science and Technology, in Shanghai, and became class leader for the AI major.

Joined Elev8 in Shanghai as an AI engineer intern, working on Stable Diffusion XL training pipelines.

Completed Machine Learning and Neural Networks at the University of Cambridge, building an EfficientNetB0 classifier for breast cancer histopathology images.

Won a 50,000 RUB Yandex Cloud award for a research proposal.

Mentored 250+ developers at Google DevFest '25 and Build With AI '25 in Shanghai.

21

2026

Co-founded MindForm AI in January as CTO, building StableMind: persistent personality and identity infrastructure for AI agents.

Joined Defex as CTO in March: self-teaching assembly robots for manufacturing, backed by NVIDIA Inception, Google for Startups and Z Fellows.

Published StableMind, a preprint on a two-timescale architecture for persistent personality in LLM agents.

Recognized in the 2026 Shanghai University Computer Application Competition for an AI-powered ancient engineering simulation system.

Reached the semifinals of the Google Gemma 4 Competition.

Built an AI-powered student profile platform, and presented it to Ren Youqun, a Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of China.