Tongji University

Tongji University is a Chinese institution whose alumni and faculty figure prominently in the venture-backed startup landscape covered by elsewhere. The bundle surfaces several individuals with Tongji ties: Fan Ling, founder and CEO of AIGC unicorn Tezign, who holds a professorship and directs the Design AI Lab there ; Bai Zeren, an angel investor who earned his engineering bachelor's at Tongji before a Columbia master's and stints at Tencent Cloud ; Gu Jiawei, founder of human-computer interaction startup Ling Universe, who completed his undergraduate studies at Tongji before Tsinghua graduate work and later roles at Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu's deep learning institute ; and Liang Qianhui, founder of N7 Interactive and its Viba platform, who studied architecture at Tongji before MIT Media Lab . The university itself is not profiled as an investment target or corporate entity in the retrieved corpus—elsewhere's coverage treats it primarily as a talent pipeline into China's AI and robotics entrepreneurship ecosystem.