Fengqi You is a professor and holds the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Chair at Cornell University in the United States.

[11] 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.

[19] Fengqi You teaches courses on computational optimization, machine learning, deep learning,[20] quantum computing and artificial intelligence,[21] and process design.

[22] He developed a graduate certificate program on Computational and Data Science.

[23] There are news media reports about his research on quantum artificial intelligence,[24] renewable energy transition,[25] smart energy systems,[26] solar energy materials,[27] electric vehicle batteries,[28] water management,[29] climate impacts of hybrid events and metaverse,[30] carbon neutrality,[31][32] microplastics,[33] plastics and medical waste recycling,[34] carbon footprint accounting,[35][36] crypto,[37] the environmental effects of bitcoin,[38] and AI in Science.