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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. Derek was featured as the cover story in Forbes China magazine. 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.” He has contributed as a co-author to two influential books: Rewiring Education (Chinese Edition) and Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The Future of Education for the 21st Century (Chinese Edition). 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. Derek has also been a featured speaker at leading global events including the ASU+GSV Summit and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and has lectured multiple times at Stanford University. Squirrel Ai Learning has been selected twice as a Stanford Graduate School of Business case study, highlighting its pioneering role in advancing AI-driven personalized education.