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Founder of NYSE-listed CooTek, initiator of the Superbrain AI incubator, investment partner at Yunqi Partners, and angel investor. He serves as secretary-general of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's AI Alumni Association and previously led its Institute of Industrial Technology. After graduating in electronic engineering in 2005, he joined Microsoft as a product manager. He founded CooTek in 2008 and led its NYSE listing in 2018. His honors include recognition as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and his team earned a Global Mobile Award. He is also a CPCC Co-Active coach, a Sequoia peer-advisory coach, and an executive and founder coach.

A member of Minerva University's founding graduating class, Xijia is a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and a researcher at Stanford HAI. Her work explores the intersection of human development and AI learning, with a focus on curiosity and attachment. She has received the Setsuko Oka Fellowship and Amir Lopatin Award.

A positive psychology practitioner, former aide to a San Francisco city supervisor, communications adviser to entrepreneurs, and host of Shao Heng Headlines, a podcast on Dedao with a million listeners. Before turning 30, she ran tirelessly on the wheel of career achievement. After 30, she stepped off that wheel and moved to California to explore a balance between family life and personal accomplishment.

A psychology PhD, registered supervisor with the Chinese Psychological Society, IAAP Jungian analyst, CSST sandplay therapist, and DCAP hypnotherapist. She formerly directed the Psychological Counseling Research Center at South China Normal University and chaired the counseling and psychotherapy committee of the Guangdong Psychological Society. She was also an international scholar and researcher at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Now based in San Francisco, she focuses on psychoanalytic work with neuroses and personality disorders, sandplay, dream work, and mental health education for Chinese families.

An ICF-certified Co-Active coach (CPCC/ACC) and host of the Love and Freedom podcast, Shayna works across media, psychology, and spiritual inquiry. A former television reporter and presenter, she brings together coaching, healing through stories, and Eastern and Western perspectives to support overseas Chinese communities in exploring identity, relationships, and meaning. Since becoming a mother, she has studied the psychological transition of matrescence, drawing on personal experience to help women find strength through changing identities.

San Francisco City Hall reporter for the World Journal's San Francisco bureau. 'Relationships are a mirror that helps us see ourselves clearly. I am grateful to my partner for holding that mirror so faithfully.'