Beijing

If you are based in Beijing, we encourage you to connect with Li at future alumni events and help us continue building a vibrant and engaged alumni network.

You can join the Beijing Alumni WeChat group by adding Li on WeChat with his username liwang_ap. 

Qualification: BE specialising in Engsci (Applied Maths)

Current role: Founder/CEO of JANUS AI 

Best memory from student days at Auckland?

• The camaraderie between the students. It was a huge melting pot of different backgrounds, histories, and ethnicities.
• Constantly rushing between the Law School, the Engineering Science labs at 60 Symonds Street, and the Business School.

Where do you currently live, and what took you there?

• I currently live in Beijing, China.
• A set of interesting career and life decisions took me here.

What is your current role? 

• I am the founder and CEO of JANUS AI, an AI-native invest-tech company helping AM&W clients achieve better and more sustainable investment outcomes.

• It is hard to know what you will be doing a decade out from university. I think the most important learning from my time at university was a belief in what is possible, combined with the anchored discipline needed to achieve your goals.

What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

• Swimming, archery — less so now — and diving.
• Mostly frontier AI research and other reading.

What made you want to be a Volunteer Alumni Co-ordinator (VAC) for the University?

• I wanted to be a VAC because I believe alumni networks are at their best when they are active, generous, and genuinely connected. University is not just where we studied; it is where many of us formed our ambitions, friendships, and sense of possibility.       

• Staying connected helps us support each other, open doors for the next generation, and keep that Auckland spirit alive wherever we are in the world.