How AI and human teachers can collaborate to transform education
Institutions must invest in the infrastructure to use AI in education and train teachers to use it – while also ensuring this tech is available to all.
Derek Haoyang Li is the Founder and Chief Education Technology Scientist at Squirrel Ai Learning, a top 20 AI-Unicorn in China. He is the Vice Chair of the Intelligent Education Sub-Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation and also the Chair of the IEEE Artificial Intelligence LLM-4EDU Standards Group. Derek was featured as the cover story in Forbes China magazine and interviewed.
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 also 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.”