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Our story

From frontier
to field.

Ryquo began with a shared conviction that frontier intelligence should take the shape of the field it serves.

Our founders arrived at that idea through research, engineering, and education. In research labs, they learned to question and test. In industry, they built systems that had to work in practice. In education, complex ideas had to become clear enough for people to use with judgment.

Those experiences became Ryquo's three branches: Research, Applications, and Education. Together, they connect advances in AI with the knowledge and practical demands of a discipline.

The founders

Tianyi Huang speaking at a lectern

Co-founder & CEO

Tianyi Huang

Tianyi leads Ryquo's strategy, research direction, and model development. His research has been presented at NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML, with oral at NeurIPS 2026 BiAlign, AAAI 2025 SIAI, and nomination at ACL 2026 GEM. He has conducted research at MIT CSAIL and worked as Cleanlab's youngest full-time ML engineer, developing methods to detect and correct errors in AI agents.

Alongside his work, Tianyi founded App-In Club, a global nonprofit expanding AI education and research. He has also served as App Inventor’s first Student Ambassador (now an AI Research Fellow), contributed to Google Summer of Code, and guest lectured at CMU on AI for Humanities.

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Michael Li in academic regalia beside a stone balustrade

Co-founder & CTO

Michael Li

Michael leads Ryquo's technical execution, translating research into specialized AI systems. His work at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute includes research in agentic systems and reinforcement learning, as part of his master's studies.

He earned his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, where he conducted research in the Social Reinforcement Learning Lab. He brings machine learning experience from Pinterest, Amazon, and earlier startups to Ryquo's research and engineering work.

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