Where does Yicong Li work?

Yicong Li is Venture Fellow at FoundersX Ventures.

Where did Yicong Li go to school?

Yicong Li studied at Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cross-registration, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Harvard University (Master of Science - MS, Bioengineering).

Yicong Li

Investor

Venture Fellow at FoundersX Ventures

Greater Boston

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About

Yicong Li is a computer science PhD candidate at Harvard advised by Hanspeter Pfister, conducting research in vision language model post-training, agentic systems, computer vision, and generative models with applications in neuroscience and healthcare. He is currently a research intern at Netflix and maintains an investment focus on full-stack AI including compute infrastructure, physical AI, and agentic solutions. Li has led a student organization of over 70 members at Harvard serving thousands of students and scholars.

Experience

NetflixResearch Interncurrent2026 — presentLos Gatos, CA
FoundersX VenturesVenture Fellowcurrent2026 — presentCambridge, MA
GenentechResearch Intern2025South San Francisco, CA
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteVisiting Student2024 — 2025Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Simons FoundationGuest Researcher2023 — 2024New York, NY
Simons FoundationSummer Research Associate2023New York, NY
Harvard GSAS Business ClubMini-MBA2024Boston, MA
MicrosoftResearch Intern2024Cambridge, MA
Linear CapitalVenture Fellow2022 — 2023Shanghai, China
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Intern2020 — 2022Cambridge, MA
Harvard Medical SchoolResearch Intern2021Boston, MA
HuaweiResearch Intern2021Shenzhen
Humanitarian Affairs AsiaDelegate2018Bangkok City, Thailand
Montessori Model UNDelegate2011New York, NY

Skills & more

Languages Chinese · English

Social and Behavioral Research Investigators — CITI Program
Engineering Responsible Conduct of Research — CITI Program
Data Parallelism: How to Train Deep Learning Models on Multiple GPUs — NVIDIA
Fundamentals of Deep Learning — NVIDIA

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Colleagues at FoundersX Ventures

Devin Lai

Investment Associate at FoundersX Ventures

Helen Liang

Founder & General Partner at FoundersX Ventures

Irene Tsen

Investment Associate at FoundersX Ventures

Leo Cui

General Partner at FoundersX Ventures

Sizi Chen

General Partner at FoundersX Ventures

Tom Kosnik

Partner at FoundersX Ventures

Tor Parawell

Partner at FoundersX Ventures

Tristan Staschik

Partner at FoundersX Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Yicong Li?: Yicong Li is a computer science PhD candidate at Harvard advised by Hanspeter Pfister, conducting research in vision language model post-training, agentic systems, computer vision, and generative models with applications in neuroscience and healthcare. He is currently a research intern at Netflix and maintains an investment focus on full-stack AI including compute infrastructure, physical AI, and agentic solutions. Li has led a student organization of over 70 members at Harvard serving thousands of students and scholars.
Where does Yicong Li work?: Yicong Li is Venture Fellow at FoundersX Ventures.
Where did Yicong Li go to school?: Yicong Li studied at Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cross-registration, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Harvard University (Master of Science - MS, Bioengineering).