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Nest Art Center
Hua qiao cheng
Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518000
China

Bin Tang

Bin Tang is an advocate of Cognitive-Disorder-Friendly Community in China. In 2012, he began establishing charitable organizations focusing on brain health. He also created Jian'ai Public Welfare Center, one of Shanghai's original 12 social organization brands. Over the past nine years, Tang has led his team to engage in community outreach initiatives and partnerships with numerous hospitals to investigate the long-term growth of the Cognitive Disorder-Friendly Community. Tang was additionally chosen by CCTV and the Shanghai government as the Charity Modle of the Year.

Chenin Pan

He and his band often play in the form of BuskingMob, gathering inspirations from the feelings they have while traveling around local places. Their works are presented in different forms, including but not limited to text, sound, video, behavior, installation, etc. <S0D0N+W4VE️骚动波振族> is an artistic practice project held by CheninPan. Driven by the concept of 'Everything is Wave', the content of the creation reflects the philosophy of an infinite kind of connection, as well as the commonality of flow and change, just like the digital totem of the ethnic group’O~o‘.

Dayong Wang

Wang Dayong, the owner of APEXONE Coffee Estate, is a photographer who grows Arabica coffee beans in Gaoligong Mountain. He has served as the secretary-general of Shenzhen Songhe Growth and Care Foundation and Shenzhen IRead Charity Foundation and has been a freelance documentary creator since 2015. 2017 witnessed Wang's encounter with an uninhabited ancient village, Shiti Village, when he was shooting a documentary Coffee in China as a senior media professional. He decided to systematically protect and restore this village. Only a year later, he co-founded Baoshan APEXONE Estate Co. and has been making continuous efforts to research the whole industry chain of Chinese coffee, from seed to cup.

Jiaxing Zhang

Zhangjiaxing, the Chair Scientist of Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Research Center of International Digital Economy Academy, Practice Professor of Tsinghua University(Shenzhen), Adjunct Associate Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen. He graduated from Peking University with a Ph.D. in 2006 and served as a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, a senior algorithm expert at Ant Financial, and a chief scientist of 360 Mathematics. He has published more than 20 academic papers in top academic conferences and journals in the fields of deep learning, distributed systems, physics, and more. He is an early pioneer in the fields of deep learning algorithms, big data frameworks, and machine learning systems, and is currently exploring the next generation of cognitive intelligence technology based on pre-trained large models.

Jie Li

Li Jie is the deputy director and chief curator of Luhu A4 Art Museum. He has been an independent curator since 2006. From 2011 to 2015, he worked as the curator of the A4 Contemporary Art Center, established the A4 Exhibition Academic Department, and constructed the A4 annual exhibition and academic system. Notably, he has devoted himself to the development of experimental art：Organizing and planning international and domestic theme exhibitions and case study projects, and continuously promoting international art exchange, academic research, public education and other work. In 2016, he was awarded a grant from the Asian Cultural Association (ACC) and the inaugural Hyundai Blue Prize for Innovative Future Curators in 2017. In 2021, his book Childhood Art Museum was shortlisted for the first "Blade Book Award" and won the "2021 Beijing News Annual Reading Recommendation" award.

Sica Wang

Sica Wang, an organizing Consultant, certified by KonMari Consultant Official, is a pioneer in sorting and organizing things that are left behind by the deceased. She founded the brands CaSe and Memento, decluttering and disposing of articles from a customized perspective as well as focusing on the issue of life quality. Her stories have been reported by CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, Liberation Daily, Southern Weekly, Global People etc. In 2020, she went to Wuhan and assisted some of those who had lost their family members in the COVID-19 pandemic in organizing those members' items.This experience was recorded in the documentary "断，难舍离". In 2022, she held an Exhibition regarding a family's letters which her team had organized in Shanghai.

Weirong Chen

Chen Weirong is a cartoonist, a joke writer and the director of the Wechat official account "Chen Weirong". He records the life of Shenzhen people with a unique and humorous painting style which is jokingly called as 'soul style' by Shenzhen young people. Chen puts life stories of Shenzhen people in his cartoon drawing and writing, creating popular self-media articles one after another. Chen has many interesting lables, such as a typical Luohu youth, a “Shenzhen second generation” who breaks stereotypes and prejudices, an artistic youth with perception and observation, and an entrepreneur who is never complacent. All these labels together constitute an authentic Chen Weirong.

Yanan Sui

Yanan Sui is an associate professor at Tsinghua University working on Machine Learning, Neural Engineering, and Robotics. He received undergraduate degree from Tsinghua and Ph.D. degree from Caltech, working with Profs. Mu-ming Poo, Joel Burdick, and Yisong Yue. He was a postdoc with Prof. Fei-Fei Li at Stanford before joining Tsinghua. Yanan was listed as one of the MIT TR35 (Innovator Under 35) in China by MIT TechReview in 2020. His work on Safe Optimization has been regularly taught in CS and Aero/Astro courses at multiple universities. His work on Preference Optimization has been applied to clinical treatments, and led to a best paper award at ICRA’20.

Yang Li

Yang Li, assistant professor and PhD. advisor of Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institude, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. Her research focuses on machine learning algorithms and applications for non-IID, few-shot and multimodal data. She has published more than 20 papers in international conference and journals in the field of image processing, spatial temporal data processing and machine learning. She is currently a principal investigator of a Chinese Natural Science Foundation project and a big data project for Shenzhen Organization Department. (Having great interest in the cross-disciplinary application of data science，she has been collaborating with the Shenzhen Municipal Beurau on the study of COVID-19 volunteer behavior data since Fall 2020.)

Yunke Wang

Yunke Wang, also known by her pen name Wang Dake, is the author of the popular science book Love and Sex in the Animal Kingdom. She received the Doctoral degree from the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, EGI, University of Oxford. During her doctoral studies, she investigated the strategic sperm allocation and the cognitive mechanisms of decision-making under different social contexts. She is now working at the Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, and studying the underlying neural mechanisms of mice sexual strategy. In her book Love and Sex in the Animal Kingdom, she explored the relationship between sex and power in a wider context, and presented various cases showing female power.

Yuting Zhuang

Zhuang Yuting Jane, a Ph.D. graduate from the Management Department of Otago University, New Zealand, has lived and worked in New Zealand for 15 years. She is now a tenure track faculty at the School of International Economics and Trade, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance. She is the co-founder of the Research Capability Community and the Qualitative Research Forum, the founder of the China Mask Scheme, and the Metaverse Class. Her main research areas include qualitative research methods and AI, qualitative methodological advancement, historical and cultural clusters, and QDA data analysis software development. Jane spent over ten years teaching; she currently offers Qualitative Research Methods and AI, Data Intelligence and Business Decision-Making, Business and Society: Culture, Aesthetic and Creativity, and Qualitative Research Methods.