Portrait in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Benjamin James Li

Currently a master’s student at UC Berkeley in Nuclear Engineering researching tritium breeding and extraction for new fission and fusion reactors, Ben is excited to help tackle the clean power and energy security problems of today’s world. Previously Ben was a staff software engineer at Square (2016-2023), where he joined as a new grad hire and left as tech lead of OS architecture for Android hardware products. Ben got his bachelor’s from Harvard College in Mathematics and Statistics (joint concentration) and his first master’s from Harvard SEAS in Engineering Sciences, both in 2016.

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