Fengqi You

Fengqi You is a professor and holds the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Chair at Cornell University in the United States. His research focuses on systems engineering and data science. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 106.

Career Fengqi You completed his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University, and received his Ph.D. in 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University. After working at Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, he moved to Cornell University, where he holds positions in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Applied Information Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. He is co-director of Cornell Institute of Digital Agriculture, and Chair of Ph.D. Studies in Cornell Systems Engineering. He co-directs Cornell University AI for Science Institute (CUAISci) and co-leads the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Cornell with Carla Gomes. He is also the director of the Cornell AI4S Initiative (CAISI).

You is an associate editor of Science Advances, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, an associate editor of Applied Energy, and editor of Computers & Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on AI for Science, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, AIChE Journal, and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

Teaching and research Fengqi You teaches courses on computational optimization, machine learning, deep learning, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, AI for materials, AI for sustainability, and process design. He developed a graduate certificate program on Computational and Data Science. He also teaches courses on AI for Materials, AI for Sustainability, AI for Science, AI for Energy Systems, and AI for Digital Agriculture. There are news media reports about his research on quantum artificial intelligence, renewable energy transition, smart energy systems, solar energy materials, electric vehicle batteries, water management, climate impacts of hybrid events and metaverse, carbon neutrality, microplastics, plastics and medical waste recycling, carbon footprint accounting, crypto, the environmental effects of bitcoin, digital agriculture, AI for materials, and AI in Science.

Awards 2010 — Carnegie Mellon University Ken Meyer Award 2013 — Northwestern-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award 2016 — NSF Career Award 2017 — American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environmental Division Award 2017 — Sustainable Engineering Research Award 2018 — Cornell Research Excellence Award 2018 — ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award 2019 — Excellence in Process Development Research Award by AIChE 2020 — Program Committee's Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering 2020 — Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from American Society for Engineering Education 2020 — American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Award 2021 — Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) 2022 — Stratis V. Sotirchos Lectureship Award, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas 2022 — Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE Fellow) 2023 — Fellow of AAAS 2024 — Amazon Research Award 2024 — Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering 2026 — AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering 2026 — AIChE David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education