Tianhui Li
Co-Founder at Princeton Quant Trading Conference
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTianhui Li is a Princeton-trained computational mathematician and two-time startup founder with 12 years of experience building data-driven products and teams, most recently co-founding a stealth AI startup in New York. He founded The Data Incubator and served as CTO at Aerial, combining hands-on ML/product engineering with strategic leadership that led to an exit and partnerships with top-tier investors. His background spans quant trading, data science at Foursquare and Andreessen Horowitz, and early-career research at NASA and Cornell Tech, reflecting comfort moving between research and production. A frequent contributor to HBR, Wired, TechCrunch and the WSJ, he translates technical ideas into business impact and public insight. He chairs the Princeton Quant Trading Conference and advises startups, bringing a rare mix of academic rigor, operator experience, and public-facing thought leadership. An intriguing aside: his early work included designing a desktop fusion reactor at NASA, signaling a lifelong appetite for audacious technical projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Mathematical Statistics and Probability at University of CambridgePostdoc, Postdoc at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics,, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics, at Princeton University
English, French, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
arabic-nlp10
material-ui10
crawler10
schema10
brian10
type-inference10
dao10
browser10
data-preprocessing10
api10
corenlp10
nlp10
schema-validation10
data-science10
static-site-generator10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tianhuil/pfqc
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
PFQC Website
Contributions:6 reviews, 119 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
thedataincubator/GAE-Timing
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythonapp-engineskeletonflaskflask-framework
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