Fengqi You
Attending COP28
Fengqi You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell University. He is affiliated with multiple Graduate Fields at Cornell, encompassing Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.
Within Cornell, he serves as the Chair of Ph.D. Studies in Systems Engineering, Co-Director of the Cornell University AI for Science Institute (CUAISci), Co-Lead of the Schmidt AI in Science Program, and Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA). Before starting his tenure at Cornell in 2016, he worked at Argonne National Laboratory’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division and served as a faculty member at Northwestern University.
His research focuses on fundamental theory and methods of systems engineering and artificial intelligence, with applications spanning materials informatics, smart manufacturing, digital agriculture, quantum computing, energy systems, and sustainability.
Fengqi has an h-index of 80 and authored over 250 refereed articles in journals such as Science, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS. Parts of his research have earned editorial highlights in Science and Nature, features on dozens of journal covers (e.g., Energy & Environmental Science), and coverage in leading media outlets (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Reuters, The Washington Post, TheWall Street Journal, Fortune, Daily Mail, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Scientific American, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, The Hill, The Guardian, New Scientist, Popular Science, and National Geographic).