Entrepreneurship Alumni Association
Founder & CEO of JobEnE
Ziyi Liu
Ziyi Liu is the founder and CEO of Jobene, a platform that is revolutionizing traditional career exploration through technology. Jobene is a metaverse-based career platform designed to help young people find the right career path through immersive job experiences.
The platform offers virtual job role experiences, enabling students to easily explore industries and job responsibilities, while discovering their own interests and potential. At the same time, Jobene uses big data to provide personalized career development insights and helps companies precisely match with the right talent.
To date, Jobene has attracted over 600,000 users and expanded to markets in Hong Kong, the Middle East, and North America, earning the trust and collaboration of numerous enterprises. Ziyi is dedicated to breaking the traditional job search process through technological innovation and building stronger connections between students and companies.
Youyisi Technology
Fei Yang
Yang Fei entered the Communication Engineering program at XJTLU in 2006 and completed my Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at the University of Liverpool. After graduation, I worked in the UK for several years before returning to China in 2019 to establish Wuhan Youyisi Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Entrepreneurial Journey: In the early stages of our business, we focused on overseas markets and successively launched several Web3 and metaverse products aimed at end-users (C-end). Since the end of 2022, company has strategically shifted towards the field of large language models, concentrating on providing customized development services for businesses and governments. By empowering traditional IT projects with AI, we have helped our clients achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement, while also promoting digital transformation within enterprises, which has won widespread recognition from the market and our clients.
Since the establishment of the company, we have achieved the following:
- Recognized as a Hubei Province Technology-based Small and Medium Enterprise
- Obtained dozens of software copyrights and patent results
- Collaborative enterprise for innovation and entrepreneurship with Hunan Institute of Engineering
- Industry-academia-research partner with the Big Data College of Hubei University of Technology”
Suzhou ZunDu Network Technology Co.
Zhao Dongjun
Zhao Dongjun, the founder of Suzhou ZunDu Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Huzhou JiaDu E-commerce Co., Ltd. during his university years, specializes in selling home appliances on the Douyin platform. Over three years, the total sales volume of washing machines across all platforms exceeded 100 million, and refrigerator sales exceeded 10 million. He has made the top 30 in the 3C digital category on Douyin multiple times, with the highest record at 5th place, surpassing the live broadcast sales of official stores such as Huawei and vivo. He has also achieved the top monthly sales volume for home appliance single products and topped the store growth charts on multiple occasions.
Entrepreneurial Journey
2017 Selling Beats headphones on Taobao
2018-2019 Sneaker authentication
2019-2024 WeChat private operations, selling goods on Xianyu
2019-2020 Sneaker wholesale
2020-2021 Overseas goods transit
2021-2022 Douyin video accounts operation (copywriting and shooting), Douyin local life (collaborating with Huzhou Normal University students for store exploration), Red book account operation
2022-2024 Selling home appliances on major e-commerce platforms such as Douyin Mall, Taobao, and 1688
Additionally, there have been various entrepreneurial attempts, including community group purchases, promotional sales, and WeChat account development.
Amy Robotics
Ruijiao Li
Li Ruijiao graduated from XJTLU in 2018, majoring in Information and Computational Science. Dr. Li holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Fudan University, an M.Sc. in Robotics from the University of Essex in the UK, and a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Liverpool. He is a member of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, a committee member of the IEEE SMC, and a leading talent in entrepreneurship in Linping, Hangzhou.
With over fifteen years of experience in artificial intelligence and robotics research, Dr. Li’s research interests include multi-agent collaboration, multi-robot systems, autonomous navigation and planning, and robot system design. He has published numerous papers in internationally renowned conferences and journals. He has served at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. Dr. Li participated in and led research projects on intelligent life assistance for the elderly funded by the European Union. As a pioneer in cloud robotics research, he is the original author of the Wikipedia entry on cloud robotics. As one of the early entrepreneurs in China’s service robotics industry, he co-founded Amy Robotics, which secured over 50 million RMB in financing and became one of the first Chinese service robotics companies to sell robots in bulk to multiple countries overseas. He has designed and developed various robot products that have been launched to the market, exerting a broad influence on service robotics. Dr. Li has extensive experience in the robotics industry, R&D and productization, supply chain and manufacturing, and industry-academia cooperation. He has been nominated for the British Council’s Outstanding Alumni Award, named the University of Liverpool’s Alumni of the Year, and recognized as an Outstanding Alumni by the University of Essex.
Founder and CEO of Shanghai Hecbert Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Wencan Wang
Alumnus of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Computer Science, Class of 2008), with a master’s degree from University College London (UCL).
He has served as a senior executive for several well-known listed companies, including Fosun Group, with a cumulative investment and financing scale exceeding 12 billion yuan. Wang has received numerous honors, including “Founder of Shanghai Key Cultivated Start-up Enterprises” (youngest), “Pioneer of Shanghai Urban Digital Transformation” (only private enterprise representative), “Excellent Entrepreneur of Zhangjiang Hi-Tech”, “Suzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Talent” (first from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), “Sci-Tech Star of Suzhou Taihu National Resort District”, and “Excellent Representative of Overseas Students Entrepreneurs in Shanghai”. In 2023, he was interviewed by Xinmin Evening News, a publication under the Shanghai Municipal Committee, as a representative of Shanghai private tech entrepreneurs. In 2024, he was selected for the “Shanghai Overseas Returnee Unicorn Training Camp” and invited to the “ESG World Leaders Conference”. Since his entrepreneurship, he has served over 100 well-known domestic AI scene cases, such as Shanghai Zhangjiang AI Island, Airbus China, and Schneider Electric, accumulating deep expertise and practical experience in the AI field.
CSO Education Group
David Wu
David Wu, who graduated from Western University and XJTLU, is currently pursuing his DBA at Euncet Business School in Spain. He is the founder and chairman of CSO Education Group, director of the Panda Learning App, secretary-general of the XJTLU Hubei Alumni Association, and director of the Wuhan Young Entrepreneurs Association. He is a cheerful, sociable, quick-thinking, innovative, passionate, and mission-driven young entrepreneur. David Wu always adheres to the philosophy of “integrating Eastern and Western learning, seeking knowledge from all directions,” and is committed to providing more valuable educational services and experiences for the international student community.
Entrepreneurial Journey
Million-Follower Platform
Established a new media platform focusing on international students, aiming to provide valuable information, guidance on student life, and academic support for this community. With its precise market positioning, the platform quickly attracted a large following and accumulated over a million fans, becoming an important social platform within the international student community.
2016 International Student Course Platform
Aimed at providing global students with learning opportunities about Chinese culture, language, and summer camp programs. Through its rich curriculum content and cultural exchange activities, the platform has attracted a large number of international students to China to gain a deep understanding of China’s traditional and modern education.
2018 CSO Education Group
In 2018, the CSO Education Group was established, focusing on providing comprehensive educational services for Chinese students studying abroad. As the founder and chairman, he has led SISO Education in continuous innovation within the field of study abroad services, helping these students enhance their global competitiveness and cultivating future leaders with innovative capabilities. With its online education platform and diversified services, SISO Education has successfully stayed at the forefront of the industry.
Founder and CEO of Zhichuang Yuji Culture Media Technology Co., Ltd.
Zhu Yongqi
Zhu Yongqi holds a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and a master’s degree in Marketing from the University of Sydney.
The company’s strategic objective is to develop a global ecosystem for international students through a “decentralized + IP incubation” model, establishing a worldwide marketing talent network to empower Jiangsu-based enterprises in achieving “external IP-driven branding and internal AI-driven transformation.” Currently, the international student ecosystem boasts over 100,000 members, primarily active in Suzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, London, Sydney, and other key cities. The team has incubated more than 100 IP projects, including 50+ Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) influencers with 10,000+ followers targeting international student communities and 20+ salon hosts.
