Lan Li
Founder at HeyEmmett.com
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLan Li is a founder and PhD student in Information Sciences at UIUC with nine years of technical and startup experience building AI-first products that scale. He founded Assembo.ai to create content-marketing AI agents and later launched HeyEmmett.com to help brands rank in AI-native search surfaces like ChatGPT and Claude. His background includes product engineering at DJI and early leadership in automotive and robotics projects, giving him a strong systems and hardware-aware perspective on AI productization. Lan blends hands-on engineering, go-to-market growth (helping acquire 60K SMB users for an AI photo/video app), and NSF I-Corps startup experience. Based in Champaign, he also cultivates an online creator presence as @aistartupfren, translating technical insights into accessible content. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic founder who moves quickly from research to revenue-focused product iterations.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMinor in Technological Entrepreneurship Technological Entrepreneurship, Minor in Technological Entrepreneurship Technological Entrepreneurship at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (30)
crossword10
reconciliation10
java10
data-wrangling10
data-science9
openrefine9
wikimedia9
data-analysis9
wikidata9
journalism9
python8
data-manipulation8
traits7
jupyter-extension6
jupyterlab5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LanLi2017/FD_CFD_extraction
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Code to extract functional dependencies (FDs) and conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) from data
Contributions:32 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
dependenciesfdsconditionaldependency-analysistraits
LanLi2017/OR2YWTool
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:65 commits, 59 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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