About
Fengqi You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell University, where he co-directs the Cornell University AI for Science Institute (CUAISci) and the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) and directs the Cornell AI for Sustainability Initiative (CAISI). His research focuses on AI for sustainability and energy systems. He has published over 300 journal articles in leading journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS, with an h-index of 90. His research has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, BBC, Reuters, and The Washington Post. He has received over 25 major awards and is a Fellow of AIChE, RSC, and AAAS.
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Fengqi You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell University. He holds affiliations with multiple Graduate Fields at Cornell, including Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. Within Cornell, he serves as Co-Director of the Cornell University AI for Science Institute (CUAISci), Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA), and Director of the Cornell AI for Sustainability Initiative (CAISI). Before joining Cornell in 2016, he worked at Argonne National Laboratory’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division and served as a faculty member at Northwestern University. His research focuses on fundamental theories and methods of systems engineering, with applications in materials informatics, smart manufacturing, digital agriculture, energy systems, and sustainability. Fengqi has an h-index of 90 and has authored over 300 refereed articles in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Sustainability, Nature Food, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and PNAS. His research has garnered editorial highlights in Science and Nature, featured on dozens of journal covers (e.g., Energy & Environmental Science), and covered by leading media outlets (e.g., New York Times, BBC, Reuters, Washington Post, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Scientific American, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Hill, CNN, Harvard Business Review,New Scientist, and National Geographic). He is an award-winning scholar and teacher, having received over 25 major national and international awards in the past six years from leading professional organizations such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and American Automatic Control Council (AACC), in addition to multiple best paper awards. Selected ones include the NSF CAREER Award (2016), AIChE Environmental Division Early Career Award (2017), AIChE Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering Award (2017), Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Outstanding Young Researcher Award from AIChE (2018), Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award (2018), ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award (2018), AIChE Excellence in Process Development Research Award (2019), AIChE Innovations in Green Process Engineering Award (2020), Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker Excellence in Teaching Award (2020), ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award (2020), O. Hugo Schuck Award from AACC (2020), AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award (2021), AIChE George Lappin Award (2022), Stratis V. Sotirchos Lectureship Award by the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH) (2022), and the Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering (2024). He serves as an editor of Computers & Chemical Engineering; associate editor of the AAAS journal Science Advances, Applied Energy, and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; consulting editor of the AIChE Journal; subject editor of Advances in Applied Energy; guest editor of Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews; and was on the editorial boards of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, PRX Energy, and more. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the AIChE, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Research Interests
Industrial ecology, life cycle assessment/optimization, and circular economy
Website contributions from this member
| 17 Feb 2025 |
Research Assistant Positions in LCA & MFA at Cornell University |
| 17 Feb 2025 |
AI4S Postdoctoral Associate Program at Cornell University |
| 30 Dec 2024 |
AI4S Postdoctoral Associate Program at Cornell University |
| 09 Nov 2024 |
Cornell University AI for Sustainability (AI4S) Visiting Professorship |
| 09 Nov 2024 |
Ezra Postdoctoral Associate in Energy Systems Engineering |
| 12 Oct 2024 |
Research Assistant (MS or PhD) |
| 10 May 2024 |
Ezra Postdoctoral Associate in Energy Systems Engineering |
| 30 Mar 2024 |
Research Assistant (MS or PhD) |
| 17 Feb 2024 |
Research/Postdoc Fellows on LCA, MFA, or AI for sustainability |
| 26 Dec 2023 |
Research/Postdoc Fellows on LCA, MFA, or AI for sustainability |
| 12 Sep 2023 |
Postdoc Research Fellows on LCA, MFA, CE, or AI for Sustainability |
| 11 Sep 2023 |
Postdoc Fellows and Research Associates on LCA, MFA, or AI for Sustainability |
| 31 May 2023 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellows on LCA, MFA, or AI for sustainability |
