Kai Zhizhong, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto. He is a registered psychotherapist and social worker in China with 18 years of clinical experience. His research interests are the innovation of high-tech psychotherapy and the combination of Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health. He invented and got patents for a new tool for psychotherapy called psy-chess and a 3D sandtray automatic psychological evaluation system. He also acquired software copyright and patents for his scientific research achievements, such as self-service mental health booth, group psychological counseling automatic teaching robot, and AI-based mindfulness practice system.

He is interested in commercializing AI psychological assessment and AI mental health chatbots. He has the market and resources to industrialize research achievement in China. Also, He is starting a business to provide remote intelligent high-quality mental health services for overseas Chinese and Chinese students studying abroad with the above AI technology. Therefore, in his academic work, he also undertook software design and business development work for the research project.

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