{"data":{"activities":{"edges":[{"node":{"frontmatter":{"date":"2026-06-03","title":"German-China-US Innovation Night"},"html":"

Great to bring together friends from Tsinghua, PKU, TUM, LMU, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, ETH, and more for founders session in Shenzhen.

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We talked about creating this kind of forum years ago. Glad we finally brought it to life, despite the political barriers that nearly stopped it from happening. Special thanks to Airwallex for supporting the event, and to Ken for generously lending us your amazing open-floor office.

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Attendees at Shenzhen German-China-US Innovation Night.
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"date":"2026-05-24","title":"Shanghai Pudong Ventures invests 8.4 Million RMB into Urban Robotics Startup"},"html":"

Many thanks to the Shanghai Pudong Gov for recognizing our work and providing an RMB 8.4 Million support package to accelerate our citywide RaaS (robotics-as-a-service) system.

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We’ll make good use of it.

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Trophy in front of event award wall.
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"date":"2026-04-20","title":"Global OpenClaw Business Forum 2026"},"html":"

I shared some thoughts on a roadmaps of moving \"claw\" agents move from demo to genuine enterprise deployment at the OpenClaw Global Business Forum. A packed room of 600+ attendees across academia, industry, and business, including investors and entrepreneurs

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A great milestone for the ecosystem, and an exciting sign of where AI agents are headed.

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Roundtable discussion on drawbacks of current openclaw architecture.
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"date":"2025-12-01","title":"TEDxTsinghua SIGS 2025"},"html":"

Organized the first-ever TEDxTsinghua SIGS, bringing ten international speakers to the stage to share ideas spanning AI, ocean science, and sustainability.

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Ten speakers from six countries shared their perspectives on AI, ocean science, and sustainability with an audience of more than 120 people at the inaugural TEDxTsinghua SIGS. Deep thanks to the TEDx team, our speakers, and everyone who joined us for making the afternoon so memorable.

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https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/65147

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Prof. Ercan E. Kuruoglu (speaker), Prof. Matteo Convertino (speaker), Prof. Florence Jong (mc), Prof Jean-Baptiste M. Dassekpo (speaker), Dean Jian’e Zuo, Felix Gan (organizer/curator), Benjamin H. Lee (speaker)
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"date":"2025-09-01","title":"GCA 2025 Fall Networking Night"},"html":"

The last event I’ll host as President of GCA, an organization I founded a year ago to connect\nscholars from disparate fields and various career stages. A pleasure to grow GCA from a measly group\nof five organizing 30-person events, to a team of 30 organizing 300-person events, with participants coming from five universities and six continents (no penguins in attendance… yet).

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News coverage of the event

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Hosting a final GCA event — grateful to bring together such a thoughtful and inspiring group.
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