Derek Haoyang Li

Derek Haoyang Li is the Founder/Chairman and Chief Education Technology Scientist at Squirrel Ai Learning, a top AI-Unicorn from China. Derek is the Chair of the IEEE Standard Group for LLM Agents for AI-powered Education. As a serial entrepreneur, Derek co-founded two publicly-listed companies. One of the companies had a market cap of $200 million. Squirrel Ai Learning is the leading AI and education innovator and unicorn at the forefront of the K-12 AI revolution. Squirrel Ai launched the world's first LAM (Large Adaptive Model) engine in 2024. Derek created several ingenious educational innovations: "Concepts on Nano-scaled knowledge Components", "AI-Model-Adapted Learning-Skills-Decomposition Methods", "Reconstructing Knowledge Space Theory (KST) with Students' Reasons for Mistakes", "Algorithms on Calculating the Relevance of Probability between Non-relevant Knowledge Components." Derek was featured as the cover story in Forbes China magazine and interviewed in 2024. He has also been interviewed by well-known media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, and has given lectures and talks multiple times at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, and etc.