From L'Oréal Hackathon Champions to Seed Funding — Featured in Synced

Last updated on Sep 13, 2026 1 min read
Synced Feature L'Oréal's Second Hackathon Announcement

A year after winning L’Oréal’s first Beauty Tech Hackathon in China, our team has continued developing our award-winning project. Since then, we have written up our research, filed for patent protection, and secured seed funding.

Synced (机器之心) featured our progress as L’Oréal launched the second edition of the competition. I shared how working on a real beauty-industry problem helped us turn AI capabilities into a practical solution.

Group photo at the launch of L'Oréal's second Beauty Tech Hackathon at WAIC 2026
Launch day at WAIC 2026 📸 — back row, from left: L’Oréal’s Zhenzhen Lan (Public Affairs President), Andreea Lachapelle (Group CAIO), Vincent Boinay (China CEO), Daning Group Chairman Mao Lipeng and L’Oréal’s Feng Zhao (CIO), with tech creator He Tongxue (老师好我叫何同学) also in the group.

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Junwei Li
Junwei Li
Research Fellow

My research interests include Multi-Agent LLM Systems, RAG/Graph-RAG, Educational Technology and compliance-aware AI companions for cloud–edge education and assistive use.