Dongyang Mao

Dongyang Mao is Co-Founder and Head of Affairs at GIE (Generative Interactive Entertainment), reporting to CEO Shengyao Xiao. He chairs day-to-day operations and forms cross-department project teams for priority initiatives, driving coordinated delivery across product lines. He also leads teams delivering the core software behind GIE innovations, including user interfaces, applications, and engineering frameworks.

As head of the Affairs Department, Dongyang runs and continually refines an operating model of daily governance, project-team formation, and engineering delivery. He coordinates cross-functional resources and execution cadence to keep critical initiatives moving efficiently. He also brings extensive hands-on experience in interaction design and experience engineering, focusing on information architecture, interface usability, and human-machine collaboration in complex systems to improve product consistency, clarity, and scalability.

Before co-founding GIE, Dongyang led the development and design of the Seastem ship-control interface at Seastem Marine Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., covering interaction flow design, visual monitoring, and optimization of critical operational paths.

Earlier, he conducted research on individualized gaze behavior prediction and pattern modeling at the Image Perception and Interaction (IPI) group of LS2N (Nantes Laboratory of Digital Sciences), with experimental and modeling work on perceptual differences and interactive feedback mechanisms.

Dongyang holds an engineering diploma and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Polytechnic University of Nantes, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Network Engineering from Shanghai Maritime University. His work remains focused on integrating organizational affairs coordination, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering execution.