Hi!

Welcome to the profile of Daman YANG.

I am currently a junior undergrad student in South China University of Technology (華南理工大學 SCUT), majoring in Robotics Engineering at Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering and minoring in Law.

Currently I am having academic courses (English-Medium-Instruction) and doing research and development in Prof. Shaofeng LU’s research program on Smart Transport Lighting, participating as the person-in-charge of National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates. Additionally, I am also exploring the domain of HCI and Embodied Intelligence, basing on my coursework project “Vision-based Logistics Grasper Robot Vehicle” and startup project “EchoBoard: Desk-space Smart Assistant Keyboard”. My research interests lie in the domain of embedded systems, distributed computing, HCI and IoT. I am expecting more research opportunities!

Beyond my research pursuits, I am also the co-founder of a tech startup, serving Turinno Inc. and taking the responsibility of R&D especially software engineering and AI integration. We mainly focus on AIoT Smart Hardware and our first product is a smart low-profile mechanical keyboard equipped with a smart touch bar with mics which is the bridge to our AI agent assistant. It is now at the stage of EVT (Engineering Verification Test). We warmly welcome investors and founders to get in touch with us!

I regard myself as an engineer-like and PM-like Product Engineer, attentive to all aspects of building something from 0 to 1 – from marketing, business and SCM to R&D and delivery etc. – not just the technology.

Look forward to any opportunities and communications about research and startup. Please feel free to reach out to me and engage in discussions on any topic.

More details via: Personal Profile by Feishu Document

Our company’s website: Turinno Inc.

My CV/Resume: Download my CV

INFORMATION

• Legal name: Di-nan YANG
• Preferred name: Daman YEUNG (Cantonese)
• Email
  • wi_daman@mail.scut.edu.cn (academic)
  • daman@turinno.co (startup)
  • dmycn@outlook.com (personal)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damanyeung
• Addr: E5a, Guangzhou Intl Campus, South China University of Technology, Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

EDUCATION

B.Eng. in Robotics Engineering, Minor in Law (LL.B.)

South China University of Technology (SCUT)

Sep 2024 – Jul 2028

• Modules: C++ Programming: 4.0/4.0; Python Programming: 4.0/4.0; Engineering Math: 4.0/4.0
• English Medium Instruction (EMI); College English Test Level 6 (CET-6 587)
• Course Practice: Traffic Detection System with YOLO; Vision-based Logistics Grasper Robot Vehicle with RL

Summer School, Embodied Intelligence and Robotics

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Aug 2026

• Modules: Robot kinematics, Reinforcement learning, HRI, Multimodal perception and sensing etc.

EXPERIENCE

Co-founder, CEO, CTO

Turinno Inc. & CITATEK ZS LIMITED

Aug 2024 - Present

• Leading a team of 10 to work on AIoT Smart Hardware and company’s other business (software outsourcing etc.).
• Overseeing the R&D Dept. to carry out the development on software, hardware, and industrial design.
• Representing the company to participate in activities about fundraising and business (Global Sources HK).
• Preparing to launch the first product on CES 2027 and Kickstarter.

Team Leader

China-U.S. Young Maker Competition, Shenzhen Division

Jun 2026

• Led the Turinno team to participate and developed products of the proactive ambient AI hardware.
• Present and pitch the Turinno EchoBoard and Turinno Intelligence. Advanced to semi-final.

Student Researcher PIC (Person-In-Charge)

National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates

May 2026 - May 2027

Advised by Prof. LU, Shaofeng, South China University of Technology

• Person-In-Charge of the project; taking charge of the R&D on Communications, Embedded Systems, Cloud Service.
• Collaborating with teammates, keeping in touch and giving the pitch with the enterprise-side staff.

Startup Participant & Team Leader

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen x PAVD Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

Apr 2025

• Studied the themed lectures on pitching, fundraising, partner’s relations given by Prof. Chau of EMBA@CUHK.
• Leading the team to reconstruct the pitch deck and give a pitch about the Turinno.

Founding President & Chief Lecturer

Computer & Info Tech Association at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Secondary School

Jul 2022 - Sep 2023

• Completed the establishment and gave lectures to the members.
• Led and participated in activities, finishing a 100K-CNY business closed loop by developing brick set product.
• Developed several software programs and guided members to study knowledge of IT and programming.

PROJECTS

AIoT Smart Keyboard & Bar Integrated with Proactive Agentic Assistant

Jun 2025 - Present

• A startup project which aims at building an AI + IoT hardware eco-system in desk-space.
• Implementing a wireless low-profile mechanical keyboard with top-tier industrial design that works with Thread, a smart interactive bar equipped with a display and mic supporting voiceprint-based auto recording and smart shortcuts, and a proactive agentic assistant supporting speech analysis & summary and MCP execution such as email, notification etc. in the forms of App, Cloud, and Edge OS.
• Technical stack: ESP32, ESP-IDF, Nordic nRF, OpenThread, Bluetooth, React Native, Node.js, Agent dev etc.
• Software copyrights: 1 granted, 2 submitted; Patents: 2 in preparation.

Perception-based Accompanying Smart Lighting System

Mar 2025 - Present

• Designed a Long-range Communication Topological Architecture, achieving the safe and efficient communication.
• Implemented the vision-based vehicle detection and environment sensing to adjust the brightness automatically and achieve the accompanying lighting control, supporting remote control and data synchronization.
• Preparing to deploy and test the system on real roads to collect more data and optimize the algorithms.
• Technical stack: ESP32, STM32, LoRa, Arduino, FreeRTOS, Java Web, SpringBoot, WebSocket.
• 2 invention patents filed (second author), 1 paper submitted to JOCA (CSCD, PKU Core).

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for Community Healthcare Center

Jan 2026 - May 2026

• Turinno Guangzhou Inc. x Guangzhou Ruiyuan Tech Co., Ltd. at Pazhou Lab (Guangdong Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Laboratory) Co-work Project of Medical Big Data.
• Utilizing web software, RPA tools, and AI to implement data cleaning and auto writing to City Health Database.
• Technical stack: Java, SpringBoot, Python, Selenium, DeepSeek API, MySQL.

Vision-based Logistics Grasper Robot Vehicle (Engineering Innovation coursework)

Mar 2026 - Jun 2026

• Leader of the project, led the design and selection of the robot. Developed the embedded and electronic control.
• Implemented a robot with Mecanum Wheels that can grasp and place target items automatically via vision ML.
• Technical stack: Mech. design, ESP32, Linux on RK3588S, Python, YOLO, NN & ML on RK platform.

One-stop Online Campus Platform (During High School)

Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

• Won the 1st prize in the National Student Information Literacy Improvement Activity held by Ministry of Education.
• An online platform for students and staff to post, announce, issue, query anything via Web + Mini-program.
• Implemented functions of forum, student data management, excel parsing, requirement collection etc.
• Technical stack: Service (Java, SpringBoot, MySQL); Web (Vue.js); WeChat mini-program (WXML).

Last but not least

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I regard myself as a product innovator with consistent and multi-faceted background – solid engineering capabilities and an integrated mindset of product, design, and business. I’ve been learning programming since 11, completely driven by my personal interest. My journey of innovation started in my Senior High. Conducting survey on campus service, developing online platform for school, founding an IT Student Association, winning 1st prize in the MoE-held national-level competition, and finishing a business at the final amount of 100K CNY, these are the most extraordinary things that I’ve done during my high school. Right after I finished the College Entrance Examination (Gaokao), I walked onto the pathway of startup and is currently studying Robotics and Law(Minor) at South China U of Tech. Here at SCUT, I’ve been improving my technical and business capabilities. I’ve participated in several academic researches and enterprise projects. Also, I attended many activities about innovation and startup, such as Canton Fair, XbotPark activities, CUHK-SZ Boot Camp, HKUST(GZ) INNOTECH etc.

I would like to describe myself that, I am born to be a startup founder, and my growth of my first 18 years are naturally guiding me to become that. I’m devoted to nothing but innovating. I believe that life is full of passion and you only live once. Looking forward to meeting with you someday!