Young Eagle Foundation
USTC · Funding & mentorship
The Young Eagle Foundation provided seed support and guidance so student innovators could build practical tools for the international community on campus.
With gratitude
Acknowledgments
USTC.Ai would not exist without the institutions, mentors, volunteers, and open-source communities that support international students at USTC.
International College (ISO)
Official partner
ISO staff shared policy documents, reviewed workflows, and helped ensure answers align with official registration, visa, and campus procedures. Visit the ISO website.
Faculty advisors
Academic guidance
Faculty mentors from USTC reviewed project scope, ethics, and data handling so the assistant remains a trustworthy supplement to human ISO support.
International student volunteers
Community input
Students from many countries contributed real questions, translation feedback, and usability testing — shaping the chat experience around actual arrival-week needs.
Document contributors
Knowledge base
ISO coordinators and student ambassadors helped curate PDFs, FAQs, and verified Q&A pairs that power retrieval-augmented answers.
Open-source projects
Built with
FastAPI, ChromaDB, Hugging Face embeddings, DeepSeek, and countless open libraries made it possible for a small student team to ship a reliable RAG assistant.
Thank you
If we missed anyone who helped USTC.Ai along the way, please reach out at [email protected] so we can add your name with permission.