YouthMind Team Introduction

1 Our Team

Youthmind is an international and interdisciplinary innovation team composed of 11 young members from the UK, China, Switzerland, and the Middle East. Core members come from the University of Bristol, University of Birmingham Dubai Campus, University of Manchester, and University of the Arts London, covering disciplines such as artificial intelligence, computer science, financial investment, accounting, and data visualization design. Our members have played key roles in international projects, promoting and implementing solutions in fields such as medical AI, digital art, Web3 social platforms, and AI educational tools.

2 Founder

Founder Qingshi Wang is currently studying Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He is a leading youth figure at the intersection of scientific innovation, emotional AI, and cross-disciplinary applications. Wang is the founder of the Swiss-registered nonprofit Youthmind Association, founder and CEO of Beijing Youmai Technology Co., Ltd., and co-founder of the BIM International Youth Alliance, which promotes the integration of youth-led technological innovation and emotional well-being. During secondary school, he won 38 national and international awards in science and technology innovation, including First Prize at the Global Natural History Day Finals, the Silver Award of the Yau Mathematical Biology Competition, and the “China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award,” demonstrating outstanding research potential.

Currently, he is leading the development of the REFT (Representation-Enhanced Fusion Transformer) architecture, which proposes integrating emotional and semantic representations to improve AI comprehension. This architecture has been successfully registered with the UK Copyright Service. Alongside Yin Li, he co-developed the AS emotional computing model, which incorporates both semantic understanding and AI-generated emotional reactions, laying a technical foundation for “machine empathy.” His representative paper, Beyond Semantics: The Next-Generation Transformer Integrating Emotional Representations, was published in 2025 and has drawn significant academic and industry attention.

Wang previously served as the project lead for emotional AI research at Stanford University’s Center for Mindfulness and has been invited to speak at several international forums, including AI for Young, the CEPO Health AI Forum, and the Spring International Future Forum. His emotional AI algorithm was also integrated into artist Xiaohui Wang’s exhibition Red Child · Blue Butterfly, enabling real-time emotional interaction between AI and viewers, highlighting the deep integration of technology and art.

Founder Yin Li is currently an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Birmingham (Dubai campus). He is a globally-minded and execution-driven young AI practitioner passionate about artificial intelligence, programming, and data analytics. Proficient in JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript, and more, his interests span medical AI, financial AI, blockchain, Web3, and digital transformation. As CTO of the youth tech organization Youthmind, he has led multiple acclaimed AI projects, including a smart traffic management platform in Dubai, a multilingual image recognition system with 97% accuracy, a multimodal medical AI model based on LLaMA, and an Islamic art NFT platform. He has also contributed to AI and VR projects at companies like Goldon, BOXIN, and GuildHall, and currently serves as Chief Engineer at Liba Space.

Li has won numerous international awards, including First Prize at the 8th IET GCC Robotics and AI Challenge, First Place at NYU Abu Dhabi’s competition, and Champion of Microsoft’s AI Agent Challenge. He has published research on explainable AI in the context of healthcare and finance. In the realm of social engagement, he serves as CTO of both Queel and Youthmind, and has held roles such as international project coordinator for Alibaba at Gitex, official interpreter and presenter for China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism at Expo City Dubai, and roundtable guest at the Huawei 2025 AI Summit. He has been invited to speak at TEDx Dubai and actively leads the Dubai AI Student Community. His strong cross-cultural communication skills and leadership make him a key force in the global youth AI movement.

3 Core Technical Team

Youthmind’s technical strength comes from a core group of developers and researchers with strong backgrounds in full-stack engineering, AI system design, and human-centered computing.

- Yin Li (CTO): Leads YouthMind’s AI architecture and builds the full tech stack, including the current AS model. A published researcher, TEDx Dubai speaker, and multi-time hackathon winner, he has presented at Gitex, Huawei AI Summits, and Expo 2020 Dubai. Former CTO and chief AI engineer at multiple companies, known for turning cutting-edge research into emotionally intelligent, scalable products. Expert in NLP, CV, Agents, LLMs and advanced AI fields.
- Dawei Bao: Full-stack and game developer from University of Bristol. Experienced in COCOS game engine development, Unity, Unreal Engine, and back-end API integration.
- Mustafo Ziyamukhamedov: A financial modeling, and medical CNNs. Winner of GCC Robotics engineer with experience in web scraping, Challenge. Developed a progam for a large ecommerce store, with ~3000 employees, that automates the process of market analysis by integrating AI and the web, resulting in 80% faster strategic decisions regarding that data.
- Mohammad Junayd Imran: A Project Manager and Backend Developer with a foundation in software engineering, artificial intelligence, and system design. He is the creator of ACE, a cross-platform graphical interface for Ollama, which enables users to run large language models locally and also process documents in the form of PDFs and images.
- Alexander Ryskulov: A Static and non-static code analysis supervisor providing analysis of efficiency of production- full stack developer mainly focusing on front end - previouise expereince data analysist for e-commerce creating experience in working with databases - cleaning and manipulating data using python.

- Youssef Mounir: A product analyst where i product the vision and road map. I conduct market and user research to validate ideas, but i work closely with designers and both front/back end developers to build and implement features. Certified in prompt engineering and went through numerous MUN's being able to analyze and solving problems.
- Dexter (Full-Stack Developer): Works on building and maintaining YouthMind’s full-stack systems. He has experience in app development through a team project and is focused on creating reliable, user-friendly features. Passionate about learning and problem-solving, Dexter supports the team in turning ideas into real products.

4 Strategic & Creative Support Team

Beyond the technical core, Youthmind is supported by a strong foundation in financial modeling, strategic planning, and creative design.

- Shenhai Zhang: MSc in Finance from University of Bristol. Former analyst at multiple private equity firms. Specializes in investment modeling and business development.
- Yinuo Wang: MSc in Accounting & Finance. Participated in IPO audit projects and has worked in top accounting firms including Zhonghui and Lixin.
- Xiaoxuan Zhu: MA in Data Visualization Design from UAL. Experienced in visual storytelling, UI/UX design, and art-tech exhibitions in both China and the UK.

5. Vision & Outlook

Youthmind is not just a team of young AI developers—it is a bridge between emotion and intelligence, between design and technology, between human expression and machine understanding.Our members have played key roles in international projects, promoting and implementing solutions in fields such as medical AI, digital art, Web3 social platforms, and AI educational tools.